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Thread #47944 Message #2695783
Posted By: GUEST,T.Gill
07-Aug-09 - 05:59 PM
Thread Name: Haruo 12 String - What do we know?
Subject: RE: Haruo 12 String - What do we know?
I bought my first T. Haruo in 1979 in Singapore for around $150-180US. I was 15, and an exchange student in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The guitar traveled and lived with me until 1993, when I was "carjacked" at 2am after a gig in Chicago. They went straight for the backseat: in retrospect, the thieves probably followed me from the gig. I pulled the keys from the ignition and started to run after them- my passenger yelled sense into me and I stopped- but the Haruo was gone.
Nothing else sounded like that guitar.
I believe it was actually a Model 10 six string- though in the web info I have found, people have only talked about Model 10 twelve string guitars.
Then in 2007, on a whim, I checked Ebay and bought a Model 50- it was my first Ebay purchase, and I won. In 2008, I found a Model 60 (with the 3 piece D35 back). I play them both, all the time. New friends are consistently stunned by the Haruo's sound and feel.
So I always wonder if a Model 10 six string will turn up someplace...
Thank you all for keeping the Haruo info flowing. Peace.