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Thread #10050   Message #67129
Posted By: Rick Fielding
31-Mar-99 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: What make of guitar in the movie AIRPLANE?
Subject: RE: What make of guitar in the movie AIRPLANE?
Wasn't it a generic classical? The actual singing Nun played a Goya G17, as did Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music. Other great movie guitars: Groucho Marx strums a Gibson L 5 in a canoe (very well, I might add) and then throws it at a duck.(it has turned into a Stella by then)...Keith Carradine occasionally plays a fancy 70s Mossman in the incredibly bad Woody bio-pic. Bound For Glory......Roger E Mosely runs his hands back and forth on an original Stella 12 string (or a Marc Silber type re-issue) while the actor playing Blind Lemon fakes flashy modern hot lead playing on an old Stella 6 string in the equally awful (well, maybe not QUITE as awful) Leadbelly pic. Someone named Sugarcane Harris actually does the pseudo-Huddie Ledbetter playing.

One little bit of useless info Shambles, comes from one of "your guys". A lady brought me a George Formby brand banjo uke a few years ago and asked me to sell it for her. It was personally autographed by the lad himself. I thought this would make it pretty valuable, until I checked it out. Appears that Mr. Formby (or his people) signed EVERY uke that was manufactured under his name and many thousands were made! I got 50 bucks for her!

Rick