old guitars - now we know

Subject: old guitars - now we know
From: leeneia
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 06:04 PM

I've been interested in making a simple hurdy-gurdy for a long time. (See http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/ if you're interested.)

I've been collecting parts, but I'm stumped as to what to use for the top. I thought the back of a ruined guitar might work, so I asked my brother, the sophisticated and worldly musician in the family, where wrecked guitars wind up. His response follows:
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Located on the shores of Lake Micelbidder in Western Belgium, the Peter Townsend Home for Wrecked Guitars is one the the world's outstanding centers for guitar rehabilitation.

Abused, neglected and abandoned guitars from all over the world come here to take advantage of the top-flight facility and expert care offered by PTHFWG"s full-time, in-residence staff of guitar technicians, refinishers and rebuilders.

They provide rejuvenation and restoration of the physical guitar, as well as psychological and spiritual counseling and therapy for those guitars exposed to especially cruel and unusual trauma (R&R, Bluegrass, etc.), all at no cost to the guitars themselves.

The center's goal is complete healing, not just for the body of the guitar, but for the neck and head as well, resulting in a complete, fully self-realized guitar, refreshed and ready to re-enter the creative mainstream.

Funding for the center is provided by the Peter Townsend International Protocol for Guitar Rehabilitation (PTIPFGR). Ratified in 2005 by 182 countries, it mandates that a portion of every dollar spent on gas station burritos worldwide go to support the work of PTHFWG.

Of course if they are too far gone they simply throw them away.
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Now we know.

Subject: RE: old guitars - now we know
From: Bert
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 11:37 PM

Actually there is a lost graveyard in the jungles of deepest darkest Africa.

Subject: RE: old guitars - now we know
From: leeneia
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 01:32 PM

That's too far away for me to get a top for hurdy gurdy from there.

Subject: RE: old guitars - now we know
From: M.Ted
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 07:30 PM

A person I once knew (currently in a witness protection program) has pointed out that there are actually more of some vintage guitars than there were new ones--He never understood why people weren't more appreciative of his efforts, which, he felt, were merely preservation and restoration, carried a step farther.