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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | What a treasure (and what a price...)
Here: web page Josh White's Guitar |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | In looking at the guitar, it seems to have been refurbished at the MS: newer bowl/top/bridge, etc.
Seems that the label is the only thing (perhaps the neck and case also) that is original...
Cool video though... |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Nice, but a bit rich-for-my-blood. |
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Location: Germany | This is how it looked 40 years ago:
Karl |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Nice Pic; thanks Karl ... and nice score; thanks Mike for posting.
Mike I think you are right on the refurbishing, but why do not restore it to the original "shine" ? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | And No Five-Point Bridge!
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Sound clip by Al Petteway playing the guitar is nice. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | So I'm guessing that when Josh wore out the first one they "upgraded" to the later bridge and such - which was considered to be a good thing?
Should have set the original aside and had a new one made - which would have made it a Josh owned but not "THE" original.
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Its like the joke in a British TV show whereby one of the characters is talking about a broom he's had for 25 years, he then adds I've changed the handle and head a few times over the years though :-) |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | If I had read a little more closely and been able to get the pic's to enlarge (having a bit of trouble using firefox on the laptop...it works fine but the MS Apps don't recognize it) I'd have seen that the original top is still there: so perhaps the original bowl is as well: just painted w/a textured finish now...too bad...
Yes Stephen, Al Petteway can certainly play...check out his playing on the Ryan they have for sale (ohh, the GAS...).
These folks have some fabulous guitars: Randy (Lanaki) first told me about them several years ago...they aren't far away: couple of hours... |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by dweezil:
Its like the joke in a British TV show whereby one of the characters is talking about a broom he's had for 25 years, he then adds I've changed the handle and head a few times over the years though :-) The Australian version is about Grandpa's axe which he's had for 50 years - he's changed the handle 8 times and the head 3 times. |
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Location: Right now? | I think it looked better with the five point bridge; why would they change it like that? I mean, considering he is a legend and all, they should have kept it as original as possible.
My mom turned all of us kids on to Josh White ... she has excellent taste in music.
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Originally posted by dweezil:
Its like the joke in a British TV show whereby one of the characters is talking about a broom he's had for 25 years, he then adds I've changed the handle and head a few times over the years though :-) Isn't that Trigger?
Also noted for always calling Rodney 'Dave'. One of the great characters on TV |
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