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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Found hanging on a music shop wall in Prague (Czech Rebublic) . . .
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Location: Upper Left USA | ...a bounced Czech? |
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Location: NJ | wow is that a davoli???????? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Not sure what it is. It wasn't for sale and try as I might, I couldn't convince the owner to part with it. There was insignia on the headstock and body with only a "J" and the inscription "Big Beat" on the matching detachable amp. |
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Location: closely held secret | 1963 Jolana Big Beat |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Thanks Waskel. There it is. Inasmuch as this area was formerly under the control of the Communists, it seems totally reasonable that it also served as a medium wave radio. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That is seriously cool. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Wow, a guitar with a pool rack and car sunvisor! :eek: |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I smell a reissue in the wind! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | It's cool in it's own right... but then the date sank in.. 1963!!! wow.. impressive. |
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Location: Tennessee | I think George Jetson played one of those in an episode. Seriously. |
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Location: enid, ok | ...and a very cool whammy bar! |
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Location: nashville | Legend has it the Big Beat was poised to take the music world by storm except for one small problem. The problem, The gutiar keep falling out of the stands and replacement part were not readily available. (Czech Mate) |
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Location: Indiana | If Paul Shaffer played guitar... |
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Location: GA USA | I czech'd the Eastwood site. They're not offering it yet. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | That's way cool!!
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Here's one for the odd files . . .