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    100th Birthday of the Last Surviving of the "Kalamazoo Gals" who built Gibson's Guitars during WWII

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    John, this was just lovely to watch! Thanks for all that you poured into this project from the start—from following your hunch to celebrating the lives and work of all the Gals.

    You’ve given the world several truly beautiful stories in the process, not the least of which, in my opinion,  is the one about the Curious Professor Who Lets His Light Shine.

    Well done—and congrats!

    ‘60 Bird available

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    3 hours ago, E-minor7 said:

    Yes - a more traditional faded burst. Unfortunately they never demoed that one, it seems. 

    That ‘61 sold more than a year ago, I believe. I’m not sure the shop posted demos back then.  David owns the shop as of a few months ago, though, and I think he gets a preliminary demo up as soon as something special lands. 
    I’m out of town at the moment—if it’s still there next week, I’ll have to check it out.
     

    ‘60 Bird available

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    My local shop just got in a sweet looking 1960 Hummingbird. The owner posted a clip to FB but hasn’t posted it to youtube or his shop site yet.  
     

    If you’re interested, look up Acoustic Corner (Black Mountain, NC) on Facebook to view the clip, or give the shop a call. No affiliation with David, the owner, but I’ve worked with him several times and highly recommend him.

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    Big Blue

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    11 hours ago, Buc McMaster said:

    Well that's a cute little guitar, Anne..........yours?

    Yep, it’s a Rainsong Parlor that does what it’s supposed to, which is to render the weather forecast meaningless, to let me forget about it when left in a cold or hot vehicle, to leave on a stand in winter, etc and so forth…

    New Generation Collection

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    3 hours ago, Twang Gang said:

    Great story Ann.  I have owned a guitar with some crazing on it, but never saw one actually happen before my very eyes!  I have one correction though - that store on Milwaukee in Niles was "Karnes Music", not Kramers.  I know because I bought my first electric guitar there in 1965 (a Gibson 125 thinline cutaway) see my Avatar.  My family went there fairly often as my Mom and sister both played piano and they had a large sheet music selection there.  I never learned to read music for guitar, but did pick up a few song books there with the chords shown above the notes.  I grew up in Northbrook - where did you grow up?

    That’s right—of course it was Karnes! (The child inside stored it correctly, but the old lady fumbled the retrieval. 🤦🏻‍♀️)
     

     Lived in Rolling Meadows until I was 15, when my parents bought a campground an hour north of Madison, WI. With 4 kids in high school, they had a ready-made work crew. That was a shock to the system, but that li’l guitar was my lifesaver.

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    New Generation Collection

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    36 minutes ago, fortyearspickn said:

    I didn't say Gibson touted their LG1 as a student guitar.   I'm sure they didn't -  being one of the premier guitar producers, their brand would have suffered if they had...  My first good guitar was an LG1 in '64 which was around $130.   That was the basis of my stating it was around 5x more expensive.  

    This is interesting. My dad brought home a new ‘64 LG-1 because my then-8 yo brother wanted to take lessons. I was 7, but I remember my dad’s excitement about getting a student guitar for him. My dad knew zero about guitars when he walked into the music store next to his office.  (Kramers, on Milwaukee Avenue in…Niles, IL. The details a kid remembers!)

    Somebody there most definitely touted it as a “student” guitar. 
     

    I’ve told this story before, I think, but the February day he brought it home was the day we all learned about crazing. Apparently, he bought the thing on his lunch hour and stored it in the trunk of our car. So when came home at dinner time to impress us all, we gathered around as he opened the case. We oohed and aahed… and within minutes, we heard a quiet snapping and watched little spider-y lines run across the shiney, orange top. My dad’s face went white, and he was sure the guitar was shattered. A few days later, he told us he’d checked with the store and…learned that the damage was cosmetic only.  He relayed in great detail the physics behind what we saw and heard that first evening, and then, wiser and a bit subdued, he turned to his four kids and wife and pronounced “The moral of the story is, ‘Never leave a guitar in your trunk in winter.’”

    Me, I fell in love with it at first sight, and during the 50+ years I played it, I sometimes referred to it as a teacher guitar, because I was the only student in that relationship.

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    Swimming pools and guitars

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    2 hours ago, uncle fester said:

    Thanks both of you,  good ideas - makes sense.  Maybe i'll check out a rainsong...  never looked in that direction before

     

    I have a RainSong parlor for all the riskier playing situations, and, unlike beater wood guitars I have owned for such occasions, I love its sound and playability and often reach for it in the non-risky situations, too. (Plus, the parlor size is great for traveling.)


    Beater guitars don’t work for me— I still need to like what’s in my hands and coming into my ears, even if I’m just noodling around outside, etc.

    My two cents…

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    Favorite songs that you like to play

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    My lists have fluctuated over time, of course, but at the moment, I’m stuck to:

    TVZ’s Harm’s Swift Way and Tecumseh Valley

    Prine’s Far From Me, I Remember Everything, Mexican Home

    Patty Griffin’s Mother of God

    And, as usual, an assortment of originals come ‘round for a closer look.

     

     

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