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  1. My mom and aunt sang C&W and played their guitars. My aunt had arthritis that crippled her to where she couldn't play anymore. This hurt her to the point where she couldn't stand looking at her guitar anymore. She sold it back in 1970 before anyone knew about it. Some snake S.O.B. conned her into selling it for $75 while she was vulnerable! It was a 1937 D-28! Today the...

  2. Hi, I'm Dave from Vancouver BC, Canada. Some great stories and information here.
  3. Willi is who told me my guitar is definitly a 1936 Trojan, he corrected me when I asked him what year my J-35 was. Ask me if I was just a bit ectatic?

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      military medals and gun collection. Some of those slime balls would wait until he went to get more, then pocket medals behind his back. One guy saw the Martin and knew my aunt's situation, so he came back when he knew nobody but my aunt was home. That snake SOB knew the guitar hurt her emotionally..so he conned her into believing he was "doing her a great service" by taking the old guitar that needed repairing because of not being played for a long time...and he would give her ...

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      $75 to boot! That was around 1969..that lecherous SOB is extremely lucky that I was not there at the time...because I would have kicked his sorry *** out the door...with my size 12 planted firmly up his keister...to boot!! Now every time I see a nice pre-war D-28, I think of that pathological pariah! Sorry for the rant, Dan. I hope life is treating you fair, without any care, way up there..so high in the air...holy smokes...that sounds like a line from a country or folk s...

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      song! Maybe we should collaborate! Sit around up there like John Deutschendorf and sing Rocky Mountain Hypoxia..LOL! It sounds like the oxygen down here is a little low! LOL! Enjoy your day, Dan.

       

      Cheers, dave

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