West R Lee
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: ) Keep that up and you'll end up keeping her. Good thing you didn't put some JP 80/20's or "Silk and Steel" on her.....she'd be off the market!
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Scratch
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Dang it all. This is soooo tempting...
West R Lee
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Go Kenny Go!!!! Then maybe I can get mine back. : )
West
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Scratch
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Wish I could, Jim. Too dang many priority bills at present.
wileypickett
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Picked it up this afternoon! Drove up this past Monday (it was only 40 minutes north of me, so how could I NOT go check it out?!) and by Tuesday morning I'd made up my mind to buy it. Harry was a pleasure to deal with (his dog Fenway too!) and Marblehead, Massachusetts, is always a lovely place to be.
As the pictures suggest, the guitar is in spectacular shape, and it sounds as it looks -- can't imagine why anyone would sell it frankly!
Thanks Harry!
Glenn
As the pictures suggest, the guitar is in spectacular shape, and it sounds as it looks -- can't imagine why anyone would sell it frankly!
Thanks Harry!
Glenn
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Hey Glenn, CONGRATS!!! There's nothing like a DV72!! Great to get the news here on this thread, but you'll still have to do a NGD and, of course, photos!! :encouragement::encouragement:
Nicely orchestrated...both of you! It is a lovely thing to witness, the proper transfer of a quality instrument from one caretaker to another. Harry, you can be certain that guitar is in good hands. And we eagerly anticipate you fulfilling your quest for that 'burst D-55.
Thanks, Chris. I am very pleased the '72 is in the hands of a fellow LTG'er.
I'm still kicking myself over letting the Westerly D55 burst that I had get away -- but it needed a complete fret job, and I wasn't willing to pay the asking price plus the fret work.
I'm still kicking myself over letting the Westerly D55 burst that I had get away -- but it needed a complete fret job, and I wasn't willing to pay the asking price plus the fret work.
Aristera
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Glenn,
What a small world. I believe your DV-72 was a stablemate of my DV-62. They were well cared for. Thanks go out to Geo for starting a whole lot of happiness.
James
What a small world. I believe your DV-72 was a stablemate of my DV-62. They were well cared for. Thanks go out to Geo for starting a whole lot of happiness.
James
West R Lee
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wileypickett
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Hey James,
Yeah, it's in gorgeous shape! But tell me more about its history if you please! Would love to know more ~~
Thanks!
Glenn
Yeah, it's in gorgeous shape! But tell me more about its history if you please! Would love to know more ~~
Thanks!
Glenn
The DV72 stays with LTG and stays in MA! Nice!
walrus
walrus
Hey Glenn,
I was the second owner of that fine DV72. It was purchased by the original owner from "Guitar House of Tulsa"..... The original owner lives in Oklahoma City. I bought the guitar and brought it to Texas,,, just South of Fort Worth. As you can see the guitar has almost no play wear. It never left my house while I owned it and was lightly strummed and fingerpicked mostly. The original owner said he played it very little which was evident by the frets showing no sign of deterioration. Harry was number three and you are the forth owner. I hope you enjoy the guitar as much as I did. It was a hard decision to let it go but maintaining so many acoustic guitars had become quite a chore. I'm down to a more reasonable number now.
Congrats on joining the DV72 fraternity. Very few will ever get to own one.
George
wileypickett
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Thanks so much for the info George!
Some don't care, but I love knowing where an instrument has been before it landed in my hands.
When I was at our old family home in New Jersey looking after my mom a couple years ago, a woman in the next town over put up a craigslist ad for a Guild F50. I went to take a look. It had belonged to her husband, who had died a few years before; she was moving from their house to an apartment and needed to get rid of stuff.
The guitar case was covered with stickers from all over the world, and I asked her about them. She took me to what had been her husband's music room. He had worked for U.S. Airways as the company's entertainment coordinator. He would hire musicians, mainly from NYC, to perform at these annual ritzy soirees that the airline threw for their top ranking muckety-mucks, which took place in a different country every year.
Besides hiring the musicians, the husband also played rhythm guitar in whatever band he put together. On the wall of his music room were photos from those events, spanning decades, and there was the F50 (which I bought) in action, backing all sorts of people, most of whom I didn't recognize.
But among the ones I did know was Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger") and the great jazz bassist, Milt Hinton. Besides being an exceptional musician, Hinton was also an amateur photographer and his iconic photos of the jazz greats he worked with over many decades are well known.
The fact that this guitar was used in a band with Hinton puts me just two degrees of separation from Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway, Ben Webster and such!
(The wife also told me that her husband NEVER checked the guitar, but always took it on the plane with him -- no problem since he was an employee of the company I guess.)
I normally clean up the used stuff I buy, but I left all those stickers on the case!
Glenn//.
Some don't care, but I love knowing where an instrument has been before it landed in my hands.
When I was at our old family home in New Jersey looking after my mom a couple years ago, a woman in the next town over put up a craigslist ad for a Guild F50. I went to take a look. It had belonged to her husband, who had died a few years before; she was moving from their house to an apartment and needed to get rid of stuff.
The guitar case was covered with stickers from all over the world, and I asked her about them. She took me to what had been her husband's music room. He had worked for U.S. Airways as the company's entertainment coordinator. He would hire musicians, mainly from NYC, to perform at these annual ritzy soirees that the airline threw for their top ranking muckety-mucks, which took place in a different country every year.
Besides hiring the musicians, the husband also played rhythm guitar in whatever band he put together. On the wall of his music room were photos from those events, spanning decades, and there was the F50 (which I bought) in action, backing all sorts of people, most of whom I didn't recognize.
But among the ones I did know was Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger") and the great jazz bassist, Milt Hinton. Besides being an exceptional musician, Hinton was also an amateur photographer and his iconic photos of the jazz greats he worked with over many decades are well known.
The fact that this guitar was used in a band with Hinton puts me just two degrees of separation from Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway, Ben Webster and such!
(The wife also told me that her husband NEVER checked the guitar, but always took it on the plane with him -- no problem since he was an employee of the company I guess.)
I normally clean up the used stuff I buy, but I left all those stickers on the case!
Glenn//.