nmiller
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You may have seen one of Carlo Greco's guitars floating around the internet in the past 6 or 12 months; it's basically a resurrection of the George Barnes Acousti-Lectric design but with Carlo's uniquely flamboyant visual styling. The guitar was on Reverb for a while; then it ended up at a Guitar Center, which kept lowering the price until finally I bit the bullet. It should ship today, and I hope to get it by the end of the week.
In the meantime, I'm trying to gather all the info I can about the original Guild Barnes model. Hans said in his book that "The acoustic sound would come out through the cut-out areas around the pickups"; does this mean that it had at least a passable acoustic tone and volume? Were these ever shipped to dealers like other models or were they exclusively a custom-order model? How many were built in total? I've read that Carlo built the original prototype for Barnes; did he built all the others as well, or were they more of an assembly-line product?
In the meantime, I'm trying to gather all the info I can about the original Guild Barnes model. Hans said in his book that "The acoustic sound would come out through the cut-out areas around the pickups"; does this mean that it had at least a passable acoustic tone and volume? Were these ever shipped to dealers like other models or were they exclusively a custom-order model? How many were built in total? I've read that Carlo built the original prototype for Barnes; did he built all the others as well, or were they more of an assembly-line product?