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#vintageguitars

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Prince of Northbridge
On the occasion of starting a new, AWESOME job on Monday & thus having an income again, I decided to splurge a little on a gift for myself 😁 this lovely 1962 Höfner 172 had been on my watch list of "guitars I can't afford" for a while & it was actually extremely reasonably priced - particularly considering MY GOD, LOOK AT IT! 🤩🤩🤩 ~650€, original case included 😊

- and yes, it also plays & sounds wonderful 💛

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#guitars #VintageGuitars #music #Hofner
Full view of the instrument on a stand in front of my sofa
Closer shot of the body
Slightly different angle on the body
Close-up of the lovely, flawless slightly pale red vinyl body finish, as well as the piping-like bounding tracing the outline of the shape
#hofner
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Mike Babyak

The great clean-up continues. Box after box after box of photos, letters, report cards. Lord, how much you can accumulate.

But I did find some gems. My Kent 12-string. 1973. I would have been around 16 here. Naturally, posing in front of Hendrix. I'm very surprised I didn't have my left arm thrown forward like the poster.

Old photo of teenager with long dark hair playing a guitar left-handed. You can see part of a Jimi Hendrix poster behind him, with his two hands and the head of the guitar visible.
#guitar#vintageguitars#lefty
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Blake Leyh

I visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC on Saturday, the "largest art museum in the Americas." The musical instrument collection is always inspiring. I took many photos.

Pictured here: A Trumpet Call Harmonica, Les Paul prototype recording model serial no. 001, a 1780 coiled brass hunting horn, and a Gravikord.

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A Trumpet Call Harmonica. Looks like a regular harmonica with five trumpet-bells sprouting from the back. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504471
Les Paul prototype recording model, serial no. 001. An oblique angle of the guitar showing the XLR output and the honey burst finish with tiger striping. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/843062
A "Trompe de Chasse" coiled brass hunting horn from 1760 suspended against a red background, with several other horns behind it. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/502364
The body of a Gravikord, an electric 24-string harp based on the West African Kora designed by Bob Grawi. It looks like a Martian lobster. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/732575
#museum#MusicalInstruments#VintageGuitars
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Mike Babyak

#Guitar a day. 66 #Guild #Starfire. I bought this in the mid-90s for $200. It was cheap because the kid who owned it had “refinished” it using a brush and one of those varnish/stain combos. It looked like someone had globbed melted chocolate all over it. I took it to #RyanGadow, who did a great job of resurrecting it. The #humbuckers are from an early 70s #LesPaul. Replaced the broken #Bigsby tailpiece with the harp one you see in the photo.

Guild Starfire guitar. Semi-HollowBody guitar with f-holes, two pickups and 4 tone/volume controls. Silver tailpiece in the shape of a harp. Finish is blonde.
#mastomusic#VintageGuitars
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