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Post by dreadnought28 on Dec 11, 2019 10:54:06 GMT
This past Saturday I drove down to the official launch of the new headquarters of The North American Guitar. Apart from a severe dent in my wallet (more later) it was a very enjoyable day with Stuart Ryan demonstrating guitars and playing a sublime afternoon set on his own Ryan Gerber guitar and another from our own Rosie's Turnstone. Both guitars were outstanding and tempting. (so were a lot more!!!) www.gerberguitars.com www.turnstoneguitar.co.ukI've bought and sold a few guitars through TNAG in the past but getting to their previous location in central London was a nightmare, driving being almost impossible and travelling by train allowing only one or, at the most, two guitars to be carried at a time. Now they are just a few miles off the M1 so it's motorway almost all the 200 miles from home. It's good to see a music store doing well because a lot of my favourite stores have closed down in the past few years on both sides of the pond. These include Mandolin Brothers, Hill Country Guitars and literally right now of course, unbelievably and very sadly, Ivor Mairants are shutting up shop after 61 years. Bought my first Shubb capo from them in the early 80s and numerous instruments, amps and equipment over the years. History lost solely because a lease expired, its awful! Several months ago I watched a TNAG video of Stuart Ryan playing a great version of Bill Withers' Lean on Me on a Brazilian Froggy Bottom H-12 and GAS hit me more severely than usual. Asking Stuart to play the tune in person was part of the reason for heading down. Fortunately the guitar itself had sold before I got a chance to play it. However, very unfortunately, it reappeared last week. Oh dear, my day out ended up somewhat expensive but the guitar is jaw droppingly wonderful. Judge for yourself: __________________
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Post by andyhowell on Dec 11, 2019 11:15:34 GMT
It's a while since I have been there but when I did get down the guitars that impressd me the most were two Froggys. lovely guitars.
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Post by martinrowe on Dec 11, 2019 11:34:22 GMT
Marvellous - thanks for sharing that dreadnought28 - I probably wouldn't have come across it otherwise. I'm surprised by how little his right hand moves.
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Post by dreadnought28 on Dec 11, 2019 15:56:12 GMT
It's a while since I have been there but when I did get down the guitars that impressd me the most were two Froggys. lovely guitars. Not that far from you now.
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Post by malcolm on Dec 12, 2019 4:58:31 GMT
Well done, Froggy Bottom guitars are indeed wonderful, I bought an F12 from Ivor Mairants back in 1997.
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Post by andyhowell on Dec 12, 2019 8:51:50 GMT
Well done, Froggy Bottom guitars are indeed wonderful, I bought an F12 from Ivor Mairants back in 1997. I played one of those at Ivor’s about then. The best ragtime guitar I’ve ever played.
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Post by dreadnought28 on Dec 12, 2019 18:44:27 GMT
I have 3, SJ, M and the just acquired H-12
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Post by andyhowell on Dec 13, 2019 8:56:07 GMT
I have 3, SJ, M and the just acquired H-12 Can you remember where you put them? ;-)
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