We reset and reglued it properly. The original Setup.It plays now with awesome easy playing action . It up and revealed the awesome original finish on this guitar and just It out.I bought this Airline Grand Concert Guitar for parts.andĪgain, I just couldn't bring myself to let this one go.LOL.I cleaned It gives a great desciption of what I have. He thought that was good, and recommended I check out a tutorial on-line, 'You can learn about anything: advanced calculus and playing the guitar.' I knew just what I want to learn, but we will see if there is any talent in my fingers.īelow is a posting about an Airline guitar for sale on the Web. Jan sent a text to our youngest son who is a good musician about a water and sand play structure she found, and mentioned that we had picked up my repaired instrument. So now that my guitar is restored, I am going to have to learn to play. Regardless which it is, listing on eBay and Google run anywhere for $350 to $500. Back in the times before The Guitar Center chain and others (I would go into Pryor's Music Store in Visalia when I was a kid and wanted to play), department stores were the places to buy sports gear, musical instruments, vinyl records - both long plays and 45's - they were a general purpose mercantile.Ī close up on the catalog page shows two guitars that could be mine: one for $21.50, and the other $52.50. To my surprise, it is a classic that was sold by Montgomery Wards catalog stores in the 1960's. I didn't have any idea about the Airline brand, so I looked it up on the Web. I commented that I should get the guitar fixed. Once we moved in and unpacked in Colorado, it was kept standing against the wall in the 'Girls' Room', the extra bedroom where our granddaughters sleep. I had insisted that we not throw away the guitar while we were preparing to sell our house in Annapolis, so it was pack and shipped with the rest of our belongings. After getting married, I didn't pick up the guitar very often, but it followed us each with each move: from our first apartment in Fresno, to one in Clovis, to Oregon for graduate school, and then to my first job in Fresno, back to Oregon for almost 18 years, and then to Maryland for seven, and now in Fort Collins. Phil taught me a couple of songs while we roomed together - me using his six-string, while he showed me what to do while playing on his 12-string. My college roommate from the last year before I was married gave me his acoustic guitar as a wedding present.

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