There stood a '55 Gibson Country Western. She asked her son to go get it and he dug it out of the back of a closet. I finally asked the old lady where the Gibson was. I opened the case and there stood an old Alvarez. In the dark I drove to the garage sale and looked for the guitar. Well, Saturday morning came and I couldn't sleep for whatever reason so I was up early and decided to go check the guitar out since I wasn't doing anything else. I gave up at that point thinking that I didn't want it that bad. It really peeved me when he wasn't willing to go look and see. I called the home and the guy didn't know what model it was or how old it was or even if it was a flattop or not. There was a garage sale in a local small town for an "Old Gibson Guitar" that peaked my interest in the local paper. If you are interested in that story, go the the Vintage Corner and look up the posting for "My Little Martin". Of all the towns in WV, my friends picked the one that was most likely to know about Martin guitars!Īctually, I AM one of the people who had amazing luck finding a great old Martin. Many of you may know that Elkins, WV is the where they hold the Augusta Music events each year. I asked them what town they chose to go to.
Anyway, they drove three hours to a town they had picked off a map only to go down Main Street and see three Martin guitar dealers right there! They drove three hours back and complained to me about what happened. I guess they figured that they would not know what they had in West Virginia.I don't know why. They figured they would go down into "the bowels" of West Virginia and find such a deal. At the time, we all lived in Pittsburgh, PA. I also heard that Joan Baez got her 1929 0-45 for just a few hundred dollars (I can't recall the exact figure) sometime in the mid-60's.įinally, I had some friends back in the Seventies that were determined to find an Old Martin for cheap in a pawnshop or something. The prices were $700 and $900! But, I was a student and that may as well have been $9000 to me. I recall walking into The Music Inn in New York City back in 1969 and seeing two herringbone D-28's for sale. The lucky ones mostly are the people who got interested in vintage instruments early. The neck was trash.the pot was worth 5,000 dollars. I knew a guy who went out on trash night and saw a broken banjo neck sticking out of a garbage can.
I am sure some of them are true and we all wish it happened to us. The finder has been convinced to sell the D28 as is and buy his GF the new Taylor of her choice. Martin supplied the correct replacement guard and the guitar now looks as new and plays nicely with good action.
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I went to my friend's shop and looked at the D28, which must have spent it's life in the case under the bed, as it was immaculate but for a disintegrating black pickguard that had cracked straight through and not cracked the top. He bought it on name recognition, not knowing it was an unbelievable deal and asked my friend if he'd been foolish or gotten a good deal. One was a Harmony archtop in good shape for $25 and the other, in an old Gibson case, was the D28, also $25 Since his girlfriend plays guitar, he on impulse, stopped to see what was there. The fellow, who doesn't play guitar, saw a lady carrying out two cases from the house to the sale table at her yard sale. In June, a friend who has a guitar shop called me to tell me to come look at the '68 D28 a customer had just bought at a yard sale for $25