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| From | Dave Seaman <seamand@upmc.edu> |
| Subject | Researching old guitars |
| Date | Mon, 01 May 2006 13:07:25 -0400 |
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I have an electric guitar that I bought about 25+ years ago for $50 from
some guy I knew in high school. It kind of looks like an old Mosrite. I
always liked the look of it, but wanted to juice it up to get a hotter sound
and do some other enhancements. I never figured it was worth anything, and
was about to do a Frankenstein number on it, when a guitarist friend of mine
suggested I look it up on the internet to see if it is worth anything.
Turns out it's a Univox Hi Flier, a guitar which gained some notoriety as an
instrument that Kurt Cobain used in his early days.
I took it into a few guitar stores that buy and sell, and got offers of
$3-400 for it. Pretty cool for a guitar that I thought was junk.
(Actually, junk is too harsh a word - it has it's good points, for instance
a very easy action, and it's super light weight. Plus I love the reverse
cutaway, which looks good on me since I play a right handed guitar in the
left handed orientation, i.e. I don't re-string it for lefties...)
So I decided to keep it and not mess with it.
<<<Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:13:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lauree McArdle <laureemc@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: need help identifying guitar
...It's also been determined that it's a classical acoustic guitar.... it's
been fascinating on the search on gathering more info. It's probably not
worth anything, but the story is fun!>>>
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