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Z||000000||Wayne Carver||01-18-2006||08:03 PM||wanelee@comcast.net||I was watching a Kevin Welch video on CMT and there was a dude playing a guitar with about six black push buttons located above the strings. It also had a white fretboard. This was an electric guitar not a steel guitar. Just wondered if anyone knew what it might be?||68.47.62.90||reg||
Z||000001||Steve Hinson||01-18-2006||08:25 PM||stevehinson@comcast.net||Was the guy tall and wearing a cowboy hat?If so,it was probably Mike Henderson...if so,there's no telling what it was...Mike has a bunch of those cheap guitars from the'60s-if it was him,it was a Del-Ray or something like that...<P>------------------<BR> <A HREF="http://home.comcast.net/~steves_garage" TARGET=_blank>http://home.comcast.net/~steves_garage</A>  <P>||68.52.154.224||reg||
Z||000002||Alvin Blaine||01-18-2006||08:32 PM||cowboytwang@yahoo.com||More than likly Mike Henderson with some sort of <A HREF="http://www.teiscotwangers.com/" TARGET=_blank>Teisco</A>.<P>I've had a few and still have one Silvertone version with a push button for each pickup.<BR> <IMG SRC="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y74/cowboytwang/silvertoneraceblu.jpg"> ||4.246.141.181||reg||
Z||000003||Jussi Huhtakangas||01-18-2006||10:38 PM||jussi.huhtakangas@boschrexroth.fi||That might have been a Hagstrom Deluxe, check here:  <A HREF="http://www.hagstrom.org.uk/visstory/Visitorglittersparkle.htm" TARGET=_blank>http://www.hagstrom.org.uk/visstory/Visitorglittersparkle.htm</A> <P>Pretty amazing website, huh!!?<P><font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Jussi Huhtakangas on 18 January 2006 at 10:45 PM.]</p></FONT>||194.39.218.10||reg||
Z||000004||Alvin Blaine||01-19-2006||06:01 AM||cowboytwang@yahoo.com||Cool site Jussi,<BR>I forgot about the GOYA's with the white MOT necks.||4.246.126.236||reg||
Z||000005||Lee Warren||01-19-2006||05:34 PM||ukx@aol.com||Hi Jussi,<BR>WOW great site!<BR>I have a 2 pickup blue sparkle 6 string that I love.<BR>There's a small picture of it on my website at <A HREF="http://www.leewarren.com/geargallery.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.leewarren.com/geargallery.html</A> <BR>Lee<BR>p.s. I had the pleasure to visit your beautiful country many years back, and saw some INCREDIBLE musicians like Jukka Tolonen.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Lee Warren on 19 January 2006 at 05:35 PM.]</p></FONT>||70.27.8.248||reg||
Z||000006||Wayne Carver||01-19-2006||05:46 PM||wanelee@comcast.net||Those are some neat guitars on the links provided. It did look kinda like the Goya's.<BR>I did a little reading on the internet and noticed a lot of cheaper guitars from Italy and other countries that were sold through department stores that had a lot of buttons and decorations etc. They look really cool so why were they considered cheap guitars? Did they not sound as good as Fenders & Gibson's?||68.47.62.90||reg||
Z||000007||Papa Joe Pollick||01-19-2006||06:47 PM||jepollick@sbcglobal.net||A friend of mine bought a "new" one just lately.Don't remember the builders name or web site,but I think he's in Canada.He has a bunch of different modals,Many of them with a lot of push buttons.They ain't cheap either..I was not at all impressed with the one my friend bought.Oh well,To each etc. PJ||70.236.146.1||reg||
Z||000008||Dave Boothroyd||01-19-2006||11:53 PM||dave@gypseyrace.freeserve.co.uk||There was also the Vox Organ/Guitar that made electronic organ notes on a row of buttons above the strings.<BR>Brian Jones of the Stones had one of those- it was the polygonal shaped one- usually white.<BR><P>------------------<BR>Cheers!<BR>Dave<P>||81.79.149.184||reg||
Z||000009||Jussi Huhtakangas||01-20-2006||12:05 AM||jussi.huhtakangas@boschrexroth.fi||Hagstrom guitars were very common here in the 60's and 70's, due to the fact that American instruments were hard to get and expensive. Most of the electrics sound really good, although I can't tell you anything about those push buttons, I've never really played one myself. A friend of mine owned a 70's Jimmy D'Aquisto model hollowbody which was a decent looking and sounding guitar, although Jimmy D'Aquisto himself wasn't happy with the way Hagstrom ended up producing guitars he designed for them. <BR>There's an Italian guitar brand Maranello, which produces similar swanky pearloid electric guitars now ( no push buttons though ), our guitar player has one, it actually sounds pretty good. I believe though that they're made in Korea and not Italy. Here:  <A HREF="http://www.italiaguitars.com/guitarDetail_outer.php" TARGET=_blank>http://www.italiaguitars.com/guitarDetail_outer.php</A> <P>Hey Lee, you would love our beautiful country now, it's 23 celsius degrees below the freezing point and the wind is blowing all the way straight from Siberia   <IMG SRC="http://steelguitarforum.com/smile.gif"><font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Jussi Huhtakangas on 20 January 2006 at 12:05 AM.]</p></FONT>||194.39.218.10||reg||
Z||000010||Michael Miller||01-20-2006||08:14 AM||msmiller1165@cs.com||Papa Joe, Could this be the site?<BR> <A HREF="http://www.myrareguitars.com/Eastwood.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.myrareguitars.com/Eastwood.html</A> ||137.54.66.251||reg||
Z||000011||Papa Joe Pollick||01-20-2006||08:32 AM||jepollick@sbcglobal.net||Yes Sir,Looks like the one..Wierd suckers, ain't they?I don't remember what model he has,but it's got 6 or more buttons accross the top. Thanks for trackin down that site..<BR>PJ<P>------------------<BR>Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body,but rather to skid in broadside,thoroughly used up,totally worn out,and loudly proclaiming:"WOW,what a ride!"<BR>||70.236.146.1||reg||