Happy Birthday Pete Seeger!

[Ross]

Ninety-three today

 

[killdeer43]

Happy Birthday to an American icon of the first order!

My Mom made it to 93 as well, so there's a number I can shoot for, too! :wink:

Joe

 

[12 string]

A half-century ago I saw and heard Pete Seeger for the first time and I also saw and heard 12 strang guitar for the first time and I've never been the same since.

Thanks, Pete.

' String

 

[SouthernSounds]

Happy B-Day, Mr Seeger!

"Rainbow Quest" featuring Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee was my first approach to him. And what an interesting guy he is.

Congrats to him & Lucky you, North American citizens...

All the best,
B.

 

[john_kidder]

I remember a bunch of us in a train in 1964 off to military college in the Regular Officer's Training Program, one with a guitar, and all us of singing Pete Seeger and other peacenik songs. "Where have all the soldiers gone?" we sang without any sense of irony.

He's a hero, no less. Happy Birthday.

 

[Frosty]

Rainbow Quest - what a treat that show was!

A national treasure, Mr. Seeger.

 

[Ross]

Pete is best known as a banjo player, but he also played 12-string. Did he play a Guild?

 

[12 string]

The only time I can recall Pete playing a Guild 12 was on the "Rainbow Quest" program when Judy Collins was a guest and he picked up her guitar. The first long-scale Pete Seeger model guitars were made by UK luthier/engineer G. Stanley Francis. Later on, similar guitars were made by Bruce Taylor of Weston CT. CF Martin is now making such guitars. In addition to the long scale, they also have very distinctive triangular sound holes.

This page should have a blueprint:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5518&start=60

Some nice pix here:

http://theunofficialmartinguitarforum.y ... 2SO?page=4

' Strang

 

[dreadnut]

Yeah, a real American icon Nothin' real fancy, just straight-up music, what an inspiration to so many.