Nightingale #44

Hi, I'm new to this forum. I was looking for information on the Guild Nightingale, since I own one. Mine is #44. The back of the headstock reads:

JL000044
MADE IN U.S.A.
I-88

I thought that this model was more common but I've read that only 82 were made. I bought mine in Barcelona (Spain) at the early nineties, not sure about the year. I remember that the shop had a catalog with the nightbirds and the nightingale as a variant on them. At that time you could see this model in the hands of Buddy Guy on an ad in Guitar Player magazine. I think it was a strings ad. Also, in an interview in the same mag Buddy Guy tells about B.B.King joking "so you got a small Lucile...". He also explains that this model was made for Eric Clapton who had #1 and that he had #2.

Mine is exactly as seen in http://nightbirdpages.home.comcast.net/proto2.htm except that the tuners in mine are Grover. Here go a couple photos:

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Well, thats all by now. I'll take more pictures and post them another day.

Don't get to see too many of those! Thank you for posting the photos and history of it, and welcome to the forum.

Thanks Nadia - lovely guitar - I'd dearly like to have one as a match for my Nightbird.

Welcome to the Forum.

Welcome, Nadia! Your Nightingale is gorgeous! What sort of music do you make with her?

Post well! Post often!

I've wanted one forever!!! Lucky!

Welcome! You own one of the Holy Grail Guilds.

This is one of the oldest revived necro threads ever...:biggrin-new:...kudos guys!

bowenite60 said:

I've wanted one forever!!! Lucky!

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Does that mean you found one?

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

Wow!!! That is a very old post. It was highlighted as if new this morning. I am using my phone....so that date is micro!!! Lol.

Indeed, I didn’t notice. So old, the the OP is no longer registered.

I have all of the Nightbird Pages files. I was going to try and restore it but the code is just so awful that it would take me too much time.

Here's the page being referenced in the original post: http://www.gad.net/GAD/Nightbird/proto2.htm

Pic of said guitar: