Just inherited another Guild - Sad - Happy
My best friend passed away last year.
We started playing guitars together 45 years ago in high school.
I just got word she left me the guitar we picked out together, back around 1974, IIRC it's a D-44 with OHSC.
I always thought the back and sides were pearwood, but googe indicates Guild switched to maple 1972 or so.
When it arrives I'll post pics & SN for help identifying the wood.
Does anyone know whether the label will indicate the wood in the model number, like D-44P, or D-44M?
Anyone know why Guild ended this apparently unique pearwood run?
All I know is her D-44 has luscious tone and the spruce has beautiful tight grain with those tightly-spaced lines running perpendicular to the grain.
This Guild really sparkles in appearance and tone, but maybe to tone I lover here is from maple not pear.
I played it a couple years ago and it was in mint condition.
She sort of "over-cherished" it so it rarely escaped from its case, let alone her house.
I think she considered it too nice and valuable to play, so she left her 1970 Yammie red-label out to play.
When she bought it I had a Guild D-40, but from day one I strongly preferred the tone of her D-44 to my D-40.
In 1977 I sold my D-40 to buy a new D-55, which I still have today.
I also scored an F-212XL with OHSC for around $350 a few years back.
Three killer 1970s Guilds, all made in Westerly, RI!
That's what I call a real "Westerly Collection".:biggrin-new:
Gosh, I'm one lucky guy, though I'd give them all up tenfold to have my dear friend back.
My best friend passed away last year.
We started playing guitars together 45 years ago in high school.
I just got word she left me the guitar we picked out together, back around 1974, IIRC it's a D-44 with OHSC.
I always thought the back and sides were pearwood, but googe indicates Guild switched to maple 1972 or so.
When it arrives I'll post pics & SN for help identifying the wood.
Does anyone know whether the label will indicate the wood in the model number, like D-44P, or D-44M?
Anyone know why Guild ended this apparently unique pearwood run?
All I know is her D-44 has luscious tone and the spruce has beautiful tight grain with those tightly-spaced lines running perpendicular to the grain.
This Guild really sparkles in appearance and tone, but maybe to tone I lover here is from maple not pear.
I played it a couple years ago and it was in mint condition.
She sort of "over-cherished" it so it rarely escaped from its case, let alone her house.
I think she considered it too nice and valuable to play, so she left her 1970 Yammie red-label out to play.
When she bought it I had a Guild D-40, but from day one I strongly preferred the tone of her D-44 to my D-40.
In 1977 I sold my D-40 to buy a new D-55, which I still have today.
I also scored an F-212XL with OHSC for around $350 a few years back.
Three killer 1970s Guilds, all made in Westerly, RI!
That's what I call a real "Westerly Collection".:biggrin-new:
Gosh, I'm one lucky guy, though I'd give them all up tenfold to have my dear friend back.
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