[HANASHIR:2838] Re: guitar shopping

[LSalvay <LSalvay...>]

When you're searching for the "love of your life" in guitars, don't forget to 
visit pawn shops. You might find a real treasure. My husband, quite by 
chance, happened into a local pawn shop and found a "vintage" (late 1970s, I 
think) Larrivee, which was priced at about half its actual value. The guitar 
came with a very beat-up hard shell case, and it reeked of cigarette smoke 
(if only guitars could talk...the stories they'd tell...), but was otherwise 
in excellent condition -- and has a mellower, richer sound than I've heard 
from any Martin.

In fact, my husband called the Jean-Claude Larrivee company in British 
Columbia to verify the guitar's origin and vintage -- and they offered to buy 
it from him, sight unseen, for more than he paid for it! (Of course, he 
declined.)

The point is, sometimes the best new guitar isn't a new guitar at all -- like 
many of us musicians, the good ones tend to get better with age!

Linda Salvay

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