How To Identify an Old, Unusual Guitar – Reverb

You have a guitar, or you’ve seen a guitar, and it’s an unusual one. You don’t know what it is. How do you find out more about it? We’re going to assume you’ve been lucky and there is at least a name on the headstock. Trouble is, that word or words on the head might actually be the cause of the confusion. How so? Because you’ve never heard of that name.

Just the other day, I happened to be looking into a guitar owned by a French guitarist I know, Jean Louis, who’s played guitar for a long time and has owned some fine instruments (including a Jacobacci Gimenes, a Gibson L-5CT George Gobel, and a Gretsch Van Eps seven-string, among many others).

He has a passion for Charlie Christian, as one of the pioneers of bebop, as well as those influenced by him, including Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow and others, and a related passion for guitars with Gibson’s early bar pickup, known as the Charlie Christian. When some years ago he saw a similar pickup on an unusual guitar that was for sale, he…

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