The only guitar I have ever bought.
It’s true. I’ve been playing guitar for over 10 years now, (although you might not be able to tell) and I have luckily never had to buy a guitar. Last September, on a visit to Asheville during a Newfangled work retreat, I came across this beauty in an antique store on Lexington Ave. in downtown Asheville. When I lived in Asheville, Lexington was my favorite street to hang out on. I’d go to Bobo Gallery, bar, Izzy’s Coffee, and the sweet used bookstore across the street from Izzy’s. When I went into the antique store on this particular day, I told my friends I was with that I was hoping to find either an old Spanish guitar or “an old small guitar.” I was shocked when I came across this Silvertone. It was marked at $110, and I was able to talk them down a whole $10, although it could have been more if I had paid with cash. Anyways, I love this guitar, and I would still like a Spanish guitar. Maybe it will come around one day soon. Below is a video of me playing Swing Low Sweet Chariot on it a few months ago when I was sick.
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able you rock at guitar i like hear me when it rains as well
I just picked up one of these little parlors as a trade for a setup on another guitar.
Having a little difficulty dating it, but it’s the same guitar as yours.
Were you able to date your? Platonically, of course.
thx. Dan
Mr Rohr: Thanks for the note!
Dan: Ha! I was able to get pretty close. It’s been a couple of years, but I had found a site that decoded the model number inside the guitar. Each guitar was given a unique number that would let you know what year it was made and what what number it was in production. I wish I would have bookmarked it! All I remember was that this one was made sometime in the 40′s.
I have a silvertone acoustic guitar that my girlfriend give. Her grandpa said her grandmother’s had it since she was a kid.
I have a guitar exactly like that. Most of the time I see some that are similar but have Kay or harmony name and have a pickguard which mine has never had. I would like to sell mine but I don’t really know how to determine value. I guess I could always post on ebay with a reserve. I’m conflicted.
I have a silvertone spanish guitar. It is black,with case. Both look new. I also have little instruction book that came with it and some 1939 sheet music. I was toldby the son of the man who owned it thah his father bought in 1944. Have no idea if this right. the number inside the guitar is L2O67 8915. I would like any information I can get