There was already a clique of people as early as the 1960s who were interested in vintage acoustic guitars. There was shop called the Fret Shop that had lots of used guitars, and they were better than new ones. Back when I was a student at the University of Chicago, there were pawnshops in walking distance. It wasn’t long before I found another guitar. I would’ve been better off with a steel-string guitar, because what I liked was Appalachian string band music. I realized by the end of my first lesson that I had the wrong guitar, because it was a nylon string classical. I bought a Conde Hermanos classical guitar made in Madrid. I made the wrong choice at first, which was pretty typical. There wasn’t much out there that would cost more. Even if you wanted a vintage one, it was hard to spend over $300. ![]() ![]() As a college student, Mom and Dad were willing to buy me one good guitar, and a good guitar back then didn’t cost near as much as a good guitar today. ![]() I didn’t start out with the intention of being a vintage guitar dealer. ![]() I started out primarily as a collector and the business aspect of it evolved over time, almost by accident.
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