Re: Music Ground . . . interesting reading
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09 Jan 2011, 09:56
by Didier
Re: Music Ground . . . interesting reading
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09 Jan 2011, 10:13
by Alan Prudhoe
If this is the old man's house I think I am in the wrong business
http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/sales/1555000
Re: Music Ground . . . interesting reading
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09 Jan 2011, 10:41
by Iain Purdon
Yet another good reason not to spend too much money on the tools of the trade!
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09 Jan 2011, 12:56
by stephen
That makes fascinating, although not unsurprising reading.
Thankfully, I've never lusted after vintage guitars myself and also, have 'luckily' never had the wherewithal to finance such acquisitions, even if I suffered a bang on the head and suddenly had a desire to own a '57 Strat or '58 Les Paul. I have an even stronger aversion to the current craze for relic'd, new guitars. I wont go there now, as my feelings on this have been aired many times on the letters pages of guitar magazines.............
As far as Music Ground is concerned, maybe their boast of being, 'The Supreme Court of Rock 'n Roll' will come back and bite them on the a**e, when they find themselves in a rather different 'Supreme Court', having to explain themselves!
Makes me think of a sentence that stuck in my mind from Tony Bacon's book, 'The Million Dollar Les Paul'. It went something along the lines of,......"Between 1958 and 1960, Gibson's records show that they made 1,850 Les Paul Standards. Surprisingly, there are only 2,500 still around!" My recollection of the exact figures mentioned, may be not be exact, but I'm sure you'll grasp what was being intimated by the author.
I hope that anyone with more info. regarding this Music Ground story will keep this forum updated.
Stephen.
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09 Jan 2011, 15:56
by Alan Prudhoe
Any of these contact points any good, Dave.
The site was updated on 20 Dec 2010.
http://www.hofner.com/gab/en/content/44/view/16/
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09 Jan 2011, 16:22
by stephen
Amongst the large community of Music Ground customers who may or may not be questioning the veracity of their purchase(s), you may be one of the 'luckier' ones with your Hofner (?) bass. I'm not au fait with either Hofner models or their respective prices, but if you paid £1,150 for an instrument that is as good as you say and you "love it to bits", that doesn't seem like too bad an outcome compared with what others might be feeling now.......
Imagine if you'd bought one that supposedly had a Mcartney 'connection', been charged a hefty premium for that aspect alone and then found that any such provenance was just spurious.
There must be many people now, gingerly dismantling their supposed 50's Stratocasters and wondering if there's a way to check if Abigail Ybarra's 50 year old fingerprints are still detectable on the base of their pickups, or if Tadeo Gomez was actually at work on that day that his pencilled initials on the neck heel claim. If this isn't the case and your 'genuine' vintage guitar is just the contemporary product of a disparate band of skilled, Yorkshire guitar fakers, to say that you're going to feel a tad sick, is probably a massive understatement.................
Maybe we've all been a bit too gullible on this whole vintage guitar business and this Music Ground thing is perhaps, a long overdue 'wake-up' call. By the law of averages, as the years roll by, there should have been less prime pieces available to buy, but for some strange reason, Music Ground seemed to have discovered a never-ending supply and had to open several more shops, just to have the space to display them in!
Old guitars? I'm sure that I remember reading somewhere that Hank was asked his opinion on the subject and his response was, "Just because a guitar is an old one, it doesn't neccessarily mean that it's a good one. They produced 'bad' guitars then, the same as they do now". Couldn't agree more.........
Stephen.