Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: cozmik_cowboy on October 01, 2019, 10:50:55 PM
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Night before last I was on the MV Columbia back from Skagway to Juneau, and paused to enjoy some 20-something neo-hippies heading home from seasonal jobs sitting on the floor (excuse me - deck) picking (and, yes, mourning - as I stood leaning against the wall - that my sitting-on-the-floor-picking days were behind me before they were born....).
Not great playing; even, frequently, not all that good - but they were having fun, and it warmed my heart.
The two central players were a young lady with an Ovation, and a dude with a dread that I couldn't make out the logo on. I leaned in a bit, and - could that be right??
I commented on it, he handed it to me, and I can now say that I have played a Pignose acoustic guitar! I have, of course, long been familiar with their amps, but in my 50 years or so of being around/messing with/obsessing over guitars, I had never heard of, let alone seen, a Pignose guitar.
It was, to be honest, a thoroughgoing POS - but now I've played one!
Peter
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Learn something new everyday!
:D
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I Googled "pignose guitar" and saw all kinds of interesting stuff, including a double neck! As pauldo said^^^.
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Oops - I guess I forgot to title my thread. I hate when that happens.
Peter (who will offer the excuse that, between Skagway Tuesday AM & Sacramento yesterday PM, he got a total of about 50 minutes sleep; like the floor-sitting, can't do that anymore)
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The last Pignose acoustic on reverb sold for $79! Never seen one either.
Bill, tgo
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I have one of the first Pignose battery powered amps, SN under 3000, from the early 70's. I plan to sell it on EBay when I get to it. They now are quite collectable!
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I had an original Pignose amp. I loved the instructions that suggested you have a friend open and close Pignose while you play for a cool wah wah effect! I traded mine straight up to a college roommate for a 1950's Tweed Fender Champ! It was his idea -he wanted something that could run on batteries. I still have the Champ.
Bill, tgo
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Boy, did he take you, eh, Bill?
Not quite on the level of the guy (confessed non-player) who popped on another forum I frequent to ask about the '60 Les Paul they found wrapped in a blanket in Grandpa's closet after he died, but you did kinda OK there.
Peter
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I have one of those 70s pignose amps courtesy of an old client cleaning out their garage. I had to take a cheap les Paul copy as well as part of the deal, but totally worth it!
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One of the greatest guitar moments I experienced as a teenager was seeing this guy in the Boston Common with a Hohner Telecaster, a Small Stone, and a Pignose getting down with the funkiest sounds I have heard out of a guitar to this day. Ca. 1976.
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Perhaps even more interesting than the Pignose? What these 20-somethings were singing: Dylan, Simon, Young, Fogerty, Lennon/McCartney (and, of course, being acoustic millennials, "Wagon Wheel".......)
Peter
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File under weird coincidences: this guitar showed up at the music store I do repair work for today. Until it did, I had never seen one, only the amps.
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First "Pignose" guitar I've ever seen, too.
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!!!! ???