Night before last I was on the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry [I]MV Columbia

[cozmik_cowboy]

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

[pauldo]

Learn something new everyday! 
 

[gearhed289]

I Googled "pignose guitar" and saw all kinds of interesting stuff, including a double neck! As pauldo said^^^.

[cozmik_cowboy]

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)

[lbpesq]

The last Pignose acoustic on reverb sold for $79!  Never seen one either.

Bill, tgo

[gtrguy]

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!

[lbpesq]

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

[cozmik_cowboy]

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

[hankster]

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!

[edwin]

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.

[cozmik_cowboy]

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

[edwardofhuncote]

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.

[growlypants]

First "Pignose" guitar I've ever seen, too.

[pauldo]

!!!!