Tim, sorry, I have been out all day. Not to get too long, when I first started playing I was turned on to this small hole in the wall music store in Pawtucket, run by Tony and his wife Jenny called Tony's R.I. Music. Somewhere in '75 or '76 they picked up the Alembic line. Later, in the early '80's Tony passed away and the store was bought by his service tech, Butch. My guess is that the basement was a real dungeon. It seems that not to long before you bought your guitar, while cleaning the basement to get ready for a move a couple of store fronts away, under a pile of what he thought were empty guitar cases, Butch found a case with a new, old stock Alembic 6-string in it. He told me this story after the fact, in case you are wondering. He said it was in funky conditon from being in the basement so long. It had the original strings and the brass and other hardware needed a serious cleaning. He said that it cleaned up very nicely. If yours is that same guitar, I believe you are the first owner. Does that jive with what you know??
Kenn R.
