[mplpost] Cockburn's Larrivee

[Rob Wakelin]

I'm sure Jason Fowler told me that Bruce Cockburn's Larrivee was sold by
Ring Music in Toronto, back when Jason was still working there.  I would
have loved to have had the chance to buy it, or at least see it, but Jason
said it was so badly beaten up that it was almost unplayable.  I'm also
pretty sure he said that the sides, and possibly the back of this guitar
were made out of something unusual, like ebony, that made the guitar
incredibly heavy.  The first time I saw Cockburn play that guitar at Massey
Hall was the moment I fell in love with Canadian guitars in general.

Rob

on 1/28/02 11:22 PM, woodway at woodway@ican.net wrote:

> Hi, all-
> There was a batch of Larrivees in 1971 (yup, that's right) in a dreadnaught
> style, and Terry
> Jones of Perth County has one: Brent Titcomb, Bob Carpenter, David Bradstreet
> and Paul Mills had the
> others (correct me if I'm wrong!)- very wide, flat fingerboards and some of
> the first guitars with
> that "tight" Larrivee sound, I think. Terry's is still in action and sounds
> great with the Twelfth
> Fret pickup in it. A big, demanding Cadillac of a guitar to play but it pays
> you back! What was the
> connection between Bruce Cockburn and Larrivee? Didn't he get everybody on the
> handmade guitar
> bandwagon around then?
> -David Woodhead

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