[mplpost] Canadian Guitars

[RHK Musgrove]

Well, I guess I will delurk to get in on this love fest.  I am a very 
mediocre guitar player.  In fact using the expression mediocre is rather 
flattering to me.  But, I love banging away at one of these stringed 
blues chasers.  A couple of years ago a divested myself of a much loved 
Gibson J45 and took a chance on a new guitar maker in the area(Alcona, 
Ont).  Had hit middle age and decided I needed a wild fling.  Since I 
couldn't afford a Porche and/or girlfriend(besides my wife has no sense 
of humour in that direction) I had a guitar built for me by Larry 
Shannon.  He is a student of Sergei de Jong.  This is a simple and 
beautiful instrument made of  Indian Rosewood and Sitka Spruce with a 
Mahogany neck and an Ebony fretboard.  The memory of that old Gibson has 
been lost somewhere in the deep(?)recesses of my mind as I wail away on 
my Shannon Guitar. Twenty-five years from now I expect I'll still be a 
lousy player but, that guitar will have aged better than me.

"listen to the strings, they jangle and dangle while the old guitar rings."

Russ Musgrove


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