[mplpost] Canadian Guitars

[Nonie Crete]

My first guitar blew up in the summer heat in my cabin at our cottage at
Georgian Bay in Penetanguishene. The strings where about a third of and inch
from the frets and  took months of playing to build up resistance to pain
and to stop the poor fingers from bleeding. I wasn't at all attached to that
guitar and hence I left it to bake in the sun often. That was till I came
home and found it in pieces. Then my fifteen year old hormones kicked in and
man, I sure was unbearable to live with. So my sister Nancy read in the
Penny Saver that there was a Gibson J45 for sale at $150 in Midland and took
her miserable sister off to see it. I bought that guitar with my part-time
hospital tray-girl job and babysitting fund now drained dry from a down and
out country and western entertainer.  His picking skills and western belt
buckle  had chewed off some of the guitar around the back and front by the
hole of that lovely guitar. Also, it was born in 1957, the last year they
hand-made that particular model and it had a plastic bridge. I bought that
guitar, got it fixed up with a new unplasic bridge installed and wrote most
of my songs with it. It plays with me still and has a great Fischman Natural
pickup to help it sing real pretty. I sure do understand why John Denver
wrote that song 'This Old Guitar'.

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