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My
band was playing show at the American Music Café, a venue in Murrrysville
Pennsylvania with an attached music store. The venue & music store
would be descibed by many locals as a "shady" business place.
We played there a lot because it was easy to book shows, & a lot of
our fans & friends all seemed to gravitate to the place because of
the growing (at the time) void of live all-ages music venues.
Every once in a while a cool or strange guitar went through the store
among the usual myriad of second-rate knock-offs. On Saturday December
23rd, 2000... I saw the "square guitar", and bought it that
day. I actually ended up trading in a no-name guitar that I had purchased
earlier in the week in trade for it.
Trying
to find out anything about the guitar manufacturers that use the Galveston
brand can prove to be difficult. The best I can gather is that they're
made in a factory somewhere in Korea.
The model name is not listed anywhere on my guitar, & I didn't know
what it was until I came across a black & white photo on some discount
guitar store's website. I noticed that he headstock is quite different
from my guitar though, and there was no visible name on the headstock
of the pictured guitar, but I'm getting closer.
- The
first piece of useful information about the Galveston B.B. Stone that
I came across was a review found at Harmony Central. Check
it out here.
- I don't know if I agree with this guys ratings 100%, but he seems
to have a lead on Galveston, Silverstar, and Un-Sung Musical Insruments...
and what he's equating it to as far as existing models. I haven't been
able to find anything out about Silverstar or Un-Sung Musical Instruments
either, but if you have any information on any of the aforementioned
companies, please
let me know.
- Through
my searching, I did find two useful sites: Eagle
Instruments & B.B. Stone
& Son Musical Instruments. Eagle instruments apparently
makes the exact same B.B. Stone Signature model, & they're actually
the originator. They give these Specifications.
- From
that website, I was able to discover & e-mail the actual designer
of the guitar, Jerker Antoni. This
is my correspondence with him, we were sightly confusing each other
at the beginning. Maybe it has to do with the language barrier?
- I
sent the same e-mail to B.B. Stone himself,
and got a little less of a reply.
I think there was a slightly stonger language barrier here.
- I
can only see one major difference between the Galveston & Eagle
models, the headstock. Also, the
Eagle models appear to have the words "B.B. Stone" on them.
- Know
anything about this guitar? Where did you find it? Remember
the day you bought it? Please
share it with us!
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