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Re: gould guitar
Posted by Susan on Wed, 04/13/05 - 11:11:43.
I have a Gould, signed by a.landau,model number F-31. I have found out that most if not all Goulds in the US were originally purchased in Michigan. GJ. Gould died 3 years ago, his widow is in West Bloomfield,Mi.and has a son living in the same area. They are awesome guitars but because most people have never heard of them, it is difficult to determine a value. They are only worth what someone will pay for them.
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I also purchased a GF110s back in the 70's from who I believe was the man himself at his home in Michigan. I still love it now as much as back then, maybe more. Such a great playing instrument. I have never met anyone who has ever heard of Gould in the 30 plus years I have owned mine. It has a crack from the bridge to the bottom edge that I want to get repaired but am afraid someone may make it worse, any suggestions?
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: I have a Gould, signed by a.landau,model number F-31. I have found out that most if not all Goulds in the US were originally purchased in Michigan. GJ. Gould died 3 years ago, his widow is in West Bloomfield,Mi.and has a son living in the same area. They are awesome guitars but because most people have never heard of them, it is difficult to determine a value. They are only worth what someone will pay for them.
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I also also have a Gould WG-20 a wonderful 12 string I bought around 1977-8 at a small guitar shop in Detroit called the Hole in the Wall. They were having a two for one sale and I talked a buddy in buying a 12 string which he later sold. Paid $250 for it back then. It isn't signed just the Gould and Sons label. Still sounds and plays great
: : I have a Gould, signed by a.landau,model number F-31. I have found out that most if not all Goulds in the US were originally purchased in Michigan. GJ. Gould died 3 years ago, his widow is in West Bloomfield,Mi.and has a son living in the same area. They are awesome guitars but because most people have never heard of them, it is difficult to determine a value. They are only worth what someone will pay for them.
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Hello- I grew up in Detroit and I met George Gould several times. I bought a total of 3 guitars from him in the 1970s. George had a business wholesaling cheap guitars, mainly for Sears, and I think he made a fair amount of money at it. But his main 'love' was in designing high quality acoustic guitars. I have been playing my Gould 6-string, a GF-140S, regularly for nearly 30 years! This instrument was designed by Gould but handmade by the Kizan brothers in Japan. It has gotten better with age and I've never even considered replacing it.
I had also bought a cheap acoustic from George to use as a 'beach guitar', and also a pretty nice 12-string, but both of those are long gone.
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: a pretty nice 12-string, but both of those are long gone.
You sold this to me for an outrageous price about 1980. It recently met its fate at a teenage party at our house in an unfortunate "El Kabong"-style incident.
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: You sold this to me for an outrageous price about 1980. It recently met its fate at a teenage party at our house in an unfortunate "El Ka "-style incident.
Yeah, but your check bounced so you still owe me 50 bucks.
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Jon,
Your story sounds like mine. I purchased a GF-110S from George (built by Kizan) in 1977. Many guitars have come and gone in those thirty years, but the Gould stays. Every now and then I fall in love with it all over again. I suspect that the GF-110S is a less ornate version of the GF-140S which I turned down because the $50 difference was a LOT in those days.
Dan
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