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Re: Anyone any information on Martin Coletti Guitars

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Posted by Martin (from: ) on January 30, 2004 at 10:15:44:

In Reply to: Anyone any information on Martin Coletti Guitars posted by Liz Garvin on September 21, 2002 at 17:53:17:

My first guitar (circa 1973) was a small Martin Coletti acoustic. Cost me 1 Pound UK second hand from my sister. It cost Ł7 new in around 1969 in "Sound Centre" in Cardiff, Wales. It was atrocious. I beat the plywood body to matchwood with a hammer, and made a "Flying V" body from a school desk top, fitted a Shaller pickup near the neck, and sprayed it with blue glitter. This was follwed by a rectangle "Bo Diddley" boddy.
Hey it was the 70's! :-)
Sold it for around Ł5 in 1976, and I can't say i ever missed it. It played and sounded disgusting. it can only be described as a Toy guitar for children, or something non-musicians would hang on the wall as an ornament. Mine was so unplayable it almost put me off guitar, but I battled on such was my desire.

My advice? If you don't want to hang it on the wall, and don't have a child that you want to discourage from playing the guitar, it would probably make good firewood.

Sorry to be so blunt.

: I have come across a small acoustic guitar with the name Martin Coletti on it. Does anyone know anything about these guitars. Any information would be appreiciated.
: Thanks

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: My first guitar (circa 1973) was a small Martin Coletti acoustic. Cost me 1 Pound UK second hand from my sister. It cost Ł7 new in around 1969 in "Sound Centre" in Cardiff, Wales. It was atrocious. I beat the plywood body to matchwood with a hammer, and made a "Flying V" body from a school desk top, fitted a Shaller pickup near the neck, and sprayed it with blue glitter. This was follwed by a rectangle "Bo Diddley" boddy. : Hey it was the 70's! :-) : Sold it for around Ł5 in 1976, and I can't say i ever missed it. It played and sounded disgusting. it can only be described as a Toy guitar for children, or something non-musicians would hang on the wall as an ornament. Mine was so unplayable it almost put me off guitar, but I battled on such was my desire. : My advice? If you don't want to hang it on the wall, and don't have a child that you want to discourage from playing the guitar, it would probably make good firewood. : Sorry to be so blunt. : : I have come across a small acoustic guitar with the name Martin Coletti on it. Does anyone know anything about these guitars. Any information would be appreiciated. : : Thanks

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