Hi!

I’ve lately taught my fiance to play harmonica, and since my main instrument is guitar, I’ve tried to soften her defences on trying it, too.

A few days back I dropped by at my favourite flea market Emmaus here in Helsinki, and as so often, it again had a real jewel:

There was a dusty guitar hanging from the ceiling, with nasty looking cracks all over. I grabbed it, sat down on in the cafe area, and started playing. The strings were blackened, but the grip was promising, and the sound was good. What surprised me was the fact that it was in perfect tune, which is rare with flea market guitars, as you know.

With closer inspection I realized that the cracks were only the finish deep (I don’t remember the word in english for the protective finish), and I got really surprised on how thick the finish was; seemed like about 1-1,5 mm thick. Neck was in undamaged, as was the body (it looked bad, but it was only surface, as I said). Then I looked at the name tag inside: Roderich Paesold, model had faded with sun. Never heard.

Then I thought, “Okay, I bet it’s expensive” and glanced the price tag, which said 28 €. 28! SOLD!

I played it home for a few days, and conviced her to try a bit. After 3 eves of training, she’s already hanging with me on Dirty Old town and some others!

Really good guitar to play!

J

PS: Oh, yes. It’s the nylon type.