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  • 12 string guitars of Fred Neil

    From bonestar1947@gmail.com@21:1/5 to k4j...@gmail.com on Sun Jul 23 19:53:09 2017
    On Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 8:46:41 PM UTC-7, k4j...@gmail.com wrote:
    Does anyone here know for sure what 12 string guitars did Fred Neil play in his recordings and on stage? I see photos on line of one he is playing with a very long peg head that I don't recognize. Please post here if you know what he played, no
    guessing please.

    Fred Neil played a "Miguel Companie", 12-string, and on the label it said,"Specialising in 12-string guitars". Fred's repairman in NYC, Marc Silber(now of Berkeley,CA), gave one to me as a gift, knowing how I loved Fred. I'm a luthier, and although I
    glued the guitar back together, it was very lightly built, very fragile, and eventually imploded. It was an X-braced top with no bridge-plate, instead relying on a massive rosewood bridge to take the accumulated stress of the tension of 12 strings. I
    saved the back. It was dreadnaught shaped, with 12 frets to the body on a mahogany neck with a wide nut. The top was spruce, and the body was Brazilian rosewood.....Al Milburn, luthier

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  • From stevemarkland00@gmail.com@21:1/5 to k4j...@gmail.com on Fri Nov 3 08:50:14 2017
    On Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 11:46:41 PM UTC-4, k4j...@gmail.com wrote:
    Does anyone here know for sure what 12 string guitars did Fred Neil play in his recordings and on stage? I see photos on line of one he is playing with a very long peg head that I don't recognize. Please post here if you know what he played, no
    guessing please.

    He played a Miguel 12 string. One of Miguel's early
    models, maybe #5. Bob Ingram in Miami I believe also had one.
    Perhaps he will respond. They were fantastic instruments.
    I owned #33 when I lived there. Wish I had never sold it,
    but I did. It is the only guitar I ever wished I had back.

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  • From hubops@ccanoemail.ca@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 3 12:48:14 2017
    On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 08:50:14 -0700 (PDT), stevemarkland00@gmail.com
    wrote:

    On Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 11:46:41 PM UTC-4, k4j...@gmail.com wrote: >> Does anyone here know for sure what 12 string guitars did Fred Neil play
    in his recordings and on stage? I see photos on line of one he is playing >>with a very long peg head that I don't recognize.
    Please post here if you know what he played, no guessing please.


    He played a Miguel 12 string. One of Miguel's early
    models, maybe #5. Bob Ingram in Miami I believe also had one.
    Perhaps he will respond. They were fantastic instruments.
    I owned #33 when I lived there. Wish I had never sold it,
    but I did. It is the only guitar I ever wished I had back.


    scroll way down <enjoy the ride> in this Flick CoffeeHouse fb page -
    - to June 2013 - and see a 1963 photo of a dapper foursome -
    - one holding the 12 string.

    https://www.facebook.com/The-Flick-Coffeehouse-269291933095721/?nr

    John T.

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