2008 Newport Guitar Festival in Miami Beach, Part 2
May 8th, 2008
Julius Borges, who started the Newport Guitar Festival and produced two of them before passing it along to Henry Lowenstein, was there with two guitars. One was a fancy style 45 and the other was this, a rather austere mahogany OM. The mahogany OM had the wonderful dry, crackling tone that I only expect to find in vintage guitars and I couldn’t stop playing it. Julius said that he got the mahogany from a lumber mill that was preparing to cut it up for doors. If that wasn’t bad enough, because the wood had some figure in it, the doors were slated to be paint grade. Yikes!
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