1960 Guyatone EB4

mattm · Post by **mattm** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 3:54 am

Here's another of my grandfathers guitars, one of the earliest bass guitars made by Guyatone.
I can't find much about them online but I know it is rare and a music store offered me a lot of money for it...
if any readers know anything about these please let me know

kdawg2a · Post by **kdawg2a** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 8:30 am

How much did they offer you?

Post by **GrantB** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:31 am

If it was a lot of money for a Guyatone you should have accepted it maybe?

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:54 am

*UNIQUE* wrote:If it was a lot of money for a Guyatone you should have accepted it maybe?

Agreed.

Definitely a niche market.

kdawg2a · Post by **kdawg2a** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:07 pm

All of the above is what I was implying.

mattm · Post by **mattm** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:43 pm

Mr. Music came around to tune a piano and saw it sitting in the corner and said he collects vintage guitars and offered $2500 for it.
I can't find anything online about it(apart from this http://torchsvintageguitarresearchblog. ... dness.html) and hoped by posting on here someone could tell me more about it.

Edwards · Post by **Edwards** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:51 pm

"...were played by top guitarists of the time, including Jeff Beck and Ringo Starr."

Ringo Starr is a guitarist?

kdawg2a · Post by **kdawg2a** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 7:13 pm

mattm wrote:Mr. Music came around to tune a piano and saw it sitting in the corner and said he collects vintage guitars and offered $2500 for it.
I can't find anything online about it(apart from this http://torchsvintageguitarresearchblog. ... dness.html) and hoped by posting on here someone could tell me more about it.

Call him back and take the cash. You could get a Les Paul with that kind of money! Guyatone, Zen-gar, Kawai etc were all made by the good folks at Teisco back in the 50's, 60's and 70's. See the guitar in my avatar? That's a Teisco SS-4L. Those along with the Teisco Spectrum 5's are pretty much the most desirable guitars that factory put out and if you're paying more than $1000 right now for either then you're paying too much. Don't get me wrong, that's a cool looking bass you got there but really it'd be worth $500 tops.

Vince · Post by **Vince** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 7:15 pm

Edward wrote:"...were played by top guitarists of the time, including Jeff Beck and Ringo Starr."

Ringo Starr is a guitarist?

You're thinking of the other Ringo Starr.

snitchez · Post by **snitchez** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 7:31 pm

think there was one on trade me recently tht sold for less than a hundred, 68 dollars or so if i remember correctly, call up that music shop again and grab their money.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instrume ... 176618.htm

mattm · Post by **mattm** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:36 pm

snitchez wrote:think there was one on trade me recently tht sold for less than a hundred, 68 dollars or so if i remember correctly, call up that music shop again and grab their money.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instrume ... 176618.htm

I followed that link and looked at the buyer.... mrmusic bought it....he must be stoked but I guess he isn't interested in mine then.
'tis a small world.

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