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Egmonds?
Inherited this from my big sis & have played & loved it for probably 30 years.
Does anybody know what they were made of/any history etc? The wood around the soundhole looks like plywood. It sounds fine though TBH the heads are very vague & fretting any chord above the 7th is a challenge. Wont be parted with it though! Cheers Johnny D |
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Pictures would help immensely.
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hi,
Some stuff I dug up... "Uilke Egmond a former railway-man, started his music shop in 1932 in Valkenswaard. He gave violin lessons and sold some instruments there. When he moved to Eindhoven ( 1934?? ) he opened a shop there.Together with his sons Gerard, Jaap and Dick, who joined him in World War II, he started building guitars there. During the sixties The Egmond Company became one of the biggest guitar luthiers of Europe. From 1961 they had a brandnew factory in Best. Towards the early eighties the company moved to Boxtel. Egmond made thousands of instruments that were distrubeted all over the world. Finally they couln't survive the concurrence of the Japanese luthiers." Source: Link Dating the guitar will be hard, but here are some clues. Link Some old catalogs to help. Link That may start you off in your research.
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That's a new one for me.
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Egmond Pix
I know she's a 60s girl cos my sister got her around 1970 2nd hand.
Big bassy sound & a very rustic looking rounded neck but nice to play open chords on. |
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Sorry posted same one 2x -doh! |
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and george harrison.
I believe they were the budget option back then but what they were made of I've no idea. It has a nice sound when playing open folky /country stuff but further up the neck there are a few buzzes. Not least due to the difficulty in fretting the strings but possibly also due to some of the frets being either raised or worn. Given that I saw one go for about £25 on ebay it aint worth gettin it fixed. |
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I've got the same guitar! My dad bought it for me when I was young. I think he got it at J C Penney's if I remember right. I keep it for sentimental reasons. It is playable and has an adjustible neck angle by turning a screw on the heel.
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Here's some pics...[/IMG]
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Hmmm... lets try again...
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I repaired one a while back for a local client. Someone (probably him) had taken the adjustable neck bolt all the way loose. The string tension then broke the fingerboard. (don't loosen the bolt in the neck heel too far)
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I'd love to get my hands on one of those, if i could find one for sale
but i do have an archtop model is it easy to adjust the neck ? Last edited by lucky 7; 02-02-2012 at 05:47 AM. |
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I had an Egmond back in the 1970's. Traded some record albums for it. It was my 2nd guitar and was way easier to play than the one my folks had bought me in the late 1960's. But I didn't have it long. It was stolen out of my friends car. But it was kind of a milestone for me in that I realized that better/easy to play guitars than what I had had were available. Soon after it was stolen I bought a new Epiphone Ft-120.
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My first 'real' guitar was an Egmond acoustic archtop, purchased for the princely sum of 16 pounds - money I had saved from my birthday and Christmas in 1970. Mine had a pickguard, but otherwise was almost exactly like this (a picture I found on eBay a few years ago):
It had the screw-adjustable neck as illustrated earlier, which was just as well, as it was pretty tough to play when I got it. I didn't know any better at the time, but was soon set straight by a more accomplished friend. It got me started - I'll always have fond memories of it, but have no desire to seek one out again after all these years. My Godin 5th Avenue eclipses it in every category
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