When we were kids our family was camping in the Eureka Springs, AR area and we went into a music store called 'The Eureka Strings' (as I recall...I was maybe 8 at the time, so this was the very early 1970's). Several of my older siblings played guitar and there was an EKO 12 string guitar that had a crack in the side near the back strap button.
My oldest sister sweet talked my Dad into buying the guitar based on the markdown and we wound up with a pretty decent 12 string in the house.
Unfortunately, I didn't play then so it was an "older kids" present in reality.
The Eko was still in the family up until a couple of years ago when one of my older brothers had it at his house and the neck broke from the string tension and the guitar 'self-destructed' while he was sitting on the sofa. I think he has an intention of bringing it to a luthier to see if it can be salvageable but as far as I know he has not done that.
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