Leo Kottke Guitar Sale

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In my email inbox this morning.........

Leo Kottke Guitars, Publications, and Workshops


Friends:

Guitars
You may have heard that Leo Kottke has decided to sell some of his “extra” guitars — 41 guitars that represent his performance and recording career and his interests in 12-string, 10-string, 6-string, archtop, and electric guitars. The first 17 of these instruments will be listed on reverb.com in a few days.

1976 Bozo, Grand Concert, custom, 12-string, 377-76, $50,000, “LEO” inlay, magnificent
1970 Bozo, 12-string, 264-70, $50,000, beautiful
1964 Martin conversion, D-12-20, currently 10-string, 206766, $55,000, iconic
1980 Gibson, L5C-12, 12-string, 82920175, $10,000, this may be a unique instrument

Taylor, LKSM 12, 1/15/90, $10,000, prototype, “Leo Kottke” inlay at 12th fret
Taylor, LSKM 12, $7,000, prototype, “Leo Kottke” inlay at 12th fret
Taylor, LKSM 12, 12924, 3/15/91, $7,000, prototype, “Leo Kottke” inlay at 14th fret

Kopp, Trail Boss, 710205, $6,500
Kopp, custom Jumbo, 711406, $4,000, 12-string

Benedetto, 0-16-6881, $9,250
Lacey, Imperial, 22, 6/15/94, $7,500, “Leo Kottke” inlay

Charvel, c902948, $1,200
Ibanez, Metheny, 709001, $1,500
Gibson, CE, G054, 1982, $3,750
Charvel, Custom, V902516, 1989-91, $1,500
Rainsong, OM-1000 7746, $3,500
Rainsong, WS-3000, 9269, $3,500, 12-string

I want to tell you about the company that is conducting this sale. The Milwaukee Guitar Collective was established in 2019 by Mike Cudahy, Joe Gallenberger, and Jason Klagstad. Together, these three represent many decades of experience in buying and selling vintage instruments and they have been very generous and forthright in their support of fingerstyle guitar. A percentage of the sale of this aggregation of Leo Kottke’s guitars will go to support the Fingerstyle Guitar Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and other projects that directly support the continued renaissance of fingerstyle guitar.

As part of this process, over the last few months nationally renowned luthier Denny Rauen has been restoring some of the more road-worn guitars while Milwaukee Guitar Collective has been photographing them, drafting comprehensive bench test reports, and obtaining certificates of authenticity for the next owner of each instrument. Once fully documented and returned to prime playability, most of these guitars will be posted on the Milwaukee Guitar Collective reverb.com shop.

For those of you who may have an interest in getting a preview of detailed information and purchasing one of these guitars, please email [email protected] or call Joe Gallenberger at 414-897-7870.

Additionally, if you would like to sell an instrument, Milwaukee Guitar Collective will also contribute a portion of what would normally be their commission. Just contact Joe Gallenberger at 414-897-7870 if you have an instrument you want to sell.

I am very grateful for the support of the Milwaukee Guitar Collective. Their generosity benefits both the regional and global fingerstyle communities.

Leo Kottke/6- and 12-String Guitar
Work on the book Leo Kottke/6- and 12-String Guitar continues apace. This book will include detailed transcriptions of all the compositions on Kottke’s seminal recording along with essays and other materials illuminating the context of its release. Recent interviews with some of the principals in the early years of Takoma Records have shed new light on the genesis and significance of Takoma’s best-selling recording.

The Music of Leo Kottke 2020 Workshop
The Music of Leo Kottke 2019 Workshop in Ellensburg, Washington last September was a great success; the interest and enthusiasm of students was palpable and Leo Kottke’s concert on the last night was a magnificent culmination. With the support of Learn from the Masters Music Outreach, a music philanthropy organization, the workshop was able to realize many of its longstanding aspirations. We look forward to announcing the details of the 2020 Workshop soon.

I’ll keep you posted.

John Stropes, Director of Guitar Studies, Finger-Style Guitar
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts
cell 262-994-8710
[email protected]
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[lowrider]

Boy, if I was only in the market for a $50,000 12, I'd be right there!!!!!!!!!!

[gfirob]

Boy, you'd have to be a serious Kottke fan to pay those prices.

[Pitar]

Obviously provenance is being marketed here but Leo Kottke fans out there are probably looking to do the same thing he's doing, being of similar vintage.

[Mr. Paul]

I always translate "formerly be owned by X" to "X didn't like it enough to keep"

[ukejon]

I’ve seen these. Pretty amazing. The Taylor prototypes are really interesting.

[frankmcr]

Leo Kottke/6- and 12-String Guitar
Work on the book Leo Kottke/6- and 12-String Guitar continues apace. This book will include detailed transcriptions of all the compositions on Kottke’s seminal recording along with essays and other materials illuminating the context of its release. Recent interviews with some of the principals in the early years of Takoma Records have shed new light on the genesis and significance of Takoma’s best-selling recording.

I'll take one of those!

[Taylor814]

Originally Posted by frankmcr

Leo Kottke/6- and 12-String Guitar
Work on the book Leo Kottke/6- and 12-String Guitar continues apace. This book will include detailed transcriptions of all the compositions on Kottke’s seminal recording along with essays and other materials illuminating the context of its release. Recent interviews with some of the principals in the early years of Takoma Records have shed new light on the genesis and significance of Takoma’s best-selling recording.

I'll take one of those!

Yeah, I can't wait either. The last time I attended one of Stropes' Kottke workshops a few years ago he mentioned that they planned to complete and/or rework all of the tunes on this album, but I assumed they would just be his typical single transcriptions. Putting them all together in a complete book will be really neat. It will be interesting to see if they represent note for note transcriptions of the actual recorded pieces. More typically John would produce transcriptions that represented the point to which the composition had evolved when Kottke stopped including it in his stage repertoire, but which often didn't correlate 100% with any particular recording.

[chrismitchell]

I think Leo said himself that Martin conversion was hard to fret ..ha 55k

[zoopeda]

Originally Posted by gfirob

Boy, you'd have to be a serious Kottke fan to pay those prices.

More than half of them are under $5k. You just have to read below the first couple of listings....

[KevinH]

If 41 is only "some of his extras", I wonder how many he has in total.

[Jobe]

Question. Are they 'used' instruments?

[Bob Womack]

Leo had given up 12 String until he encountered the Taylors.


Bob

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by Jobe

Question. Are they 'used' instruments?

What a curious question. Why would you think they might not be?

[ukejon]

Originally Posted by chrismitchell

I think Leo said himself that Martin conversion was hard to fret ..ha 55k

I’ve played this guitar and heard others play it....playable indeed with huge tone....rare and important piece of fingerstyle history.