Top: Spruce
Back and Sides: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Ebony
Bridge: Rosewood
pickup: Original FRAP GF100.
Tuners: original Schaller, but replaced with Ebony buttons
Serial: C2780
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Top: Spruce
Back and Sides: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Ebony
Bridge: Rosewood
pickup: Original FRAP GF100.
Tuners: original Schaller, but replaced with Ebony buttons
Serial: C2780
Here we have a delightful, handcrafted, 1970s Gurian S3M, if you know your guitars, then you will know that these guitars were highly favoured by many renowned guitarists such as Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, John Renbourn, and many others. It is fitted with the original FRAP GF100 pickup system with Brass volume control on the bridge & Brass endpin jack socket. But IMHO, with the brass work and twin battery pack etc, It adds extra weight to the guitar and there are much better pick-up systems on the market today, but it was of its time! There are various playwear marks around the body, the action is excellent and the tone is outstanding. The original tuners are still fitted, but the original chrome buttons have been replaced with Ebony buttons, I guess to match the Ebony fingerboard! There are no breaks or repairs anywhere and the neck is very good indeed. It comes in its period-correct hard case. This Guitar is a great playing and rare instrument and sounds fantastic!
Gurian Guitars was a manufacturer of high quality acoustic guitars based in New York City, then Hinsdale, New Hampshireand finally West Swanzey, New Hampshire, from the 1960s to 1981. The instruments were designed by luthier Michael Gurianwho also supervised production of the instruments bearing his name. The company was one of the earliest “boutique” acoustic guitar makers in the United States, offering an alternative product to those of the larger, factory-based makers of the day, with instruments characterized by a distinctive shape, features and sound.
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We operate a 48hr approval period for on-line mail order purchases only. Customers who buy goods in the RGG showroom can fully evaluate them prior to making the payment, and as such do not have this return and refund option available to them. The 48hr mail order returns period offered is with regard to either a problem with the guitar upon receipt, IE, the goods appear to have a defect that was not outlined in the sale listing or clearly not sold as advertised. If the purchaser wishes to return the goods for any other reason, then there will be a re-stocking fee of 10% of the original sale value & return carriage must be paid by the purchaser, there are no exceptions to these rules.
If you want to return an item please make contact for a returns authorisation. You have 2 days to try the instrument. We offer a full refund minus our shipping costs (including our cost of free shipping if applicable) It is the purchaser’s responsibility to organise the return promptly to the company in the condition it was received, using the original packaging and with a copy of the sales receipt. (We recommend you insure the item in transit). The item must be shipped back via a service comparable with which it was delivered, within 24 hours (Excluding weekends) upon receipt of the return authorization. Goods that have been altered from their original condition in any way cannot be returned.
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