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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Holden McGroin on May 23, 2004, 01:55:23 AM

Title: About as good as one of Hank's
Post by: Holden McGroin on May 23, 2004, 01:55:23 AM

A guitar owned by Mother Maybelle Carter is up for sale.

A member of one of country music's most influential families, "Mother Maybelle" Carter is thought to have purchased the Gibson L-5 in 1928 with money she made from early recording sessions. It was the most expensive model Gibson made — $275 without a case.

Now priced at $575,000, Carter's guitar had been on loan to the Country Music Hall of Fame, which considered the instrument one of its "crown jewels."
 
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