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c.1945 Gretsch
"New Yorker"
16" Archtop Acoustic
one of the first of this model produced
by Gretsch
this particular guitar traveled throughout the
world on the high seas aboard numerous
Navy ships as the personal guitar of a
career officer
formed spruce top
dark sunburst finish
maple back, sides and neck
rare "moccosin" unbound headstock with
stenciled "T-roof logo" (Gretsch across top
in the T and New Yorker horizonally below
the T), and with a vertical double stripe below
that down to the nut
single-ply creme binding on top and back
rosewood fretboard with large "block" inlays
and single-ply binding
no pickguard
adjustable rosewood bridge
chrome tailpiece
open strip tuners with black celluloid buttons
introduced 1945+/-; discontinued 1970
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