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2013/02/20 15:27:31
travismc1
http://home.provide.net/~cfh/42c2.jpg I couldn't make out the logo... it the shape looks similar to this c2 that I linked to... The epiphone has a two piece bridge, one being longer than the other... it appears to be straight across which is why I jumped on the martin bandwagon. also, I can't see anything in the video that makes me think... ELECTRIC. It doesn't mean it isn't, I just couldn't make out a cable.
2013/02/20 15:27:39
cclarry
If you look at the Inlays at 0:22 you can see that they are those of the Epiphone in
post #2..which is really post #3 but post numbers go OP then #1 and #2 and so on...
2013/02/20 15:28:07
soens
Hmmm. Did no one in 1967 notice Spock was a Beatle wannabe?
2013/02/20 15:28:57
cclarry
soens


Hmmm. Did no one in 1967 notice Spock was a Beatle wannabe?


2013/02/20 15:32:16
soens
travismc1


It's just an old Martin F hole with a pick guard attached. Should be able to find old pics of them. Halfway into it, some ol' boy gets up and starts whistling. I don't know anybody that can whistle louder than someone blowing a sax, a trumpet... I think that was more for show and tell ... than an actual music ensemble.


It was acting to prerecorded music. Common movie technique.
2013/02/20 15:35:11
daveny5
Could be a Gibson Super 400 which was popular at that time. Hard to tell without being able to see it better.
2013/02/20 15:38:31
The Maillard Reaction
1:53


It's an Epiphone Broadway.

They had optional floating pickups that mount to the pick guard.


http://www.archtop.com/ac_41bwy.html
2013/02/20 15:39:28
js516
It looks like the Epi Broadway. at ~1:20, you can see that there are no control knobs and it has a 2 part tail piece, when the camera pulls back at around 1:25.
2013/02/20 15:42:35
spacey
 At work can't see video but I think he liked Epiphones. There are many later pictures with him playing them.
2013/02/20 15:46:14
cclarry
At 0:31 you can also clearly see the two staggered string buckles of the Epiphone under his strumming arm elbow...showing as small staggered black squares from the lighting...

I'm going with the Epiphone...everything I see matches...only difference is no pickup...
But the Epiphone might have been a copy of a Gibson, as they would commonly do, so it's either
an Epiphone or a Gibson.  Only real way to know would be to see the Company Inlay on the headstock...and you're not going to see that here...LOL

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