Travel back intime with this vintage acoustic guitar. I got it from the second owner. She got it as a girl in the early or mid-1940s, during World War Two. Here\'s the story. Before the War, a guitarist friend of her father used to come to their family home and play music with her fiddle playing dad. When he enlisted in the Merchant Marine, he asked her to take care of his Gibson flattop. When he returned home to reclaim his guitar, he gifted her with this Brazilian guitar. The custom stamp is stamped \"37,\" which I assume is the year of construction. If not, it is from no later than 1945. It is an early Tranquillo Giannini guitar. At two pounds, six ounces, it is the lightest acoustic guitar I have ever held. To save weight, it does not even have geared tuners, but friction pegs. Two of the four tuning pegs are modern replacements (the first and second), but it does come with another of the original pegs. It sounds wonderful. I really wanted to keep it, but have decided to sell it. I do not believe it has ever had steel strings on it. The top is appropriately flatfish and unwarped (or, if warped, only very slightly). 12th fret action is 4/32\" on the bass side and 6/32\" on the treble side. There is a very neck slight twist.There is a hairline top crack with the grain below the treble side of the bridge to the lower bout edge. There are a pair of short hairline cracks in the back upper bout. I was going to have my guy work on the cracks, but decided to just leave them be. It comes in an Epiphone hard case with a broken handle.

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It will be well packed with plenty of new 1/2\" bubblewrap and shipped in a new 46\"x19\"x7\" stout cardboard instrumentbox. Please check out my store, “The 1970 Time Travel Trailer,” for morecool vintage stuff, including a bunch of vintage guitars (and a few ukuleles,banjos, fiddles, mandolins and amps, as well as fiddles, brass, woodwind, andvarious oddball musical instruments and old instrument brochures & catalogs).And please check out our new YouTube TV show, “Musical Treasure Hunting,” tosee more of our adventures searching for old musical instruments.