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Fretless prototype, rare and the stuff of legends. Lennon, Harrison, Hendrix, and Zappa. BBC ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

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@angusjuliastone Hi, would love to know if you still have that lovely Magnatone guitar? It has great historical connections with its designer Paul Barth. Would love to see photos 🙏

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@angusjuliastone hi guys, would love to know if you still have this lovely Magnatone guitar? Designed by Paul Barth, it has historically important connections to the origins of the electric guitar! Would love to see photos thanks 🙏

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@facebook the search by post facility is possibly one of the most important functions on the internet for researchers and historians. It literally help me to rewrite music history, and reconnect people after decades.
Please reinstate ASAP 🙏

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@jefftoddtiton @ChiBluesHistory @rdone True

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@jefftoddtiton @ChiBluesHistory @rdone Not really true, Beauchamp and Barth created the horseshoe pickup, in Beauchamp’s garage, and on Barth’s mothers kitchen table. They lived a short drive from each other. Rickenbacker had the money and the machinery to make the frying pans and insisted they use his name.

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@jefftoddtiton @ChiBluesHistory @rdone True

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Rubbing shoulders with fabulous, Grammy award winning guitarist Albert Lee tonight. Gave him a copy of Finding Fretless to read on the flight home to LA.

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The most prolific recording artist in British music history (probably). Ray Russell 22nd Feb

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@youngman_greg Don’s sister, Yvonne will love the photo, I will pass it on, thank you 😊

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@youngman_greg I only ever hear great things about Don, great guitarist, great luthier, great man. Do you remember Devon Oxford who worked with Don?

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@BurtonPixels @kipconlon Made by Bartell of California, designed by Paul Barth

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@JBONAMASSA how about I show you the exact location in LA where the ‘Frying Pan’ came alive?

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When you knock out the whole electricity network in LA from your kitchen table using your mothers sewing machine, what’s your excuse? Mum, we are making an electric guitar! Paul Barth, George Beauchamp in 1930 #guitar #rickenbacker

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Four Strings Good: A Feature Documentary https://t.co/T0QsW2BvdT

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@BBC_ARoadshow there is a big coincidence/link between the Walker Brothers tour, Hendrix signature, and the Ray Russell @thebeatles Fretless guitar. Hendrix and Russell were on the same tour and more…..

https://t.co/eeONhRhZKh

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Very sad news about Australian music legend Mark Moffatt
He was right when he claimed to have worked on one of the rarest of Beatles guitars, the ‘secret’, ‘mad’, Bartell Fretless when the ‘experts’ denied its existence! RIP Mark 😢

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Delighted that Grammy-winning guitar virtuoso & multi-instrumentalist John Jorgenson is enjoying a good read. Hopefully some happy memories 🙂

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@60sPsychJukebox Here’s some images of Paul Barth

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Is Andy Timmons going fretless or just enjoying a good read 🤔 Thanks for the photo @ToneQuest63

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@rocknrollofall Mo Foster