A new song from an old guitar ~ March 2, 1995
David Heiller I don’t know Dennis Hansen well, but I know him better now, after he fixed my guitar. I bought the guitar for $3 in 1979, at a garage sale in Belgrade, Minnesota. It was a smaller size than normal. Someone told me it was a parlor guit a r, made for women around the turn of the, century. David playing a different old guitar, his beloved Gibson J45. (Alas, I cannot find a photo of him with the parlor guitar.) The original bridge was missing. That’s the part that the strings are attached to at the bottom of the guitar. Someone had replaced it with a metal bridge, screwed into the tail end of the guitar. The face for front side) of the guitar was cracked. Some of the support pieces had come unglued on the inside. Slight depressions had been worn into the fret board, from people playing the same chords over and over. That appealed to me. The guitar had been played a lot. It was well-loved. I wondered who had played it. Maybe some farmer sitting in his ...