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Topic: Don Helms' guitar for sale on Facebook Marketplace? |
Michael Lester
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 14 Apr 2022 12:09 pm |
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| Facebook Marketplace - $150,000 |
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Tony Oresteen
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Georgia, USA
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Posted 14 Apr 2022 1:03 pm
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I am not on FaceBook.
Is it his double neck Gibson counsel?
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Tony
Newnan, GA
Too many guitars, not enough time to play
'72 Sho-Bud 6139, '71 Marlen 210
'78 Fender Stringmaster Quad black
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 14 Apr 2022 1:26 pm
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Without a link to the ad, it's impossible to know what you're seeing.
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Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
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Michael Lester
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 14 Apr 2022 5:13 pm Don Helms' guitar
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...Yeah, for some reason earlier today I couldn't post the Facebook listing on this board. It wouldn't come up in the text.
Here is another try posting the Marketplace address:
https://tinyurl.com/yysaw5p9
FWIW... the guitar is offered at $150,000. Located in Hendersonville, TN.
Edited by Brad to display the url correctly using TInyURL.
Last edited by Michael Lester on 14 Apr 2022 5:22 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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Michael Lester
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 14 Apr 2022 5:15 pm Don Helms
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I got the impression somewhere along the way that this guitar was in the Country Music Hall of Fame / Museum?
Is it possible he had two of them? |
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Brad Davis
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Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Apr 2022 7:43 pm
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The listing is by a Marc Helms, so it sounds like it could be the family. Even if it was in the Hall of Fame museum, the family presumably retained ownership and could retrieve the guitar at any time. Don Helms is known for telling a story about retiring the guitar but telling his wife he couldn't get rid of it because it was their "retirement". I don't know if his wife Hazel is even still around, but possibly the family wants to sell the guitar now. Don Helms was known to keep more than one of these old Gibsons around. However the distinctive scratches in the Console Grande label on this guitar appear to match the ones in a photo of Ol' Red in Don Helms' 2005 book, "Settin' The Woods On Fire", p. 128.
Sooooo..... this looks legit. It appears it is THE guitar, and whoever has $150k can have it apparently. |
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Brad Davis
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Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Apr 2022 7:52 pm
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See what I'm talking about here, from the book and zoom in from the fb ad photo. |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Brad Davis
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2022 5:36 am
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| I probably just don't know what I'm talking about, but if it's real then I don't know why the Country Music Hall of Fame, or a similar org perhaps, wouldn't get some donors together if they have to and make or negotiate an offer for this important piece of music history. |
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Brad Bechtel
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Posted 15 Apr 2022 1:44 pm
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I have no financial interest in this item, but I'd highly recommend contacting Gruhn Guitars in Nashville. They will be able to validate the instrument and potentially put it into the right hands.
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Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
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David Ball
From:
North Carolina High Country
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Posted 15 Apr 2022 3:42 pm
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| Brad Davis wrote: |
| I probably just don't know what I'm talking about, but if it's real then I don't know why the Country Music Hall of Fame, or a similar org perhaps, wouldn't get some donors together if they have to and make or negotiate an offer for this important piece of music history. |
A lot of the instruments in the CMHF are on loan from what I understand. I know that Lefty Frizell's J200 that used to be in the museum was sold by the family a number of years back--the CMHF probably didn't really have a say in whether or not it sold or how it did. It was on loan. That guitar still had Lefty's Dentine gum stuck to the back of the peghead when it sold.
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Glenn Wilde
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California, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2022 4:41 pm
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| Maybe a wealthy Nashville studio owner could buy it, it would be a heck of a draw to be able to play and record with "THE" guitar! |
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Tony Oresteen
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Georgia, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2022 4:56 pm
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I suppose they want payment in cash... 
Dang! I'm just a little bit short!
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Tony
Newnan, GA
Too many guitars, not enough time to play
'72 Sho-Bud 6139, '71 Marlen 210
'78 Fender Stringmaster Quad black
PedalMaster D8 |
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Cartwright Thompson
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Posted 16 Apr 2022 2:47 am
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I’d sooner buy Noel Boggs’ quad for, what were they asking..$50K?
Four necks for 1/3 the price of DH’s… more bang for your buck! |
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C. E. Jackson
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Tony Oresteen
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2022 4:21 am
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C.E.
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the video.
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Tony
Newnan, GA
Too many guitars, not enough time to play
'72 Sho-Bud 6139, '71 Marlen 210
'78 Fender Stringmaster Quad black
PedalMaster D8 |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2022 7:17 am
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That was nice! 
Erv |
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joe long
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 18 Apr 2022 7:42 am
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| Thanks for sharing. |
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