1956 Bigsby $28,500

Darryl Hattenhauer · From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

http://www.gbase.com/Stores/Gear/GearDetails.aspx?Item=1773952

It's been for sale a long time (I guess because of the price) but I thought somebody might want to know about it. I don't know anything about the seller or the guitar.

Don Poland · From: Hanover, PA.

I can't help but wonder if Reece wishes he still had that guitar? Oh Well

James Quackenbush · From: Pomona, New York, USA

56 Bigsby .......$28,500 ..........56 Bigsby with Reece's name on it ................Priceless !!!

Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

Way too cheap! Whoa!

Bobbe's got one with the offers starting at $40,000!

Dick Wood · From: Springtown Texas, USA

If I can put two more Hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place I will have the money shortly.

Richard Shelley · From: Denver, CO, USA

That's one hellaciously fine guitar, Darryl, & an interesting web-site. No place for the cheapo, bargain hunter like me, though!

Bent Romnes · From: London,Ontario, Canada

That Birdseye Maple is just like my homebuilt!

Steve Branscom · From: Pacific NW

You know, at $28,500 you can never find Todd Clinesmith's number when you need it.
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James Brown · From: Mt Uniacke, Nova Scotia, Canada

I wonder if they accept cheques. Laughing

Drew Howard · From: 48854

"WOWOWOAHWEEWOWOW!"

Terry Wood · From: Lebanon, MO

Great looking steel! I would like to have heard Reece play it!

I think it was perhaps one of his first steel guitars.

Terry Wood

Eric Stumpf · From: Newbury, NH 03255

Anybody know the ownership history of this guitar? I sort of recall a photo being posted on the Forum several years ago of this guitar in a room with the Jack Homar and Bud Isaacs Bigsby's....taken at Bobbe's, maybe?

Bobbe Seymour · From: Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.

I have total history on this guitar, it's a great, original, unmolested very valuable steel guitar, I even remember the original pedal setup on it. probly still the same.
Triple neck eight string Bigsbys were the most common, then double eights. the ten string guitars are to most valuable unless the heritage factor comes in, like the Bud Isaacs or Webb Pierce doubles eights.
Actually, this guitar at $28.000 may really be a deal, I know it's in great shape, I lost it at fifteen hundred twenty years ago. Thought it was to high! But then I was driving a AC Cobra that I paid five thousand for, YIPE!
Bobbe

Reece Anderson · From: Keller Texas USA, R.I.P.

Great looking guitar. It still looks the way it did the day I received it. I can't remember what I paid for it, but I know it was well over $1000.00 and I waited for years to get it.

Considering how the dollar has changed, I would think that price would possibly be the equivilent of paying $10,000.00 for a guitar today.

As a teenager I had the opportunity to visit Paul Bigsby at his shop and have lunch with him. He was very kind and most certainly a legend in the making at the time. I have always remembered him as a very gracious man and admired how he always immediately responded to every letter and answered every question.

When I received it, I weighed about 20 pounds more than the guitar, but that was something I never thought about, because I had a......Bigsby guitar.

I later sold the guitar to finance my second Bigsby three years later, which was a single 10 with 8 pedals. I remember paying $1040.00 for my second Bigsby, and I kept the original invoice for many years, as well as all the letters I received from Paul Bigsby, but over the years they have disappeared.

I sold the triple neck to a man named John Davis in Dallas, who kept it under his bed with case closed for decades.

The single 10 was shipped to me by train, and the late great Rusty McDonald, (once the featured singer for Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys) went with me to pick it up at the station in Dallas.

Thanks for the thread Darryl, it sure brings back a lot of great memories.....sorry for rambling.

Jussi Huhtakangas · From: Helsinki, Finland

No need to apologize, that's exactly the kind of stories we Bigsby fans want to hear Smile

Mark Durante · From: St. Pete Beach FL

Bobbe and Reese,
we always appreciate your posts

Dan Tyack · From: Olympia, WA USA

Reese,

This has probably been answered elsewhere, but where is that single 10 Bigsby? If you still own it, it would be a treat to hear you play it some time.

Herb Steiner · From: Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064

Dan
I believe Reece's S-10 is owned by forumite Chas Smith, of CA.
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chas smith R.I.P. · From: Encino, CA, USA

It would indeed be a treat to hear Reese play it. BTW, Dan, I have a cd by EARTH, that you play on, very cool. -- cs

Todd Clinesmith · From: Lone Rock Free State Oregon

I owned Maurice Andersons 1956 Bigsby for a while. I bought it from Paul Warnik who bought it from John Davis. I know Paul would not mind me mensioning his name since he had written about the guitar on the forum. It is in excellent condition and sounds and plays great. It is one of the few Bigsby's in original condition with the same set up it originally was ordered with.

Maurice could you talk about the pedal set up on that guitar if you remember.... It was a C6 ( E the highest string) and 4 pedals all lowers.

Here is a photo of the Jeweled necks . The only other I had seen with this feature is Skipper (Ray) Montees

Todd

Reece Anderson · From: Keller Texas USA, R.I.P.

Todd....Thank you for telling me you once had my triple neck. I thought Paul Warnick still had it. I originally told Paul about my friend John Davis in Dallas having the guitar which I had sold him decades earlier.

Thank you for mentioning the tunings I used. I used a 6th tuning on the middle neck with the 3rd on top. The bottom neck had a 13th tuning, and the top neck had a tuning which is a little different in that the top 4 strings were tuned (top to bottom) 5th, 3rd, root, 6th, and the last 4 strings were tuned with the same interval, only a full tone lower. This provided two 6th tunings in one, and in the middle it provided a great sounding Major 7th.

Chas....Thank you for posting the picture of my S-10 Bigsby. I was thinking it had 8 pedals, but obviously it didn't. I put a right knee right knee lever on the guitar, is it still on there?

I used that guitar while playing most of my jobs with Bob Wills.

Also I'm sure you found Willie Nelson's signature on the guitar. It can only be seen when the light hits it at a certain angle. I was playing with him, he was asked to sign an autograph and he used the front of your guitar as a desk, and the pressure of the pen put it into the finish.

I appreciate very much seeing both my Bigsby guitars. I loved both guitars, and its nice to know they each have found a great home with someone who loves them as much as I did.

Dan Tyack · From: Olympia, WA USA

Thanks, Chas,

I thought you might be one of the 1% on this forum who would like that album (it's best in vinyl, they did a great job).

I know I for one would fly down to LA to listen to Reese play that guitar. Maybe others agree...

That's got to be about the prettiest pedal steel I've ever seen.

Reece Anderson · From: Keller Texas USA, R.I.P.

Dan....Thank you for your kind words. I would like nothing better than to meet you next time I'm in California. I have been an admirer of your playing for many years, and always appreciated your kind demeanor on the forum.

Everything about the Bigsby is a testament to the genius of the man who built them. Possibly he knew things then, that yet today we don't know.

For instance, it was always a mystery to me why the space between frets 8 and 9, were "wider" than the space between frets 7 and 8. When playing Bigsby's I never once felt intonation problems existed.

The normal graduation of the distance between the frets becomes smaller from left to right,...however when considering the genius of the man who built them, I have to wonder why, which is the reason it has always been a mystery to me. I wish I had asked him years ago when I had the opportunity.

Herb Steiner · From: Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064

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