Not bad for a guitar 3 years shy of her 50th birthday. It is a light golden auburn colour, with rosewood fret-board, old butter button tuners, rosewood bridge, a hand-carved bone nut, and she keeps in tune for up to 6 months just sitting in the case.
She has 18 frets, solid Alpine spruce top, mahogany back and sides, and multicoloured inlays around the sound-hole. Terry Reid, that great unheralded talent, was almost an original member of Led Zeppelin, but his foolish manager turned the offer down, and refused to let Terry out of his contract, even when Atlantic Records founder, Ahmet Ertegun, offered a million dollars to buy him out. This particular Goya G-13 actually rivals Terry Reid's Martin D-26, which I ask him to leave as collateral whenever he borrows the Goya, which has a softer more intimate sound than his Martin. Donovan used the Goya, and my Appalachian dulcimer, on his Atlantis album.
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My guitar, Gitanita, had a full rich voice, but the sounds were soft and gentle, and the quality was so good that people often asked to borrow “her” for recording sessions and gigs. Timothy Leary’s Celebrations, taught me to play simple drones on his José Ramirez, and although his was an older more expensive guitar, when I began to play those same drones on the Goya there was no comparison. My concert partner, Peter Walker, when we provided the music for Dr.
Night and day, guitar adagios filled the incense-scented air. To this day no one knows who brought it, who left it, or the exact details of how it actually came to be there.Īs visitors and suitors came and went, each of them one by one, fell under the spell of this magnificent instrument. One day long ago, and far away, a Goya guitar turned up in my English-style cottage on Larrabee Street in West Hollywood. When a group of people leave their motherland, whether it is by choice, or by force, frequently the only thing they are able to take with them is their music. And rest yourself ‘neath the strength of strings
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