Welcome Paradoxers!
This blogspot will be our new home to share updates on everyone's new cd's, links to music venues, and other activities.
You can also post remembrances, photos, and any other memorabilia you would like to share. It would be great if this could become like an archive for the Paradox -- then and now.
More information to follow as I figure this out. In the meantime, please add your comments and keep the site alive and growing.
On a side note, a little history. While watching this video, I saw an old picture of Dick with what looks like an extremely clean and extremely rare example of the Holy Grail of Dreadnought guitars, a Ditson Style 111. These guitars were made by Martin from 1916 to 1921, and only 7 were made during that time. In 1923 Harry Hunt, the general manager of the Oliver Ditson Company, asked Martin to make some more of this model 111. Looking at the bridge on Dick's guitar, I believe that this particular guitar was one of the 19 made between 1923 and 1930, and it is the much more desirable guitar because the later models have the X bracing, whereas the early style 111's were fan braced. The guitar looks nearly brand new in the picture.
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On a side note, a little history. While watching this video, I saw an old picture of Dick with what looks like an extremely clean and extremely rare example of the Holy Grail of Dreadnought guitars, a Ditson Style 111. These guitars were made by Martin from 1916 to 1921, and only 7 were made during that time. In 1923 Harry Hunt, the general manager of the Oliver Ditson Company, asked Martin to make some more of this model 111. Looking at the bridge on Dick's guitar, I believe that this particular guitar was one of the 19 made between 1923 and 1930, and it is the much more desirable guitar because the later models have the X bracing, whereas the early style 111's were fan braced. The guitar looks nearly brand new in the picture.
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