"Hank Marvin" Gretsch on eBay!!
Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 11:59The ShadowMusic Web Community
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"Hank Marvin" Gretsch on eBay!!
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Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 11:59Re: "Hank Marvin" Gretsch on eBay!!
Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 12:17.
Re: "Hank Marvin" Gretsch on eBay!!
Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 12:41That one has been listed and re-listed for a few months now.
It isn't the same as Hank's example, a 1960 model, which had the thinner body, a zero fret and the later-type "V-cut" Gretsch-branded Bigsby.
JN
It isn't the same as Hank's example, a 1960 model, which had the thinner body, a zero fret and the later-type "V-cut" Gretsch-branded Bigsby.
JN
Re: "Hank Marvin" Gretsch on eBay!!
Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 18:45At least they mention that it's a replica built in 2007, not the genuine one shortly owned by Hank Marvin, which didn't use it on "many" records !
Didier
Didier
Re: "Hank Marvin" Gretsch on eBay!!
Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 20:15Didier wrote:At least they mention that it's a replica built in 2007, not the genuine one shortly owned by Hank Marvin, which didn't use it on "many" records !
Didier
"Shortly owned"?
Hank owned his Gretsch for about twelve years!
Bruce obviously had his own Gretsch 6120 by 31st December 1960 (he played it on British TV that evening and he has stated that he bought a Gretsch after Hank bought his 6122). And Hank sold his Gretsch (via what had by then become the Baldwin-Burns retail shop at St Giles Circus) in 1972...
JN
Re: "Hank Marvin" Gretsch on eBay!!
Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 20:52Thanks to JimN I owned a 1960 Gretsch 6122 for around three years before selling it back to the shop that I bought it from and getting my money back. 
The model that MG are selling is the same shape, but feels and sounds nothing like the one I had, while I had the 1960 model I ordered what I believed to be same model by mistake from Sound Control and when it came I was disappointed as it was a lot heavier and much deeper from back to front, as well as the Bigsby being different. Had it been identical I would have kept it, but opted for the double cut Junior 6122 instead which had the correct appointments but on a smaller, but similarly shaped body - I love it.
The model that MG are selling is the same shape, but feels and sounds nothing like the one I had, while I had the 1960 model I ordered what I believed to be same model by mistake from Sound Control and when it came I was disappointed as it was a lot heavier and much deeper from back to front, as well as the Bigsby being different. Had it been identical I would have kept it, but opted for the double cut Junior 6122 instead which had the correct appointments but on a smaller, but similarly shaped body - I love it.
Re: "Hank Marvin" Gretsch on eBay!!
Posted: 04 Feb 2011, 06:38The Gretsch?
Re: "Hank Marvin" Gretsch on eBay!!
Posted: 04 Feb 2011, 18:55Intersting combination of BURNS and Gretsch on the pic !
What do the experts mean?
Hans
What do the experts mean?
Hans
Re: "Hank Marvin" Gretsch on eBay!!
Posted: 04 Feb 2011, 23:08I was listening to a radio interview with Hank regarding a Gretsch on a site somewhere recently and tried to find it again but it's transcribed here with more information
http://www.oldboys.se/dokument/gretsch.htm
best wishes
Rosemary
http://www.oldboys.se/dokument/gretsch.htm
best wishes
Rosemary
Re: "Hank Marvin" Gretsch on eBay!!
Posted: 04 Feb 2011, 23:21Intersting combination of BURNS and Gretsch on the pic !
plus a Fender.
