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My Greco acoustic guitar was “designed, serviced
and adjusted by Goya Guitars, Inc.” according to the claim on the
label inside the body, visible through the sound hole.
It was made in Yugoslavia, and is a model number GR7, serial
number 00701. I bought it around 1970 or '71 and sold it in March 2003.
In June 2010, I got curious and did some on-line
research to see if I could find more on this guitar. I found a
website
that had a Greco guitar catalog from around 1965 posted. I
have posted the page from it showing the GR-7. According
to this, the GR-7 is a steel string flat top Spanish guitar. It
has a natural color spruce top. The back and sides are highly
polished brown mahogany and the fingerboard and pin bridge are
rosewood. There is a reinforcing-adjusting rod in the neck.
It has a celluloid pick guard, white binding on the front and back of
the body and around the sound hole. It is a concert size, which is smaller than a dreadnaught style.
The MSRP at that time was $84.50.
The original tuning pegs had plastic knobs.
They eventually began to break, so I replaced all six pegs with chrome,
open-gear knobs.
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