Yesterday was Don Gallagher Appreciation Day in Murfreesboro TN

[Buckocaster51]

I couldn’t attend, but I did dig out this 1969 Gallagher G-45M (12 fret, slot head, Sitka over mahogany), put new Martin Retro Monel light gauge strings on it, and entertained at a graduation party.

This guitar is, without a doubt, one of the 5 best sounding guiars I have ever played. It is light, resonant, very well intonated, set up medium low, and very well aged.

Grandpa Jones played a 000 12-fret from the same year. Doc Watson played a G-50 from the same year on the Will The Circle Be Unbroken album 50 years ago. (That is the one Merle Travis said “…that guitar rings like a bell”)

I have been fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time to have been able to play both the Jones and Watson guitars. (The G-50 is also in the top 5 of best sounding guitars I have played.)

 

[ETMusic777]

Very nice. I went to school at MTSU in Murfreesboro and miss that town very much.

 

[toomuchfun]

Your smile says it all, a happy man and his guitar.

 

[985plowboy]

12 fret slot head D is on my wish list!
Never had the opportunity to play a Gallagher.
But I sure will just as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
A couple Februarys ago I drove up to Murfreesboro and bought my
Martin HD-28V. Had I known about Gallagher then maybe I’d have stopped in.
Probably best I didn’t.

 

[uriah1]

Smile says it all.
Nice when a guitar does that..

 

[Dana Rudd]

Love the smile on your face, you appear to have been having great fun. Nice Gallagher, I always enjoyed Doc Watson playing his.

 

[Buckocaster51]

You all know I have a week spot for Gallagher guitars.

It is fun spotting them in public.

This is Phillip Steinmetz playing Grandpa Jones’ little GC-70, which coincidentally was the last guitar built the year my G-45M was put together. 1969 was a good year in Wartrace TN.

 

[Chiogtr4x]

Not mine, just beautiful!