--- Seth Hamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> this site has the pics...  
> http://home.comcast.net/~musictreasures/antmisc.htm

Ok That's what I was looking at....
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  
> Unfortunately the photos are unavailable on this one. The Mirecourt
> builders
> (the Colsons and Thouvenels) built very few lutebacks, and I'm always
> skeptical when I see one advertised. There was one around a few years
> ago
> where it was obviously the keybox and bridges and tailpiece from a
> guitar-shaped Colson that had been obviously grafted onto a newer
> luteback
> body.
> 
> We had the honor of restoring a genuine luteback Colson several years
> ago. 
> It's a beauty. It went to a player in the Seattle area.
> 
>... I
> > really am not in the market for an antique restoral until I have
> one to
> > play....

Well, I believe I have a functioning knob this time. I made it out of a
doorknob and it "just fits" so maybe I can play for awhile. I'm still
not ready for a restoral. If I was I'd bug Alden and Cali about that
U/I trilobal tenor with the plastic inlays. I know I look horible in
red but...but...but...

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