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Betty guitar
                                                                                                                          $3900   &  s/h   SALE  $2925 & S/H

This electric guitar was named after the owner's beloved Mother, Betty Severton, a piano teacher in Lima, Ohio. She taught lessons in her 3rd floor walk-up on an old Baldwin Acrosonic spinet piano. When she finally got evicted in 1965, for nonpayment of rent, she hired 3 high school boys to help her move it. They decided to lower it out the window with an old rope and 2 leather belts. Betty, directing from below, was flattened when 1 of the belts slipped and sent 300 pounds of unfettered spinet onto her head. Emotionally as crushed as his Mother was physically, Kyle Severton made most of this guitar out of the bits and pieces of piano he recovered as well as his Mother's good silver pie server. He wanted her symbolically with him and she loved pie. He went on to play in several now defunct bands trying to fuse Surf Rock with Gospel. He eventually quit to lay brick.

SPECIFICATIONS:

- Body Style: Modified Strat style

- Pickup: Single Vintage Black Dimarzio Pickup x2N Power Plus
               - Single Humbucker

- 1 Volume, 1 Tone

- Construction: Bolt on Neck

- Scale: 628mm (Full Scale)

- Machine Heads: Chrome

- Strings: New Ernie Ball Slinky Strings

- Design Elements: Distressed Multimedia: Silverplate, Brass, Chrome, Nickel Plate