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. Rancho Cucamonga (11.13 miles). Glendora (11.15 miles). Brea (13.91 miles). Block at Orange (19.39 miles). Moreno Valley (23.24 miles).
Monterey Park (23.71 miles). San Bernardino (24.62 miles). Pasadena (25.18 miles). Cerritos (25.26 miles).
Fountain Valley (25.65 miles). Lake Forest (26.85 miles). Hollywood (38.47 miles). South Bay (39.31 miles).
Murrieta (40.8 miles). West L.A. (42.41 miles). Sherman Oaks (44.25 miles). Palmdale (48.79 miles).
Northridge (52.17 miles). Stevenson Ranch (56.9 miles). Westlake Village (64.25 miles). San Marcos (68.49 miles). Palm Desert (76.17 miles). Oxnard (85.16 miles).
La Mesa (93.58 miles)6+7+0+5+2+9+5+2+8+8+1+2. ExcellentThis product is in 'like new' condition and shows little to no signs of use. Free from blemishes, scratches, and user wear. All controls are completely functional. GreatThis product shows little signs of use and all controls are completely functional. It may have minor surface scratches.
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GoodThis product is completely functional and shows some signs of use. It may have surface scratches and/or dings and dents. FairThis product is functional but shows signs of heavy use that could include, but not limited to; scratches, dings, dent, chips, and worn parts/controls. PoorThis product shows significant cosmetic and functional wear. It may need repair and/or part(s) replaced.
I was over at a friend's house in what must have been the summer of 1964. Someone said 'Come see what's on the T.V.!' What I saw not only changed my life from that moment on, but literally millions of other kids and teenagers in America and around the world. The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show actually made me notice the electric guitar for the first time. Afterwards, I remember very clearly drawing pictures of electric guitars on my notebook in the sixth grade before I really knew what they were supposed to look like!It wasn't too terribly long before guitars started showing up in the neighborhood and being in a band was the ultimate thing to do. Looking back we played some pretty cool instruments in those days.
Ones that are now sought after by collectors the world over.Around 1971, I visited a used and 'vintage' guitar shop in Houston and it was all over. This place was a funky lowdown hole in the wall full of what most people at the time would have considered junk. I think at that moment I was 'lost' to the guitar as a 'piece of art,' as much or maybe even more so than actually playing it. Within a month, buying used and vintage guitars became a real obsession and I could hardly think of anything except playing guitars and hunting for them.Before the year was out I had teamed up with a friend and we formed what would later become Houston's oldest and longest running 'guitar shop' to date.
During the following ten years we came to be known as the source for repairs, refinishing, and classic instruments in the Texas Gulf Coast area. We bought, sold, traded and repaired thousands of guitars from all manufacturers, acoustic and electric, American and foreign.A departure from guitar shop life and a commitment to guitar building was a radical change from those formative years.
That 'obsession' of buying, selling, repairing, restoring, and customizing countless classic vintage and modern guitars soon became the foundation of Robin quality and design. After many hard years of cutting wood and dreaming 'the dream,' we continue to push forward with new designs and strive for even higher levels of craftmanship and quality.We get up each morning with one thing in mind. To make a better guitar. Just as a musician creates his music for others to listen to, we at Robin build guitars for people to play. That is the ultimate reward!Every day we receive calls from people wanting to know about an 'old' Robin guitar they have bought or are thinking about buying. What model is this? When was it made?
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How much did it cost new? This is the greatest! Where is the nearest Robin dealer? Please send more information!It's responses like this that motivate us to be a better guitar company. Not always easy, but always gratifying. Keep your calls, letters, and emails coming!
They keep us going! Thanks!David WintzPresident, Robin GuitarsDavid WintzReversal of Fortune by Willie MosleyReprinted from Vintage Guitar Magazine.not that there was anything wrong with the business fortunes of the President of Robin Guitars & Basses to start with. Instead, the subtitle of this interview is a 'double pun ' concerning two facts: (1) Robin brand instruments were originally made overseas and are now completely handmade in Houston, Texas, and, (2) Robin instruments were the first to have an entire line with 'reverse-style' headstocks; the earliest Robins had a slightly down-sized, 'Explorer'- type head-stock, and the whole lineup maintained an upside down look until recent times.Conversing with the contemporary guitar builder in his Houston office was an enlightening experience. Wintz was born and raised in Houston; there was, as most readers might suspect, a connection with the local musical instrument retailer known as Rockin Robin (details later), but we began by asking Wintz about times prior to the Rockin Robin connection:VG: What about your guitar experiences prior to the Rockin Robin days?DW: I started playing guitar when I was thirteen; it was strictly a British Invasion thing. It wasn't long after seeing the Beatles play in ' Ed Sullivan ' that I got hooked on wanting to play the guitar. My first guitar was a used pre CBS Mustang, which was actually a loaner from a music store until my shiny new red Mustang came in.
I even remember at the time that the new one was 'funky', in the negative sense, compared to the pre-CBS one; I didn't like the CBS one nearly as well. The fingerboard looked dried out, and it wasn't nearly as comfortable. As a kid, I was thinking that a new guitar should have been better than a used one, and looking back, I remembered such things about good features of vintage instruments when I began designing my own brand.I traded the CBS Mustang in on an Epiphone Casino; the Beatles influenced that choice as well (chuckles)! In the late Sixties I got out of playing for a few years. Then around 1970 a friend of mine took me to Specialty Guitar Shop here in Houston; they had a lot of old stuff and it really zapped me; from that moment on I was a 'guitar hound', going into pawn shops on a regular basis. I bought things like a mid-Sixties orange Gretsch 6120 with painted-on f-holes, and a midSixties Epiphone Sheraton.VG: What about your playing experiences?DW: Around the time I went into Specialty, I was just starting to play again, so the interests paralleled each other.
I haven't worked at any job since then that didn't have to do with guitars. I played in a local band; it was all original music that was basic rock and roll, then we got into art rock, Yes-type stuff. We didn't play a lot, but it was a good experience. Then in the summer of 1972 Bart Wittrock and I started up Rockin Robin.VG: Where did the store name come from?DW: the song; 'tweet-tweet'(chuckles). It fit the image of what we were trying to accomplish. Bart and I hit it off from the very start, and worked together for years; we moved to about five different locations as the business grew.VG: The next obvious inquiry is about the advent of the Robin brand.DW: We were at a NAMM show in Chicago; Tokai was exhibiting there. They were exhibiting some funky-looking new models, but we'd seen their cool replicas of old Strats, and we asked why they didn't have any there.
They escorted us into a small room in their exhibit, which was chock full of replica guitars like that 'Love Rock' Les Paul style they made, plus Strat copies. The bottom line is that we ended up buying every thing they had there; about twenty guitars.
Once we sold those, we opted to get Tokai to manufacture some of our own designs, which included a smaller, reverse-Explorer type headstock. We went through hundreds of names, and settled on 'Robin', which wasn't the same as 'Rockin Robin', but it was similar. We didn't want to use either of our last names, and my middle name is Gibson, so that got ruled out as well (laughs)! The name Robin can apply to a man a woman; it's a folk hero's name; it couldn't be misspelled or mispronounced.This was still kind of a part-time thing; there was no long-term plan and we weren't a couple of luthiers.VG: The photo of you in the updated version of American Guitars shows you with the first Robin guitar; in addition to the reverse Explorer headstock, it appears to have a bound, Strat-shaped body.DW: Exactly; that's an' 82 guitar. Due to copyrights, we couldn't do a traditional looking Strat copy. We were definitely the first to have a reverse headstock on a bolt on neck; Firebirds were sort of reversed but had banjo type tuners.
Fiat ecu scan keygen working 2016. There wasn't any 'deep' marketing concept behind the reverse headstock; we just thought it looked cool. We couldn't tell that there was any audible difference; it was strictly visual.