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Jon Irsik


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Wichita, KS USA
Post  Posted 4 May 2018 7:59 am    
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This old MSA is owned by a lady not far from me and I thought it was an interesting guitar, it was owned by her Father and she thought he purchased it new from MSA in the early 1970's. I haven't seen many of them with this old style logo, anyone want to venture a guess how old this guitar might be? I don't have a better picture of the guitar...it seems to have been custom ordered with 10 pedals and two knee levers on the right.

I saw Don Helms with Ernest Tubb in 1973 or 1974 and he was playing one of these, that's about the only other one I recall seeing.

Thanks in advance!
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Michael Lee Allen

 

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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
Post  Posted 4 May 2018 8:37 am    
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Donny Hinson

 

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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
Post  Posted 4 May 2018 9:48 am     Re: Info on old MSA?
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Jon Irsik wrote:
This old MSA is owned by a lady not far from me and I thought it was an interesting guitar, it was owned by her Father and she thought he purchased it new from MSA in the early 1970's. I haven't seen many of them with this old style logo, anyone want to venture a guess how old this guitar might be?


I'd guess it's a '70 or'71, made just before the "Micro" transition in '72. It's a newer model than the ones shown in the brochure that Michael posted, which is what they looked like back in the '60s. I saw my first one on the Opry stage in 1966, and they started production a couple of years before that.
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Jon Irsik


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Wichita, KS USA
Post  Posted 4 May 2018 10:32 am    
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Thank you gentlemen!
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Lee Baucum


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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
Post  Posted 4 May 2018 12:00 pm    
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This one has the metal neck "extensions" where the pickups are mounted.
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