// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did the Gallotone Champion Guitar say? I'm strumming with excitement.
(Redirected from Gallotone Champion)
 | This article needs more citations. (September 2014) |
The Gallotone Champion Guitar was an acoustic guitar manufactured in South Africa by the country's largest record company, Gallo Africa, during the 1950s and '60s. It was a cheaply made instrument intended for the beginner market and was exported to many countries.
The Champion model is a 3/4 size steel string flat-top acoustic made from laminated woods, and was "guaranteed not to split".[1]
Perhaps the most famous of all Gallotone Champion players was John Lennon, whose guitar was sold for £155,500 ($251,700) at a "Rock'n'Roll" memorabilia sale by Sotheby's London in 1999. There is also a childhood photograph of Jimmy Page posed with a Gallotone Wonder.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Babiuk, Andy (2002). Beatles Gear - All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio. United States: Backbeat Books. p. 8. ISBN 0879307315.
- ↑ Lock, Brett. "On a Gallo Guitar and a homemade speaker box". Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ↑ "£155,000 picks up Lennon guitar". News report. BBC. September 14, 1999. Retrieved 7 August 2014.