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The Sound Of Music
Strictly in the interests of guitar research, I watched some of "The Sound Of Music" on tv today, to see what kind of guitar Julie Andrews played.
The research was painful. The guitar is a nylon string Goya. Aha!! An anachronism - Goyas weren't made before the war. I'll never watch that movie again, such inaccuracy.
A trivia note: In the late 1950s Julie Andrews recorded an album (of children's nursery rhymes) orchestrated and arranged, and featuring, the legendary Moondog. No Levin guitar, as far as I know.
norman
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Permalink Reply by Magnus Hultin on -
For the record, the guitar used in the movie is a Goya F-19, which was in the series of "Folk Guitars" developed for the North American market. If studied carefully it can be seen that the guitar in the movie has a pin-bridge.
These Guitars were designed for steelstrings but were often used with strings of brand Bella, which I think is a kind of hybrid-string.
Goran Levin told me about this guitar, which was specially prepared for the movie-set, by making it in matte finish, to avoid reflections from the lights used by the camera-men. What they did forget (the movie people) was to remove the logotype, obviousley nothing that Levin or Herschman Music prioritised.
Here is a picture from the movie-set where the guitar is very visible. the F-19 was the "grand concert size", same as G-17, G-20, G-30 and G-40, but had the same neck as the F-25 and F-27. A 12 fret neck slightly narrower than a classical and with an aluminum T-shaped trussrod.
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