I’ve been prowling around the Web, trying to find information on the guitar I bought for T yesterday, and I’m finding some surprises. Information on Epiphone PR-100s is pretty easy to locate, but most of the references in English talk about the PR-100/NA, which isn’t what T has. Hers is a PR-100/NS, and at first I thought the “NS” only identified the satin finish. (“S” for “satin”, right?)
It appears not. Every reference to a PR-100/NS I’ve found has been in some other language: German (there are lots of German references), Slovakian, French . . . nothing at all in English. The obvious conclusion is this must be an axe that somebody bought in Germany and brought back here. Which is certainly possible, since the pawnshop where I bought it is just south of an area of apartment complexes stuffed full of students, and students keep doing Junior Year Abroad in Europe and things. And then they come back home and they’re flat broke so they go to the pawn shop with their stereos and Xboxes and German guitars, and because they’re students and flat broke they can’t get the stereos and Xboxes and German guitars back out of hock, which means people like me buy German guitars in Austin pawnshops.
Wild. T has a German guitar. Well, so do I; my Höfner HF-11 is a German export model as well. Don’t ask me how we got on this jag of “Gitarren vom Rhein.” It’s serendipity or coincidence, I suppose.
Ho Chi Minh harasses a shifty saber with Jean Seberg. Fnord.
