Guitar Archeology » Grand Funk Railroad http://www.guitararcheology.com Vintage Guitars, Modern Guitars, Amps, the People and Stories that go with them. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:17:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Original 1967 Musicraft Messenger http://www.guitararcheology.com/2010/01/original-1968-musicraft-messenger/ http://www.guitararcheology.com/2010/01/original-1968-musicraft-messenger/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:20:44 +0000 admin http://www.guitararcheology.com/?p=814 dsc000011

The original Messenger guitar was developed 40 years ago in California by a small company named Musicraft and is now best known as the guitar of choice by Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad) in the early 1970’s. Messenger guitars were built in San Francisco and then Astoria, OR from 1967-1968.  Features an aluminum alloy tuning fork neck extending through the thin-line hollowbody. This model is a stereo guitar.  Messenger also made a guitar with a built-in fuzztone called a Tone-Messer, a bass guitar, and a line of large amplifiers.

Guitar Player Messenger Guitars Art Thompson ,Apr 20, 2006

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