Guitar Archeology » Musicraft 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 Musicraft Messenger http://www.guitararcheology.com/2010/08/musicraft-messenger/ http://www.guitararcheology.com/2010/08/musicraft-messenger/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:17:08 +0000 admin http://www.guitararcheology.com/?p=1188 The fairytale continues!  Music craft did not create the
Messenger. The patent they used belonged to Glen F.Burke, my Father. Dad made
hundreds of custom guitars between 1960-1965, BEFORE MusicCraft took over. His
company was the Tuning Fork Guitar Company. Started in Springfield. Dad opened the
shop program at Tongue Point, Astoria, Oregon. For three years BEFORE MusicCraft  he
created a kit that kids  at the Job Corp could build. THESE were beautiful, some with
unique shapes, some covered with cowhide, and tooled leather. All of them with the
signature patented neck that Messenger used.
I have received emails from men who created some of those guitars at tongue
point. I have some of my dad’s guitars, and they are still one of the best
sounding instruments around.
I am surprised more people haven’t realized the Tuning Fork Guitar Company
precededthe Messenger by at least 8 years. I have news paper
articles,with Dad in his shop holding his signature neck. I think it’s time he is
given credit.

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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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