Morris Minor Owners Club

My Ex Girlfriend gave me a load of guitars before we split up and I'm slowly getting rid of them.

Now amongst them is a 'Landola' guitar which she seemed to think was the dogs wotsits so does anyone know owt about this make?

I'd never heard of them, despite far to many years of guitaring, but Google turned up this - http://www.landolaguitars.co.uk/

LATER and also found a few for sale - http://www.hobgoblin.com/local/shbigpic ... de=52W0746
so from the prices, nice but not *THAT* nice...

Hi Dan.
I know abit about guitars.....
Lamnndola's are not among the "sought after" acoustic guitars (eg Martin / Gibson etc) but many manufacturers made good quality playable instruments - but many (60s / 70's) made some real dogs too!. Build quality generally improved across the whole range of acoustic guitars in the 90/s / 00's.
Landola's were made in Finland from 1942 - have a look here to date it
http://www.landolaguitars.co.uk/datinglandola.htm
- bring it down to SADMOG and I'll have a look at it to see what it's like (ref playability / build quality / sound quality etc) - I wouldnt price one and I'm not in the market for one - just in case anyone thought I was gonna try to pull a fast one).
As with any commodity, an item is only worth what a punter is willing to give for it and I'd be surprised if there are a queue of Landola afficionado's (hold's breath and waits a stampede of landola lovers ), but if its good, there'll always be someone after a good guitar at the right price.
Cheers, Mike.

tbh, I have a work colleague who has just lost his guitar after a gig and it was a NICE guitar so I was thinking of giving it to him. But if you are going to come to sadmog this week I shall bring it along. I've already spotted the Landola website and determined that its from '77 but I have other guitars which I prefer the tone of but don't want to give away a guitar which might be worth a littlle.....

Hi Dan - not along to SADMOG this week as I will be in Legoland with 3 children ....

Mike Shipman wrote:not along to SADMOG this week as I will be in Legoland

Legoland? Isn't that near Nomansland?

Mike,

better let your bank manager know you are going - tickets are MEGA expensive......