MY CASINO GUITAR IN NORWAY

MY CASINO GUITAR IN NORWAY
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I wrote up the story of my Casino guitar starting on page 157 of my book The Sands of Pima Arroyo. The chapter title is The Joy of Catalogs and My Casino Guitar. Read it here.

ALSO: Read Chapter 6 "Vancouver" here.

Here's how the chapter ends:

   .....I tried the guitar out again and again and I couldn’t get any sound. It was like holding a microphone up to the guitar. No sound. No joy.
     I could have just put in hum-bucking pickups out of the same catalog instead of the dog eared P-90 single coils, but then the Casino wouldn’t look or sound like a Casino.

     Online I found that there was a guitar pickup guru who lived up around Vancouver. I emailed him and he replied that the covers on the Korean P-90s were too thick, and it muffled the sound of the strings. He could rebuild the innards, however. I took the pickups off the guitar and mailed them to him, and he rebuilt them and sent them back. The guy in the local music store installed them for me and we tried out the new guitar.
“Now it’s doing what it should be doing,” he said.

But I was sick of the Casino. My dream had died. A friend of mine had a business on Ebay and she helped me sell the guitar to some guy in Norway. He got a good deal because he got the case too and the super smokin’ guru-made pickups......

My blonde casino takes center stage to open the 2018 Oyafestivalen music festival in Oslo, Norway.jpg

My blonde casino takes CENTER STAGE to open the 2018 Oyafestivalen music festival in Oslo!

      En 2005 compré una guitarra de un catálogo. Era una Casino del tipo que usaba John Lennon. La guitarra que me enviaron había sido fabricada en Corea y las pastillas eran terribles. La devolví y me enviaron otra cuyas pastillas eran terribles también. No quería pedir otro reemplazo. Ya que todavía quería esa marca de guitarra, envié las pastillas a un tipo que era conocido como el "Gurú de las Pastillas". Él vivía en Victoria y las reconstruyó. Las nuevas pastillas eran muy buenas pero a fin de cuentas yo estaba harto de la guitarra y la vendí en Ebay a un noruego. Años pasaron y un día encontré el recibo de Ebay y vi el nombre del hombre que la compró. Hice una búsqueda en Google y vi muchas fotos de él tocando mi guitarra. Yo estaba contento porque era obvio que a él le gustaba la guitarra y que todavía la tocaba.

     Durante el viaje a Vancouver en 2017, yo fui a Victoria. Lo que más me impresionó era el tamaño del ferry que me llevó a la isla. Era simplemente enorme. Fui al muelle en un autobús que entró en el ferry y se estacionó en la bodega donde había quizás una docena de otros autobuses. Alguien a bordo me dijo que el ferry iba a ser vendido a una empresa Polaca para usar en el mar Báltico. Planifiqué el viaje de Vancouver de 2017 con bastante cuidado y me sorprendió la precisión de mis planes; mi tour por el puerto de Vancouver se realizó sin problemas y cogí todos los autobuses sin falta.

I sold my Casino in May 2005 on Ebay. The guy's name in Norway was Raymond Tungesvik. Through San Google I looked him up and immediately saw the Casino. I guess it must be mine. I never see them in searches and what are the chances?

Anyway, I'm not sure if Raymond Tungesvik is the guy in the pictures and I'm done trying to find out, but here on the page you'll see what I'm sure is my casino in Norway! Isn't this interesting?

Here's my mailing receipt. Click to enlarge. Hit the backbutton to return here:

Is this cat with the Casino Raymond Tungesvik? I hope he likes the guitar. Seems to.
Raymond Tungesvik's Facebook page shows a guy with a different look with the guitar.
Perhaps this redhead is his friend to whom he has lent the guitar.