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by Timothy Higgins
(Missouri)

My wife had the guitar sitting in a case in a back room for more than 15 years, when I approached her about the guitar I asked why she had never played it, she said that it needed some work.

When I opened the case I found that the bridge was comming off of the face, I asked how long it had been like this and why she had never had it repaired, she said no one ever played it or wanted to spend the money repairing it.

When I told her I would have it repaired and pay for it she seemed surprised so I took it to a local music store and asked if they knew of a good guitar repair person. They informed me that they had an excellent repair person and could have it fixed.

Well needless to say, they got it fixed up in short order and did a great job too! My wife said that the voice of that guitar just wanted to be heard again so she gave me the guitar since I was the only one who ever played it and play it almost daily, love the sound.

A year after it was fixed I had to send it back in to repair the keys. I guess the years of neglect left them brittle, who would have guessed that a 20+ year old Alvarez would sound so good!

P.S....He's the father of our guitar family now have 4 other guitars and a ukele!