I have a data base of several thousand Neumann delivery dates, complete with recipients. Unfortunately, there is no institutional memory at Neumann about this anymore The old hands have all retired.

You wouldn't have any reason to question a Neumann employee. The instrument comes with its original hard case.No need to apologize. Pickups are unmolested with no signs of a rewind with pot codes matching Centralab 34th week of 1965. The serial number 3042 drops the guitar into the '65-'66 range with the neck dating Dec. This lovely rare blue example is from 1965 and has all the design and production traits of a guitar from that period including the unbound German carved body, bolt-on neck, small Mosrite logo, Mosrite Mosley Tremolo/tailpiece and V and T short Mosrite knobs. Mosrite Ventures model guitars have many unique features compared to other historic American marques and Moseley was not afraid to do things differently, all Ventures Models do share some common traits, notably, a reverse-style double-cutaway body, slim neck with zero-fret and steel guide nut and low Mosrite speed frets, proprietary Mosrite vibrato and bridge, proprietary fat single-coil pickups and The Ventures' headstock.ĭue to the nature of construction the Ventures Model went through various changes during it's original 1963-1969 production. The band struck an endorsement deal with Mosrite and The Ventures Model went into production. In 1963 he met Nokie Edwards of the Ventures, who liked what Semie was up to.

South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (GBP £)įounded By Semie Moseley in the mid-1950's after a time working with Roger Rossmeisl at Rickenbacker Mosrite spent the early part of their production concentrating on custom, handmade guitars including double and triple neck instruments, most notably a double neck guitar for Joe Maphis.

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