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Gutter Find (or just standard UPS delivery?)

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Neo1 said:
Yeah, I see the sexism in it, and even thought that when I was typing it (and though she said it, not me, I'm still guilty of furthering the idea).
As someone who appreciates language, though, I will say that "Probably an upset significant other" doesn't flow as smoothly. :smug: We'll have to come up with a new signifier.
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I vote slam piece. Haha. My fried used to refer to me as her slam piece. I assumed one day we weren’t actually together because of that and she “slammed” my fender jazz bass on the ground outside her 2 story aparment… she called me 4 months later saying she forgave me and we should hang out… she is is still not forgiven.
 
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My guess would be that it was unrepairable (for example, action height of 1" at the 12th fret, neck set costs 10 X the worth of the guitar), set at curb for bulk trash pickup, the scavengers didn't get it, and it fell off the bulky trash truck.
 
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thats painful to look at:bawl:....poor little guitar, it will never play a song again or annoy a bass player with a lead break of 16 bars or more:dead::(

seriously hate seeing any instrument broke up like that, no doubt from some angry spoiled non-musician type...You should bury it right there in a shallow grave..lol
 
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Neo1 said:
Strangely enough, it’s the third guitar I’ve found on the curbside in my neighborhood (the others were not destroyed like this). Maybe the standard work of our local delivery guy?
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Someone is stealing them, finding out they are not worth much or they can not be moved then tossing them.

Or kid is playing it in the back of the car and the parent finally did the "Come back there and throw that dang thing out the window".
 
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Neo1 said:
So I’m out talking my evening walk with my wife, and not two blocks from my house I find this in the gutter – a Royce guitar in several pieces. The headstock is still attached to the bridge by strings, and though one of the pickup covers is bent flat, it’s basically a complete guitar (or at least was).

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A young adult lady is walking on the sidewalk, and I say “Do you think it fell off a car?” She said, “Probably an upset girlfriend.”

There are a few sites with info, but not much. People seem to have used them as starter guitars back in the day.

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Strangely enough, it’s the third guitar I’ve found on the curbside in my neighborhood (the others were not destroyed like this). Maybe the standard work of our local delivery guy?

I’m going to give it to a friend who buys those kits and makes his own guitars and basses – this one didn’t come with directions, but he should be able to figure it out.
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A Pete Townsend wanna be up the street? A frustrated “artist” maybe ??
 
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Vandalism is never short of an excuse.

Girlfriend, boyfriend, ex-friend, non-friend. I have known a number of people who simply thought it was fun to break things. Bottles, instruments, road signs… other people’s cars.

There was once a TV game show of some sort where the contestants had to race to smash a piano to pieces, and fit the pieces through a fairly small hole in a partition.

Seems to be part of the human psyche.
Pretty sad.
 

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