Hi everyone,

My Dad's in the UK at the moment and he's bought me a couple of acoustics but as he doesn't know anything and can't seem to give me much info i thought you guys could help me out..

The one i am curious about is a Triumph acoustic guitar he bought for 25 euros.. all he said was that its pretty old, probably 1960s, has a small-ish body, steel string, not an archtop, made in Lizenz Germany and probably not solid wood. I don't expect this to be that great but its interesting..

Anyone know anything about these things?

Also there is a Fender F-03, i'm not really expecting a good guitar outta this one either cos Fender acoustics are generally crap in my opinion

Cheers guys

If it is in good condition and looks like this, you may have a winner.

http://plymouth.gumtree.com/plymouth/73/10495573.html

no, it's not an archtop unfortunately. i wish!

I don't know exactly what model that Fender is, but in the '70s Fender took a brief stab at making decent quality American-made solid-wood acoustics. They weren't a Gibson or Martin or anything (Fender got big by first making relatively budget-priced reasonable quality electric guitars), but they were pretty decent (approaching the quality of say a Guild maybe of the same era). It didn't really work out for them I guess and soon they went the Oriental/laminate-wood route. My first brand-new acoustic was an American-made solid-wood Fender. I still have it, and for what it was and what it cost it's still a decent playing and sounding guitar. Actually I guess adjusting $250 early-1970's dollars for inflation, etc it wasn't all that cheap of a guitar back then.

My parents refused to buy me a guitar when I asked for a steel string back in 1974. In 1975 they took me to Sears and got me a nylon string Aria for $99 and they said that was "expensive" All I wanted was an OVATION knock-off from a company called MATRIX....all my friends had one at the time.

I wasn't until I bought a Washburn D15 in 1990 and spent $500+ for it. It was my first real guitar. Unbeknownst to me, I was totally ignorant of humidity issue w/ acoustics and within a few years, the guitar became uplayable. I though that was the nature of guitars, so basically I would have to get another one. In 1995 I plopped $1300 for a real Ovation Elite Standard. One of my best friends owns it today and it still plays like butter.

Ok, I'm rambling now....sorry.

I have the same guitar => a triumph accoustic guitar, but no steel strings, nylons!
My dad bought it in the 60 2nd hand I think.
I like the guitar a lot, it has a very warm sound, but rather than that I don't know nothing about the factory in Lizenz..
You have some info?

greets Matt