Frank Gay was the first luthier I ever met. I was a newsboy and I remember first seeing pictures of Frank's guitars in the Star Weekly. When I first joined the military one of my fellow recruits had a Fender Jazzmaster which he sold in order to get Frank Gay to build him the guitar of his dreams. Years later Frank did a "set-up" on my old SJ and I got to see his workshop (garage) and his guitars. Still later I was picking with a friend from Calgary who plays a Frank Gay banjo. He was telling me about his "custom" banjo and I told him that I knew the guy who built it. I also must say that Frank was an excellent classical guitarist (classicly trained no less) and a really nice man.
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