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Gretsch Players Edition 6609 Broadkaster

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July 2018

It’s been a while since I wrote about my long term Gretsch

- Neville Marten

Gretsch Players Edition 6609 Broadkaster

. And to be honest a while since I played it in any kind of anger. That’s mainly because the kind of gig I might use it on hasn’t really presented itself. I was going to have it as my main guitar on a rock ’n’ roll tour late last year but in the end my ES-335 won the day, primarily because I knew it better and it didn’t feel right to test out an unfamiliar instrument on someone else’s dollar.

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