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I am so excited about this guitar and so happy I had the winning bid with Heritage Auctions!
I received a B.A. in Anthropology in college and was an archaeologist for awhile. I love artifacts and I love ES-175's so bidding on this was a no-brainer. I plan on doing nothing to this guitar other than repairing the crack mentioned in the description. The duct tape and duct tape residue has been on this guitar for at least 40 years. It is what makes it uniquely Tommy Tedesco's.
The upside of this is, if I ever want to gig with it, I can put some duct tape over the f-hole and not worry about marring the finish!
Ted
Ron Escheté playing Tommy's guitar
With Charlie Chiarenza, John Pisano, Frank Zappa and Joe Pass
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11-10-2018 08:56 PM
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Wow, wow, congratulations!
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dude, that's sort of a get.
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Very cool! Looking forward to your field notes!
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Congrats, Ted!
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Congrats! Lot of talented DNA there to absorb....
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I wonder how many recordings were played with that guitar? Congrats on a great find.
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Congrats -- great find!
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Very cool. Are you going to re-fret it?
It needs a refinish. The cracked lacquer!!! And that heehaw duct tape!!! Off to Restore and Repair it goes. It requires a new top, for sure. It has to come back looking like it has never been owned.
Play it in good health, you. I wonder what records and soundtracks Tommy played it on.
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I’d venture to guess that if you don’t play on a hit song for as long as you own that guitar, it won’t be the guitars fault! Wow. If there is such a thing as mojo, you find it in spades with that guitar.
Get yourself a hanging wall case and display that piece of music history proudly. Amazing!
Joe D
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Wow, that is really cool.
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Wow
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I'd be scared to touch it! Congratulations.
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I can't seem to get this song out of my head.
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I grew up on Tedesco. I first learned about him on early 60s Billy Strange guitar records. ..about the only headliner to credit the individual Wrecking Crew folks.
Great guitar!
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Wow, great guitar to own and play!
I also see they had an ES-150 of Tedescos. Wonder where that one went.
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Here is a famous theme song on which I believe this guitar performed, starting at about the 0:23 mark it sounds like an ES-175 coming in. Howard Roberts was on this recording, too....
Edit: Now upon listening to this several times, I am guessing it was Tommy at the beginning with his Telecaster and then Howard comes in after about 20 seconds with the arpeggios.Last edited by Easy2grasp; 11-17-2018 at 10:39 PM.
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Don't forget to change the nut, tuners, pickups, and other electronics while you're at it.
Originally Posted by Jabberwocky
Very cool. Are you going to re-fret it?
It needs a refinish. The cracked lacquer!!! And that heehaw duct tape!!! Off to Restore and Repair it goes. It requires a new top, for sure. It has to come back looking like it has never been owned.
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Gotta love that Van Epps String Damper too. It looks like an original built by George himself. If you're interested, more info on this Scotty Moore page... Scotty Moore - String Dampers
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Woof! Change nothing.
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tommy t's classic no shiz given attitude only works if you are tommy tedesco!...honor the guitar..it needs it..i'm not saying drop double humbuckers into it, but naptha that tape gook right off...
can't imagine, in the future, a tommy tedesco museum piece is gonna make much difference to most...sadly...so treat the guitar right in the meantime...hopefully the guitar will outlast its pedigree
he'd be the first one crackin up about the idea of you keeping it pristine tedesco!!
cheers
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I made the mistake of following the many emails Heritage sent me, I DID look at the Tedesco pieces - especially the ES175 and the ES150... But I've spent enough money with those folks and had a feeling I'd be going toe to toe with someone from here. Funny thing, the day I decided NO on those pieces was the day I found the Unity ES-5...
Congratulations on a fabulous guitar find. Don't touch a doggone thing on her. Pat Metheny toured for years with his old ES175 and it had duct tape holding it together in more places, never hurt how it sounded, well at least in his hands.
Too cool for school
Big
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Man, that's a great find up there with Herb Ellis 165, Scotty Moore's 295, etc. I don't think I would change a thing other than if it's not playable to make it playable. Cosmetically I wouldn't touch it.
I would think about buying or building a frame to go around it and display it with a picture of Tommy with that guitar. If you can get such a picture autographed by him, that will enhance the collectability quite a bit. (I know from watching Antiques Roadshow like a fanatic.)
Or maybe a quote from Tommy--“Practice is a word I don’t use. I use ‘play.’ If you play, you get better. I’m playing a lot, so I see myself getting better."--displayed like this:
Anyway just some thoughts. Display it and play it in good health!
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I would clean it up and get rid of the f hole tape crap. Tommy did not care and it does nothing for this guitar except to detract.
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ps- tommy was also in some of the backing bands on the peter gunn tv show...peter gunns gal was a singer in a jazz club-mothers..and they had some good players (i.e shorty rogers, billy bean) in the background..tommy was one...and he might have been playin the 175
heres still with victor feldman on vibes
cheers
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