Re: Why so many relics

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:15:34 +0100, Woody <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ok, yes, I agree, the guy that came in and said 'Great work Leo, tell
you what, lets move *this* to *here* and...'
did a very good job!

That's what designers are for :-) Sadly we rarely get to know their names
in the guitar world. The big exception is Ray Dietrich, a GM car designer
who was responsible for the Gibson Firebird. He named it too. The fact that
Pontiac produced a car of the same name a few years later is probably no
coincidence.

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