| Fred Sharp and Tal farlow 1997 |
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TAL - "Poppin' and Burnin'" | |
| Taken on Tal's first visit to Cardiff with Red Norvo. He was kind enough to autograph the photo on a subsequent visit. |
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Tal with Welsh guitarist, Jack Laycock at Gibb's Club, Cardiff 1985. |
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| Front cover of "Banjo Mandolin Guitar" Magazine from December 1959. A series of articles on Tal by Jack Duarte started in this issue and continued until March 1960. |
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This photograph accompanied the article in the series by Jack Duarte in the March 1960 issue of B.M.G. | |
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The Gibson Tal Farlow guitar from a Gibson catalogue 1964. Price at that time was around £350 complete with case. "This exciting guitar was developed in collaboration with Tal Farlow. The Tal Farlow guitar has combined the traditional and jazz guitars, creating a new instrument for the the discriminating player. Features: Select curly maple arched top and back with curly maple rim. Slim, fast, low action neck joins body at 14th. fret. Three piece curly maple neck, adjustable truss rod. Bound rosewood fingerboard, pearl inlays. Nickel-plated Tune-O-Matic bridge. Two nickel-plated humbucking pickups. Separate tone and volume controls for each pickup. Nickel-plated tailpiece with rosewood insert and pearl inlay engraved "Tal Farlow" . Heavy duty nickel-plated machine heads. 17" wide, 21" long, 3" deep, 25.5" scale, 20 frets. Viceroy brown finish." |
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| The guitar shown here is Tal's prototype Tal Farlow model which he used for many years, sometimes with an added pickup near to the neck pickup. |
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Gibson advert. - 1964 | |
| Tal, from the Verve CD cover - "Tal Farlow's Finest Hour". Note the Gibson ES250 with altered fingerboard giving extra access. |
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Tal at the Concord Jazz Festival August 1976 - Tal's reunion with Red Norvo. |
