We start this series with a walk down memory lane to the heady days of . . .
‘ the Holiday ‘ program. This was a travel program discussing the merits of many
holiday resorts around the world , hosted by the smooth talking Cliff Michelmore ,
who happened to be a big fan of our first featured guest . . . . . . .
GORDON GILTRAP
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. . . GORDON had recently written a very ’ High Energy ‘ instrumental called
HEART SONG an extremely memorable number which struck a ‘ chord ‘
with Mr. Michelmore , who consequently used this track for the intros , outros and ‘stings’
for this ’ top of the ratings ‘ family holiday show .
GORDON went on to write many tunes for numerous TV shows and much of his work
has been used for all purposes around the world .
Those of you who will take the opportunity to listen to his works will undoubtedly recognise
the unique sound he has achieved playing mainly acoustic guitar for over forty years .
To Be Continued ! . . . THE continuation ! !
Gordon has collected numerous guitars over the years , one way or another ! Nothing sinister here
but he has been treated to some rather special ones which were actually given to him to try out
on a long term basis . Ovation I remember were one of his sponsors , lucky man !
BUT he has also bumped into a few weird and wonderful designs as is demonstrated in the next
picture . . .
- the WONKY One !
The Neck is perfectly straight . . no twists or bends , what is weird , is the setting of
the frets . when I saw it , it appeared to have a shorter neck than average and had
this array of ‘ radial ‘ set frets , giving this very strong illusion of being badly buckled
but just to prove all us doubting Thomas’ wrong he sat there and performed a minor
miracle on the thing ! . . . think it would have given me some form of vertigo ,
Who worked all the geometry on that ? Obviously had
too much time on their hands !!
