Question: purpose of the mustache

Goatherd

Thanks galvanometr.

I was thinking that it had simply fallen off and Stochelo found it was a quick and easy way to pick his guitar out of the "crowd". "Glow in the dark" moustaches are also good for that.

The buzz theory makes a lot more sense.

Phil

thanks for the replies.

Michael Bauer

Goatherd, I know of no early Busatos with dodgy elements. In fact, those early ones are some of the best crafted, most elegant Busatos ever made. Busato was, per Jacques Mazzoleni, clearly on a mission to challenge Selmer, and the build-quality of the early Busatos I have owned, played and seen, is pretty exquisite. Even in the cases where the guitars have had hard lives, you can see the workmanship that was put into them. It was every bit the equal of Selmer, IMHO.

That said, there are alot of guitars around these days posing as Busatos that clearly aren't. Some even have counterfeit labels. No one seems to know much about Busatos retail operation, but he sold things in his stores for sure that were not made by Busato (drums and accordions, for example). He may well have sold "student" guitars by lesser builders out of his shop. I don't know how anyone could know. I do have a copy of a Busato catalog around here somewhere which seems to be pre-war, and the only guitars listed in there as Busatos all look familiar to me. If I remember right, since I have no idea where the catalog is, at the moment, there were only four models listed, I think with catalog numbers 42-45. I'll see if I can find it and confirm that.

Phil, sorry to hijack your thread.