By some quirk of fate I found myself in Missoula MT this week... something was in the back of my mind, isn't there a well-known dealer in, of all places, Missoula? YES! It's Greg Boyd. His shop is in an unmarked ranch house in a residential district in a non-descript part of town... you have to go looking for it (with the good directions on his web site. The photo shows just part of one of the four walls of inventory. I was like a kid in a candy store. If you know Greg, you must realize he loves to discuss instruments, builders, history, the US economy, art.... pretty much anything! The website has very accurate descriptions... I agreed with his assessments of everything I tried (Prucha, Gibson, Collings, Brentrup, Rigel) and I almost -- almost -- left with a sigificant upgrade. We talked trade, he is only interested in the same kind of good stuff he has on the wall, but I thought his offers were quite reasonable.
If you are out in Missoula you absolutely must visit, just to talk with Greg is great fun and you will see stuff on the wall and his private collection you will have difficulty finding elsewhere.
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