


Another artist associated with Goya guitars is Mason Williams, who gave us the great guitar instrumental 'Classical Gas.' His second guitar was a Goya which he bought in 1958.
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If you ever saw the 1967 movie 'The Sound of Music' then you saw Julia Andrews playing a classical Goya guitar. I wrote a song that day.' Another great artist that used a Goya guitar in all her songs was Melanie. Asked during a MTV interview, 'How long, actually, have you been composing songs?' she answered, 'Since my 16th birthday, the day I got my Goya guitar.
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Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac fame composed her first song 'I've Loved and I've Lost' with a Goya guitar, her very first guitar, given to her by her parents on her sixteenth birthday. Back of guitar has a very small crack, but does not affect the guitar. Goya g-17 Is Similar To: Gr-2 Greco By Goya Vintage Greco-goya 1965 Mahogany Classical Guitar (56.6% similar) Vintage greco Goya gr mahogany classical guitar, which was made in yugoslavia in the 60's. They were professionally repaired by Big Crunch Amp & Guitar Repair using wood hydration followed. This guitar had two cracks on the back of the base. Goya was the first classic guitar line to put the trademark name on the headstock, and also created the ball end classic guitar string. The Goya Company featured a number of innovations that most people are not aware of. While this trademark is currently discontinued, the rights to the name are still held by the Martin Guitar Company. Martin Guitar Company, located in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, in 1974 when they acquired Levin, and Goya guitars were distributed by Martin until 1996. The distribution for Goya guitars went from Hershman to Kustom Electronics Inc. Levin built high quality acoustic flattop, classical, and archtop guitars as well as mandolins. The Goya trademark was originally used by the Hershman Musical Instrument Company of New York City, New York in the 1950's on models built by Sweden's Levin Company (similiar models were sold in Europe under the company's Levin trademark). went back to Sweden and formed the Levin Guitar company.The 'Goya' name comes from Francisco Jose de Goya, the famous 18th century Spanish painter known as the father of modern art (Francisco drew a lot of Spanish guitar players too). Levin from Sweden had worked in the United States as a trainee at the Martin Guitar Company, as did his son just before World War I.
