![]() I have a very unusual Kay Acoustic that my late Grandfather bought ( used in a pawn shop in 1954 ) for $100.00 ( quite a sum at the time ) for my Dad's Birthday. ![]() Would love to have one again but now they cost far more than the $29.95 I payed back then,usually way over $500. He said that he'd just sold it that past year. I always regretted selling it and sometime in the late Seventies ran into the friend I'd sold it to and inquired if he still had it with the intention of buying it back. I sold it to a friend in 1969 when I bought a Kalamazoo KG2A, Gibson's budget brand solid body (by then I'd gotten an amp). There was no name on the headstock so for years afterward I never knew what it actually was. I bought an archtop semi-hollow because I didn't have an amp and knew a solid body wouldn't be heard without one. Turns out it was a Kay Speed Demon, a sunburst single cutaway, single pickup (speed bump type) archtop. The first guitar I ever bought was a Kay, though I didn't find out this fact for decades after I bought it. The Jazz Special came with double cutaways and was offered in black or blond and had a large pickguard. Kay offered three models of electric bass this year. It was a solid body guitar that came with one or two pickups. The Kay Vanguard Contour model was introduced this year. They now had thin line bodies, f-holes and two or three pickups. The three pickup model was fancier and had a bound neck. The Swing Master guitars were now Thin line models with two or thtee pickups. The Thin Line electrics were modified and included the single pickup Galaxie model. In 1961 Kay offered the twin pickup Kay Jazz guitar that featured and arched top, double cutaways, two Kay single coil pickups and a Bigsby tailpiece. ![]() Eastwood Guitars briefly revived this instrument. It was available with one or two pickups. The lower part had a carve to rest the instrument on the players leg and a cutaway. One of the more unusual guitars Kay offered in 1960 was the Solo King, The upper part of the body was not carved, except for the upper cutaway. This same year Kay introduced their Thin Line electric models which became a staple with student guitarists, as did the Kay Pro which had more of a Les Paul vibe. ![]()
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