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Guitar: Kimbara 12 String Acoustic
Model: 72
Serial Number: 50567

This guitar dates back to the mid 1970's, I got hold of it in about 1987 or 1988 when I was a postal worker. The post office, certainly in my time, was a vocation for life's outsiders. Alcoholics, drug dealers, divorcees who never got back on their feet and dreamers who never wanted, or could keep down, a 'real' job. Full of people from all backgrounds, from the very damaged to the slightly scarred, from the massively eccentric to the painfully shy. It was a perfect introduction to the workplace and the human condition.

I bought this guitar from a guy who stole it from his girlfriend. It cost me £50, about a week’s wages at the time.

Although not my first guitar, it is the one that has been with me for the longest. It needs some work and has a few lumps and bumps. But it's the only guitar that has stayed with me through thick and thin. It's a really great guitar to use a violin bow on, and, being a 12 string, you only have to look at it for it to sound good.

Notably incorporated on my 2021 project 1221.

andrewliles.bandcamp.com/album/1221

It's almost certainly impossible that she'll be reading this, but sorry to the lady who originally owned my Kimmy Kimbara. If it's any consolation, she went to a good home, and I have not had anything stolen to order ever again, besides that one time when I got a kid to nick a drum machine from his school.

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from DISCHORDIANISM 3135, released March 11, 2024

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Andrew Liles is a prolific solo artist, producer, remixer and sometime member of Nurse With Wound and Current 93.

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