About James Koontz Expertise Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Amplifiers, Most anything Music related... Also most anything related to security, Fire and access control, as well as CCTV system.
Experience 20 years as a sound engineer, part time luthier, and general all around technical dude for many local bands. One of which was fairly large in the 80's and 90's with multiple recordings, and was the opening act for David Allen Coe, as well as got a nashville recording opportunity. The band disbanded before making it mainstream.
Organizations Loyal Order of the Moose, Boy Scouts,BMI
Publications Highlights for Children, Mystery Magazine,several online Publications, multiple cd's from various artists.
Education/Credentials I have 20 years experience, some electrical college experience. Studied Law, philosophy, and theology.
Awards and Honors well, too many to listm and none worth much more than a paperweight to hold down the ones that are on paper.
Expert: James Koontz Date: 6/6/2007 Subject: value of a Takamine Acoustic Guitar
Question HI
I recently purchased a 1962 Takamine acoutic guitar from a yard sale. It is complete with the original hard case. Can you give me any information and an approximate value on this guitar? Thanks
Answer Short answer, No, I can't... 1962 was the year Takamine was founded. They didn't start exporting until 1975. Any Takamine guitar made in 1962, would be extremely rare, and I mean EXTREMELY rare.. Could you get me some pics? and some other information from the inside? like numbers, close up of any labels and such. send them to guitaranswerman@jkoontz.com and I can take a look. If you actually have a 1962 Takamine, you could probably auction it( and I mean through an auction house, not Ebay) and get somewhere in the $2000.00-$3000.00 range.. Of course this is only an educated guess. Noone can ever truly gauge an auction for such a piece.. But, I really can't tell anything until I get some pics. The original hardshell case gets me intrigued, in 1962, Takamine was a family business, who just started to make guitars.. They didn't have actual Takamine hardshell cases for them until 1968... So I really need to see it, I know some people who have damaged the label inside, removing the letters EST. from where it says EST. 1962 (established 1962), and then try to pass them off as a 1962 Takamine, I hope that isn't what happened here.. But, without the pictures, I can't really say much more about it..
