Brand name of Woolworths (UK) guitars?

[Don Mackie]

Twenty years or so ago Woolworths sold a range of finger-damaging guitars,
maybe they still do. What was the brand name? Anyone know/remember?
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Donald wrote:

>Subject: Brand name of Woolworths (UK) guitars?
>From: don...@spammesenseless.iconz.co.nz (Don Mackie)
>Date: 15/01/99 07:21 BST
>Message-id: <donald-1501...@donald.internet.co.nz>

Donald

IIRC the most typical finger breakers that Woolies sold in the UK in the early
'70s were the Kay range of acoustics, electrics and basses. Not sure if they
were an own brand though.

cheers

brian

[Don Mackie]

[David Wheeler]

Don Mackie wrote:

> Twenty years or so ago Woolworths sold a range of finger-damaging guitars,
> maybe they still do. What was the brand name? Anyone know/remember?

I think you're thinking of "Satellite".

When I first joined a local group back in the early 80s, I had a Satellite
Les
Paul copy for a few months; it was a bitch to play because the fingerboard
action was so high and couldn't be adjusted down without one or more of
the strings fouling somewhere. After receiving payment for a few gigs, I
went out and invested in a proper Gibson SG and my playing improved
vastly overnight.

I don't think that Woolies sell guitars any more; at least, I can't recall
seeing
any in my local branch for ages.

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>Subject: Re: Brand name of Woolworths (UK) guitars?
>From: David Wheeler <CDW...@screen.lmpsukbas.comm.mot.com>
>Date: 18/01/99 11:37 BST
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>
>Don Mackie wrote:
>
>> Twenty years or so ago Woolworths sold a range of finger-damaging guitars,
>> maybe they still do. What was the brand name? Anyone know/remember?
>
>I think you're thinking of "Satellite".
>

Yeah Don...... I think you are absolutely right...... Satellite was the
Woolies Own-brand. They also used to sell those awful Avon cherry red SG copies
and the Kay guitars I referred to in an earlier post, as well as some Eko
acoustics...but Satellite was their own brand.

cheers

brian

[The Nit Nurse]

|>Don Mackie wrote:
|>
|>> Twenty years or so ago Woolworths sold a range of finger-damaging guitars,
|>> maybe they still do. What was the brand name? Anyone know/remember?

'Audition' - sourced from Kay guitars, I think. They ranged from horrible
'cello' styled f-hole guitars not dissimilar to the Hofner Senator, through
a folk guitar called something like a 'Western' or 'Rancher' to some semi
acoustic and solid bodied electric 'copies'. All were horrid.