What A Sweet Story & good Fortune For Bill Anderson. You May Have All The Trophies In the World But If You Don't Have The One Item That Got You Their It's Pretty Pointless.

Here Is What Happened…

On Saturday night, pawn-shop owners Mike Grauer and Wendy Davis-Grauer of Phoenix returned his Grammer guitar — “the only guitar I played onstage for between five and seven years” — that had been missing for nearly 50 years.

Last year, a man came into their shop, Bell Road Pawn in Phoenix, with the guitar. He never returned for it and didn't respond to the Grauers' attempts to contact him.

The guitar had water and mold damage, but Grauer, who is a guitar collector, noticed the “Made for Bill Anderson” label that Billy Grammer had pasted inside half a century ago, and he began working with a luthier, a craftsman who builds and repairs stringed instruments, to restore the guitar.

As Grauer began to research the guitar's history, he found a grainy clip of Anderson playing it on The Johnny Cash Show. Four weeks ago, he e-mailed photos of the instrument to Anderson's secretary, not expecting to hear back. But as soon as Anderson saw the photo of the custom label inside, he knew it was the guitar that had been missing for decades and reached out to the Grauers.

Anderson still is not entirely sure how the guitar got out of his possession but thinks he might have loaned it to a museum and it just never found its way back.

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Photo Source: Alan Poizner (The Tennessean)

Article Source: USA Today