Tranquillo Giannini, s.a., Sao Paulo, Brazil

Finally after reading neowin.net for many months decided to join and post when someone asked "What guitars do you have?" I posted this: After lurking around, my first post. I have a Giannini acoustic Turuna Model No. 4 9/65 Tranquillo Ginnini, s.a. Sao Paolo, Made in Brazil Founded 1900. I used to work across the street from the "Fat Tuesdays" where Les Paul used to play (He, in his eighties, plays still at the Iridium in NYC every week, I haven't seen him but Steve Tyler has) on Third Ave. near 16th Street. In the window was a hologram of Dizzie Gillespie who would blow his horn, lower it and smile as you went by. Writer O. Henry frequented the place after he got out of the "O H io penitENtiaRY" and Kiehl's Pharmacy (William Syndey Porter was a frontier pharmacist in Texas) there a few blocks away since like 1854, is now owned by A Mr. Heidegger, a friend of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, climbed Mt. Everest without oxygen in the 1980's, (Sherpa: "mother of us all") and half the place was a motorcycle museum. They put the product on the chic in Beverly Hills and NYC. Still my guitar gently weeps... I hope Bill Gates reads it, he loves "neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better." http://www.neowin.net/ I was browsing online in Austin, Texas which is where the theory about O. Henry comes from. The Ohio Penitentiary was demolished recently and I think a piece of it is there at the O. Henry Museum in Austin, Texas I seem to remember. I liked their biography of him and started reading some again, he wrote a lot of western short stories too, besides the more recognized New York City ones. Author Kinky Friedman reminds me of him, though longer stories. Recently I read his "Blast From the Past" and "Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned" about NYC. I hope he becomes Governor of Texas I read he's running for it!