b'that Cesario was actually Viola. Perhaps he shouldbegan to suggest new models rather than the other have gone to Specsavers.way round. This may have worked out OK for Orsino, butIt wasnt long, 1974 I think, before I was searching obviously not for Olivia, who in the meantime hadfor a name for a smaller guitar that I had made for met Violas identical twin brother Sebastian, andMike Harding. I made another hasty decision in mistaking one for the other, accused him of allusing the name Puck, the mischievous fairy from sorts of wrongdoing. Did you follow that? Good oldMidsummer Nights Dream, who could put a girdle Shakespeare. round his wife in forty minutes (sorry, couldnt Of course, there were no personal computers orresist), but I soon realised that I had misjudged Internet at the time. Finding names involved handagain and changed to his alternate name of Robin copying lists of names from the first page of eachGoodfellow or plain Goodfellow. A great name, play, and carefully reading through the plays andand this time I felt it was a good match for the the rather sparse stage directions because someguitar. characters dont have speaking parts or are onlyBy 1975 I was being asked for a larger guitar, and mentioned in passing. I didnt realise that at first,I made one by stretching out the shape of the but later on it opened up a lot of new possibilities. Olivia and using the same timbers - Mahogany and This was 1973, and I could already see that I neededCedar. I settled on Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, to be careful. I didnt want to use a particularpartly because of the relationship with Olivia in name too soon, and then find that it would haveTwelfth Night. The two guitars were made of the suited another guitar rather better. Falstaff wassame materials, and both were gentle in terms of immediately obvious, but I thought it would besound, so I was following a system of sorts. The needed for a larger model than those I was makingOrsino has proved to be perhaps my most enduring at the time, so I kept it in reserve. Rather thanand popular model. The first one went to Brian just pick a new name when I made a new model,Clarke from the Ian Campbell Folk Group, who I I began to plan ahead and built a short list, sohad seen many times in Birmingham. Ians club that to some extent, the names came first, and theyhad been central to my music education; it is where I first saw many of the artists who later became Chris Gerolmo Jim MessinaChris is best known for the screenplay forI had absolutely no idea that Jim Messina Mississippi Burning, and for the militaryhad a Fylde guitar. Jim was a member drama series Over There. of Buffalo Springfield and one half of He contacted me when he needed helpLoggins and Messina. The original Buffalo Springfield was a steam rollerHappy Traumin getting his ancient Sir Toby bass fixedengine, for those of you who, like me, are after it was damaged but we never didinterested in such things. Another happy discovery. I had no idea find a way of getting it shipped over here.that Happy Traum had a Fylde guitar He sent me a sound file of him singing,I came across this picture and the guitarsuntil somebody sent me a copy of his accompanied only by the acoustic basshistory via an enquiry from the US, wheninstructional video with an Orsino 12 guitar. Eerie but effective. the guitar was being sold for charity. string on the cover. John James has It says: To the Guitar Hall of Fame, Thisbeen a close friend of Happy for many guitar is very special to me. I used it toyears, I didnt know that either. record Whispering Waters.42'