b'customers and friends. A few years later, Nic JonesIm tempted here to recount all the odd stories and recorded Penguin Eggs using an Orsino andencounters Ive had over the years, maybe I will changed the direction of UK guitar playing oncejust sneak some in here and there.again. Heres one - a young man who raised the money to Now I had the opening I had been waiting for, tobuy his Fylde Guitar by signing up to take part in use the best name of all - Falstaff. It was inevitablea medical experiment. The experiment went a bit that a bigger guitar made from Rosewood andwrong , but he got paid anyway and he bought his Spruce was going to be my Flagship guitar, andguitar. I think hes ok now.even today, I find myself sometimes writingThere were a few possible names left from Flagstaff rather than Falstaff. Flagship -Midsummer Nights Dream, but I wasnt likely to Flagstaff - Falstaff, its easily done.call a guitar Bottom or Peasblossom. Later on That first Falstaff sat in my workshop for a whileI found The Bastard in King John. I havent met until Martin Carthy kidnapped it in 1975. He saysthe right customer for that one yet. Well, actually, I it beckoned to him from across the workshop.have.He still has it and carried it nearly everywhere forI was so busy getting things made that it didnt many many years. I did a neck reset on it recently,occur to me to keep records of the serial numbers which is forty years on. I think that the Oberonand names until I reached no 600 in 1978.A shop established my name as a guitar maker, and thereported a stolen guitar, and needed to know the Falstaff took me from English Folk music to a muchserial number. Lesson learnt. I still did not think of wider clientele. I sometimes upset customers byputting dates against the numbers until 1981.Ive telling them that there was a Falstaff on every Spicebeen piecing the missing information together ever Girls record. Unfortunately its true, although to besince. I dont publish the serial numbers anywhere, honest, I am rather pleased. Mick Jagger bought oneso people need to make contact and ask, which after posing with it in front of a mirror. Again, true.lets me make new friends and new readers for my Peter Tosh borrowed that guitar from a party, sonewsletter. Mick had to buy another.Again Elliot Randall & artists quotes acoustic guitar sound this good;Joe BeckThe most accurate and responsive guitar Ive played; Arlen RothGuitarist with Steely Dan, Elliot is now living and working inThe best new acoustic guitar Ive played; David Brown London. In 1979 he said that the Calibanmade me happier The richness and body is perfect for all my recording than any other acoustic instrument I have ever played. I metdates; Mark Eganone of the finest instruments Ive Elliot for the first time this year, and he said that was still true,ever played;Andy Latimeramazing, the best Ive even though his flatmate had sold the guitar to feed a habit whiletried in ages;Stanley ClarkeI love playing them; Kent Elliot was away on tour. He has never been able to find anotherNebergallI have never been so impressed with a 12 guitar that made him feel the same way.I might be speaking tostring guitar. There are others, but I have run out of space. I Elliot again before long.know the quotes are from a different era, but I am still pleased.Elliot was one musician amongst a group of famous players and engineers in and around New York and Los Angeles in 1979 who all supported Fylde and gave me some lovely quotes.Al Di Meolathe best all wood guitars I have ever heard or recorded with; John AbercrombieI have never heard an 43'