My client mentioned he is missing this guitar a bit, just sayin', it might just vanish.

Last call at this price.

Check out Robert's video! I have 2 more videos of him live with this guitar as well.

*Here at Gordy's Music in Ferndale, Michigan, we are so proud and grateful to receive the REVERB TOP 300 SELLERS Certificate for the second year in a row! A real honor.

We want to start by thanking all of you, our customers, my partner wife Marcia, top notch crew, and Reverb.com. We have quite a team and will strive to get this certificate year after year.*

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Here we have a very nice 1949 Epiphone FT-49 acoustic guitar. This mostly original 77 year old instrument came in from one of Detroit's own bluesman 'Robert Jones'. Robert and I go back 4 plus decades, even before we even opened our shop 40 years ago. Every now and then he weeds and feeds his vast collection of performing instruments. That is where I come in to help him with the task.

So this New York made Epiphone FT-49 is a fine example of a solid playing and superb sounding larger acoustic. Fully original with the exception of the hole in the bottom of the body to plug a guitar cord in to take the sound to the next level through an amplifier. The Fishman pickup is removable with no harm to the body or finish.

Cosmetically, yes it has bumps, nicks, and light honest playing wear and bruises like me being 77 years old like the guitar. But I am still all there as is the guitar. The frets are in great condition with no real pitting and very light wear. There is a chip of vaneer missing on the headstock, not serious in any way. I just spoke to Robert to find out that 20 some years ago when he purchased it from Elderly Instruments here in Michigan, it had just received a neck reset by them. The only other repair was the bridge has been professionally taken off and reglued.

The guitar played and sounded just fantastic when it came in but I felt the need to clean the frets, a few drops of oil on the amazing original, flawless Grover tuners, seasoned the Brazilian rosewood fretboard, and install a fresh set of DA'ddario .12-.53 Phosphor bronze strings. Now the guitar sounds and plays even better with amazing string heighth playability. TONE & VIBE! Lot's of vibe.

Guitar comes with an excellent condition fits it

like a glove deluxe-plush TKL 6 latch hardshell case with key.

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To read and listen to Robert Jones and his history and music,

Google: Robert Jones Detroit Musician

You might even see and hear this FT-79 on one of his recordings

NOTE: I am waiting for a picture with Robert and this fine guitar. Stay tuned.

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Reverend Robert B. Jones, Sr. is an award-winning Detroit-based musician, storyteller, and radio host who specializes in traditional American roots music. A multi-instrumentalist, he is highly skilled on the guitar, harmonica, mandolin, banjo, and fiddle.

His career spans over 50 years, defined by a deep passion for preserving and educating audiences about the African American blues tradition, gospel music, and spirituals. Below is an overview of his work and legacy:

Musical Style and Performances:

Reverend Jones is a one-man show who interweaves timeless storytelling with original and traditional songs. His mission is to bring to life the rich, diverse history of American roots music, often collaborating musically with his wife, vocalist Sister Bernice Jones.

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This 1949 Epiphone FT-79 (the pre-Gibson precursor to the famous "Texan" model) is in very good, structurally solid very playable condition. This New York-era acoustic has become in increasingly rare, highly collectible piece of guitar history known for its light build and woody tone.

Specifications:

• Body Style: Slope-shoulder dreadnought, featuring an arched back.
• Materials: Solid spruce top with American walnut or mahogany back and sides.
• Scale Length: 25 1/2"
• Nut Width: 1 & 11/16 inches.
• Neck: Chunky three-piece mahogany neck with a soft "V" profile, often featuring a heavy-duty Epiphone truss/cantilever system.
• Fretboard: Rosewood with parallelogram pearloid inlays.
• Bracing: Ladder bracing.
• Hardware: Custom tortoise-shell pattern pickguard, often equipped with historic "Frequensator" tailpieces or standard pyramid bridges

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Guitar weighs 6 lbs.6 oz.

Ships fast and insured.

Shipping box Dimensions
50"X20"X8"

Shipping weight 24 lbs.

Shop at our Reverb Store for a bunch of vintage and other products at:

https://reverb.com/shop/gordys-music

IN BUSINESS for 40 YEARS!!
50 YEARS of VINTAGE EXPERIENCE!
MICHIGAN GUITAR SHOW PROMOTORS Since 1989!
Brick and mortar to the end!

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Visit our new secured still under construction website to see the long list of celebrity musicians and groups we have met and serviced in the past 40 years. 

NOTE: Too cool. We just shipped very recently in the last few months a 1967 MapleGlo Rickenbacker 6-12 Converter 'comb' guitar to Billy Corigan of Smashing Pumpkins! We also then shipped a vintage 50 watt Marshall head to L.A. studio-touring guitarist extraodinaire, Michael Landau, and 2 vintage guitars to Jack White's organization down in Nashville just a few days before his 50th. birthday! mmm? Add 'The Kentucky Head Hunters' to the list, just sold Greg a cool little 50's Valco tube combo amp!

Gordy's Music has become a Detroit institution! Our shop was used as a filming location for a few films like "Miracle in Motor City" a Christmas movie on Lifetime (featuring Smoky Robinson). We've supplied gear for movies including "Bill & Ted Face The Music" with Keanu Reeves. We've got decades of celebrity customers, including recent visits from Beck, Eric Johnson, and we recently sold Billy Joel's bassist a cool Gibson SG he is in love with. One day a while back Andre 3000 and his group stopped in to browse as they were playing Masonic Temple that night and right after that we sold an old oil can Morley Wah Vibrato pedal to Credence Clearwater Revival's thee John Fogerty!

We are having and have had a lot of fun here at Gordy's Music! I was just remembering about 35 years ago a tour bus pulled up to our little shop, and who rolls right in and hangs out for an hour? Lenny Kravitz and his entire group, right about the same time I was selling many guitars to and chauffeuring around Dee Dee Ramone who had an apartment a block down from my house.