Paul McCartney Signed 1964 Epiphone Texan Model FT-79 Acoustic Style Guitar
In the hands of Paul McCartney, the Epiphone Texan Model FT-79 Acoustic style guitar, gave the world "Yesterday" and dozens of other Beatles greats. Now Epiphone has re-created this tonal masterpiece which was later signed on the clear pick guard by Sir Paul himself, after he played it. Individually handmade to accurately depict Sir Paul's Original.
These hand-built Epiphones were produced in the United States under the supervision and direction of Sir Paul McCartney himself and are mirror-images of McCartney’s Texan FT-79 Acoustic Guitar. His is a right-handed instrument that he plays left-handed, reversing the strings; the new guitars are lefty guitars set up for right-handed players.
Epiphone has been a part of the Gibson family of brands since 1957, and McCartney’s original guitar was made in the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1964. He played it in the recording studio and on his famous performance of the Beatles hit “Yesterday” on the Ed Sullivan TV show on August 14, 1965. McCartney’s guitar was a similar Texan model FT-79, that had left the Gibson factory on May 23, 1964. McCartney bought it in New York in 1965. List price at the time was $175.
“It's exciting to have my old guitar reproduced by Gibson,” said McCartney. “It’s exact and what’s more it sounds great.”
This ultimate centerpiece of any 20th-century collection, Comes Complete World Leading Third Party Authenticators Letters of Authenticity from JSA –Jim Spence Authenticity, Beckett Authenticity, Renowned Beatles Signature Authenticator Frank Caiazzo, and a Custom Certificate of Authenticity Manufacturer “Epiphone”.