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"The Fifties" 

a WHITE guitar = Rock'n Roll

ES 57/12 CAR		ES 57/12 CAR body		Wilson  JG 57/1 CA with Royal PU

At the end of the fifties pop music in Holland was dominated by the Indo-Rockers. Mostly all Indo rock bands had an instrument like these. They were the most expensive Egmond guitars then.

The Tielman Brothers 1957		The Tielman Brothers

The Hapcats		Oscar Remeeus ( "Crazy Love")

"The Sixties"

Colourful People.........so......Colourful Guitars

113/22 CA		113/22 CA		113/22 CA

 The Egmond ES/22 CA  is a very light and hollow body guitar. On it is a Royal PP2 pickguard ( with built in PU's). Later she was given 2 cutaways and got her name "SOLID 7". A lot of young Dutch artists used this instrument.

The Hot Rollers. Indo-Rock from Tiel		Rene & The Alligators		Rein de Vries 1959

Peter Koelewijn, godfather of the Dutch Rock, played many Egmond guitars. So did his band The Rockets.

playing the 113/22 CA		Short movie; "Oh Marijke". Egmond JG 60 & Bass7		with his electrified JG 60

a guitar for every one

Lucky 7		Manhattan & Royal amp ( Lord Bizarre )

Egmond's "Lucky 7" was a very cheap electric guitar. Of course it's quality wasn't top. But........she was electric and you could play via your radio ( with tubes of course). Manhattan was an Egmond subbrand and you could buy her at a mailorder company in Amsterdam. Just a plywood body, a neck and a Royal PP1. And........it worked. 

Roelf Backus		Manhattan ad		Fred Net

 This is Jaap Spinders with his first guitar in 1957. It's an Egmond Toledo Tajo he got for his birthday. As many other Dutch guitar students he couldn't afford himself a Fender or Gibson.

 And still people are using Egmond guitars.

Here  is the Limburg group "De Geraniejums".

Playing Egmond Princess		Watch the Egmonds on the wall