![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The agent, Donald Valentina, was asked to repair the instrument and noticed that it had an unusal third pick-up and burn marks on the neck. The guitar would have gone on unnoticed if not for a customs agent on the island who repairs guitars in his spare time. Unbeknownst to anyone someone picked the 1954 Les Paul from the wreckage and sold it to a musician on the island of Curacao. The guitar was lost in 1980 when a cargo plane carrying the guitar crashed on take-off in Venezuela and burned up. After 30 years of believing it was destroyed, guitarist Peter Frampton has been reunited with the guitar he used on many of his iconic recordings including the seminal 1976 live album “Frampton Comes Alive.” ![]()
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