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Has anyone heard about this?

March 3, 2006 -- Yahoo News

Beatles guitar turns up at Montenegro school

A guitar that Paul McCartney threw into a crowd decades ago during a Beatles concert in Britain has turned up at a school in Montenegro, a report said Friday.

McCartney had tossed the Hofner Violin bass guitar into the audience after its neck broke, said the Vesti newspaper without mentioning the year of the concert.

Milan Dobrilovic, a Montenegrin cameraman, said he had received the guitar from his cousin Dario Persi who was the fan who caught the instrument.

Dobrilovic recently donated the guitar to a music school in Herceg Novi, a tiny town on the country's Adriatic coast.

The violin-shaped Hofner guitar was made famous by McCartney, who adopted it in 1961 and still uses the same model.

Guitars proven to have been owned by former Beatles members including McCartney and John Lennon have sold at auction for up to £330,000 ($640,000) in recent years.

Never heard of this. I don't think McCartney's ever tossed a guitar into the crowd at a concert.

Sounds like BS to me.

As far as I am aware, Paul only had his two Hofners; the '61 which was stolen around 1969 and his '62 which he still plays today.

I don't believe it. Looks like somebody is trying to make up a story and make some money. McCartney still has his second Hofner and the first one was stolen around the time The Ballad Of John And Yoko was recorded. Should be interesting to watch this.

It was actually Paul Mctownsend, and it was a Gibson!

Which Hofner is this? The non-existant one!

" I just called Paul to confirm a video interview schedule for our office, and he made sure to me that this story isn't true."
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Next time, ask Paul if he ever got that letter I sent him back in 1965.

Hey, maybe the story is fake, but the guitar real....

Do I hear the '61 Hofner reemerging into the world, albeit a bit smashed up it would seem.

Paul doesn't strike me as the sort of person to bust an instrument, or to throw away an instrument, or to throw a busted instrument into a crowd of people. But Michael's has an interesting theory!

I seem to recall that in the Bassplayer interview her Paul's tech detailed his equipment, he mentioned a second, new Hofner that Paul uses as a backup along with the Ric. Can't find it online though.

I have pictures of it sitting in the guitar rack. It is a Cavern re-issue.

I remember seeing photos of John Entwistle with an old 1960 Hofner violin bass which was painted white and filled with confetti. He busted this on stage in true Who form/showmanship. There was a rumor going around years ago that this was McCartney's old Cavern bass. The only problem was it had the earlier Hofner 'toaster' pick-ups and it was right-handed. You never know, this could be the bass that was thrown into the audience by the wrong guy!

Larry, there's a pic floating around of that bass in pieces, along with some pieces of a Rickenbacker that Pete smashed up, and all of the bits and pieces are laying in a guitar case....seen it?

Ed,

Can you post that pic????