Competitions

Screenshots from the new website

Bailey name a guitar competition-prize winners

Mar 19th

Posted by Mark in Competitions

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The imminent launch of the new website means it is time to announce the winners of the Name a Bailey Guitar competition.

Thanks everyone for your patience- this has taken a lot longer than anticipated but we are finally ready to launch the new site on Monday. Scroll down to see if you are a winner…meanwhile here is a sneaky peek…

Screenshots from the new website

Screenshots from the new website

Names for Guitars – winners

Thanks to everyone who entered and for all the suggestions. Unfortunately some really good ones were already being used by other makers, but we were very impressed with the quality of the entries and picked the ones that we liked and suited the guitars. Some I made up myself. Hope you like them…

Here are all the names for the guitars:

KEY:

Old name- New name (namer)

Electric Guitars
B1 – Curve (Marcel B)
S2 – Bandsman (Marcel B)
R1 – Exotica Pro (me)
Acoustic Guitars
A1 – Bootlegger (john)
A1-12 – Rumrunner(me)
A2 – Moonshiner (john)
Parlour – Sweet P (me)
Ziricote –  Companion  (Marcel Besselink)
Ziricote 14 – Camino (Chris Sharp)
Archtop Guitars
J1 – Kithara (lesley-ann)
J2 – Coryphee (me)

PRIZES

FIRST: Marcel- Curve (B1) Bandsman(S2) Companion (Ziricote)

Guitar body blank, neck blank and fretboard, DVD, T shirt, 10 Bailey picks, set of bass strings.

Marcel was the clear winner – he got three and also made the most entries. As he is coming on the course soon we will also contribute some choice pieces of wood towards his build.

SECOND: John- Bootlegger (A1) Moonshiner(A2)

DVD, 2 T-shirts, 10 Bailey Picks, 2 set of acoustic strings, 2 set electric guitar strings

John named two guitars – The Bootlegger is the name I chose for my own guitar- nice one.

THIRD: Chris- Camino (Ziricote 14)

DVD, T-shirt, 10 Bailey picks, set of electric guitar strings

El Camino means ‘the road’ in Spanish which is why I chose this one.

BONUS PRIZE:

Lesley-Ann-  Kithara (J1)

DVD, 2 T-shirts, Bailey Picks, 2 sets of strings

Lesley gets the BONUS PRIZE For naming the FLAGSHIP Bailey archtop. Kithara is ancient greek for stringed instrument….very clever.

RUNNER UP PRIZES:

Kenny- Jessamine, and Taylor Buntain- Jester

DVD, T-shirt, Bailey picks and set of acoustic strings

We loved these too and may use them for future models.


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Some of our acoustic and archtop guitars

Darvel Music Festival 2010

Nov 1st

Posted by Mark in Acoustic guitars

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…The ‘Bailey Room’ at the Darvel Music Festival…..

Thanks to Neil and Sheila McKenna and all the other Darvel volunteers for inviting us to such a great event and giving us such a wonderful space. We had a large room all to ourselves to set up the Bailey display and show off a collection of our guitars. We have donated one of our R1 guitars to help raise money to keep the event going – it was great to see it on the main stage before the show started – find out how you can win it here

Also big THANKS to Billy and Fiona for helping us lug all the gear up the stairs, set it up, keep an eye on it, and then lug it all back out again!

We had loads of interest – everybody said good things about the guitars – we appreciate that…special thanks to Davey Patterson for doing his best to sell all our guitars – thats the spirit!

The gig was a sell out – The Larry Carlton Trio were there – his first visit to Scotland for 35 yrs! Amazing. You can read more about that here

We also got to listen to Martin Taylor play his set which is always fantastic – Afterwards Martin and his wife Liz came up to see us. It was great to see them again and it gave me a kick up the a*** to finally publish the story about when I ‘did up’ one of Martin’s old very special guitars.

….see next post….


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Bailey Acoustic - A1-12

Name a Bailey Guitar! And win a valuable prize….

Aug 1st

Posted by Mark in Competitions

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….Sign Up and make a comment to suggest a name for these guitars:

Have a look at the pictures for inspiration and please keep it clean (Duffy and Kenny).  You must sign in to the Bailey Blog to enter. Comments on Facebook will not be counted.

I will decide if I like any of them in about a week and if we choose your suggested name you’ll be contacted via email and we’ll send you a gift pack from us to say thanks (If you want).

The pack will contain:

Bailey T-shirt, Set of strings, Guitar Magic DVD, Bailey Plectrum……and whatever else we can find lying around. Of course you will also get credited on the Bailey Blog and receive massive kudos

Make sure you tell me which guitar you are talking about…..you can make as many suggestions as you want.

Example:

A1 – The Asbo

B1 – The Beast

Now you can see why I need a little help……competition closes 10 Aug 2010

Update 11 Aug 2010

Hi folks…. Cheers for all your fantastic suggestions. I am currently feeding them through the master computer (Carol). I’ll let you all know in a few days if we choose any of ‘em.

…I will leave the comments open in case you have any belated epiphanies.

Update 15 Aug 2010

There have been some great entries…nice work folks……I reckon we are half way there! So I have decided to leave the comments open until our new internet shop is ready to launch. Keep the names coming……won’t be long….

Update

Winners are now announced


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Some of our guitars

Win a Bailey Guitar at the Darvel Music Festival

Mar 27th

Posted by Mark in Competitions

Celebrating 10 years of the Darvel Music Festival…………….

Bailey Guitars have donated one of our custom R1′s for a raffle to raise money for the event. The guitar has been airbrushed with a unique design by local artist John Dixon . To find out how to win it click here to visit their site. Good luck!