‘thank you very much for your kind inquiry but sorry, no we can't answer your questions, strange enough, hmmm? we did never make guitars, we had always been a company for bows and stringed instruments only. i'll give you view into the history and you'll understand why there are vintage guitars by roderich paesold and why we can't come up with answers:
in the late 1960's roderich - the founder - retired and sold his company to the clarinet company wenzel schreiber & sons in nauheim. later schreiber (together with roderich paesold) was integrated in the boosey&hawkes (B&H) group (the other companies were keilwerth, buffet crampon, besson, rico, winter and (only from 1993 on) hofner). A world wide group-own network of international distribution companies was installed.
there was a high demand for guitars in the 70's and 80's but B&H didn't have a own guitar manufacturing company yet. but the group management of B&H wanted to join the guitar boom: Dutch made guitars (actually manufactured by egmont, this company is not existent any more) were bought in with paesold labels and sold mainly by the British and USA distribution companies. we here in Germany initially even didn't know anything about that.’
egmonds are perfectly decent guitars (http://www.egmond.se/) retailled in the states by martin and production ceased when egmond closed in 1993. the paesold is nicely made (champfered internal struts for example) and (allegedly) has the same body as the egmond malaga , there’s a decorated bridge (a bit cheap looking in horsemouth’s humble opinion), and some nice scroll work on the tuning peg plate.
the assistant threw in not one but two gig bags - an oldschool tight warm leatherette one (very stylish - but the zip needs fixing), and a bottom of the line thomann gig bag of the rucksack type (but decent enough).
horsemouth will let you know what it sounds like when he strings it up.
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