The case of the mysterious Telecaster
The 1952 Fender Telecaster that found its way to Dietz Brothers Music. Photo by Conner Griffin It all started with the death of a friend. Two years ago, Marilyn Newhart passed away, and named Pat Dietz executor of her estate. She’d been an architectural writer and a no-nonsense sage, and had made all the arrangements, including the hiring of a good estate attorney. When that attorney discovered Dietz ran a guitar shop in Manhattan Beach, he introduced him to two ladies in Torrance who had something unusual and could use his help figuring out what to do with it. Dietz called them. “We’ve got this old weird guitar,” they told him. “They kind of knew they had something,” Dietz said. “They just didn’t know quite what.” When the ladies brought the guitar to Dietz Brothers Music, Pat opened up the case and beheld the splendor of one of the guitars that made Rock ‘N’ Roll possible: a perfectly intact 1952 Telecaster. “I pulled it out and you could just tell — the thing about this guitar, it’s beautiful,” Dietz said. “A lot of guitars, the other ‘52s I’ve seen look like somebody’s skateboard. They look so bad. This guitar was not played much. The frets are okay and it plays good. It’s…
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