Vintage Gretsch 6106 Songbird
The third in the series of Gretsch Rally guitars, the 6106 Songbird is similar to the 6104 and 6105 Rally models. These models weren’t much different from other guitars on the market at the time. In fact, when they were released in 1967, they were seen as yet another set of guitars featuring dual HiLoTron pickups. 
There were so many guitars that were similar to the Songbird on the market that it really wasn’t that popular.
In fact, the Songbird model was very rare. It was identical to the 6104 and 6105 models with two exceptions: it featured G soundholes and it didn’t have the rally stripe on it. That stripe and the unique color combinations that the Rally guitars came, were really about all that made it unique.
The Songbird came in a 16 inch body width and a double cutaway hollowbody style, exactly like the Rally guitars. It featured a rosewood fretboard and T-zone tempered treble fretboard markers. The controls included a master volume, neck pickup volume, bridge pickup volume, and pickup selector switch.
All in all, the Songbird is one of the rarer Gretsch instruments out there, and overall, it’s really not that different from the Rally versions. Finding any of these three guitars can be a bit difficult since they were discontinued in 1970 and were never very popular, but finding a Songbird can be very difficult.
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