

“The guitar is priceless to our family,” Janie said in an email. Store owners, Moltz, says he bought the guitar in June 2014 from someone who bought it from Sheldon Reynolds, ex-husband of Hendrix’s adopted sister, Janie Hendrix.īut McPherson says Reynolds, who is a former member of the band Earth, Wind, and Fire, stole it. The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Arizona, reported that Experience Hendrix LLC, the company that runs Hendrix’s estate, wants a judge to order that the guitar be returned.Īccording to documents filed in court, the estate says Harvey Moltz, the owner of Rainbow Guitars, is not the rightful owner of the Acoustic Black Widow guitar.Įstate attorney, Ed McPherson, says the guitar is valued at between $750,000 and $1 million. These guitars were offered by the Acoustic Control Corporation, a company better known for their amplifiers, from around 1970 to 1974. Welcome to the Acoustic Black Widow pages, a site devoted to a really great guitar that's definitely a sleeper in the vintage market.
