I picked up this Shaftesbury in the UK last year in a second hand music shop or 150 pounds. I believe they were built in Japan for a shop on Shaftesbury avenue in the '70s. I would love a National but this one is going to have to do in the meantime. It has that wonderful sound but perhaps lacks a bit of volume. I play it in open G.
Here it is being played where it was meant to - on the banks of a big river. In this case the Zambezi.