“We had our residency on Tuesdays at the Cavern, and I remember we did the swap there. Ray Ennis of that band remembers the trade: “The Club 40 that George got was originally mine,” Ennis confirmed. I thought it was the most fantastic guitar ever.” Harrison said he swapped his Hofner President with a member of The Swinging Blue Jeans to acquire his Club 40. I got a pickup and stuck it on.” Harrison continued, “I soon got fed up with it and did a straight swap for a Club 40. Harrison later remembered of his first Hofner acoustic Jazz guitar, “I got what they call a cello-style, f-hole, single-cutaway called a Hofner, which is like the German version of a Gibson. Soon after, Harrison traded his big Hofner President model acoustic archtop jazz guitar with aftermarket pickups installed for a Hofner Club 40, his first electric guitar. In the only ever authorized biography of The Beatles, George Harrison explains ‘My mum did encourage me, she never discouraged me from anything I wanted to do, that was what was good about her and my dad.’ Louise, George’s mother had a different childhood to George, she was never encouraged to do what she wanted, so when she noticed her son’s musical talent and interest she always said yes and saved up until she could buy the thirty pound Hofner President. Within a few months he explained to his mother how he now needed a new guitar, a better guitar, one that cost thirty pounds and that was electric. George kept trying and practised until he had mastered the skill and outgrew the learning guitar. His mother, Louise helped fund the purchase and despite George’s frustration at learning, his mother was highly supportive and was always encouraging him and telling him he will get there with patience and practice. George was 14 when he developed an interest in learning to play a guitar, and purchased a second hand instrument (the Egmond) for the princely sum of three pounds from a boy at his school.