It was the same guitar I had seen Alexis Korner playing, a double-cutaway semi-acoustic Kay, which at the time was a quite advanced instrument, although essentially, as I later learned, it was still only a copy of the best guitar of the day, the Gibson ES-335.
As a case in point, 400 meter dash sprinter Oscar Pistorius inspired millions by making it all the way to the Olympic semi-finals to run his greatest race as a double amputee.