British guitar icon Jonny Marr has used his social following to help an American session guitarist recover her lost vintage guitar. But how it ended up in a guitar store several states away is something only FedEx knows.
Based in Western Massachusetts, Ella Feingold, whose resume includes work with Janet Jackson and Bruno Mars, was expecting the delivery of a 1960s Gretsch 6105 hollow-body after purchasing it online. Then it disappeared without a trace.
“FedEx lost my guitar,” she tells her Instagram followers in a newly posted reel. “It was supposed to show up at my house, but it just completely disappeared. It was scanned on the truck; it was like 30 minutes away from my house. Then nothing.”
Hoping to speak to a customer service representative to get to the bottom of the case, Feingold was infuriated to be left dealing with AI chatbots that do little to answer her questions or help her recover the guitar.
Luckily, her friend Marr, who gifted Feingold one of his Signature Special Jaguar guitars last year, stepped in to put some pressure on FedEx and rectify the situation.
Posting on X, he wrote: “So FedEx just loses guitars now? Belonging to renowned guitarist Ella Feingold, too. And one that was scanned and reported to be on the truck? How does that happen? You need to DM her and find her guitar.”
So @FedEx just ‘lose’ guitars now ? Belonging to renowned guitarist @EllaRaeFeingold too. And one that was scanned and reported to be on the truck ?. How does that happen ? Shocking. You need to dm her and find her guitar. pic.twitter.com/p8J8eFrL0QJuly 6, 2026
The post may not have had the desired effect in rousing FedEx into action, but given Marr’s status – and 298,000 followers on the platform – the guitar was found by one of his followers: a guitar store over 1,000 miles away. Everyone was very confused.
“I got hit up by a guitar store in Memphis, Tennessee,” Feingold reveals. “They’re like, ‘Hey, a random Gretsch guitar just showed up at our store. We don’t know where it came from, but we saw Johnny Marr’s post, and we’re wondering if this may be your guitar.’
“Don’t ask me how a guitar that was coming to Western Massachusetts somehow ends up in Memphis, Tennessee, of all places.
“I have to thank Johnny Marr, who’s like guitar Batman, who’s a real guitar hero, for finding it,” she adds. “Johnny, I love you, man.”
For FedEx, Feingold opted for some rather more colorful language that we won’t repeat here. The guitar is now making its way to its intended Massachusetts home, but it likely never would have made it there had Marr not stepped in. Now she can get back to being a funk guitar ace.
The former Smiths guitarist is set to sell over 100 guitars from his collection, including six-strings used to record and perform seminal Smiths cuts. But don’t expect to find any satin-finished necks amongst them; his disdain for them runs deep.
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