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The Regal Musical Instrument Company is a former US musical instruments company and current brand owned by Saga Musical Instruments. Regal was one of the largest manufacturers in the 1930s and became known for a wide range of resonator stringed instruments, including guitars , mandolins , and ukuleles .
Mandolin awareness in the United States blossomed in the 1880s, as the instrument became part of a fad that continued into the mid-1920s. [14] [15] According to Clarence L. Partee a publisher in the BMG movement (banjo, mandolin and guitar), the first mandolin made in the United States was made in 1883 or 1884 by Joseph Bohmann, who was an established maker of violins in Chicago. [16]
This "mandolin craze" was fading by the 1930s, but just as this practice was falling into disuse, the mandolin found a new niche in American country, old-time music, bluegrass and folk music. More recently, the Baroque and Classical mandolin repertory and styles have benefited from the raised awareness of and interest in Early music .
In the 1930s, Peabody promoted the plectrum banjo by visiting many of England's BMG (Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar) clubs, which were popular in the years prior to World War II. In the early 1940s, he headlined at the National Barn Dance , broadcast on AM radio station WLS Chicago .
It was marketed by Regal Musical Instrument Company, who introduced it 21 January 1928, as an "eight-purpose instrument". [ 2 ] The name "Octophone" came from the idea that the instrument could take on the "tone combinations" of eight instruments, the tenor guitar , tenor banjo , ukulele , taro patch , tiple , mandolin , mandola and mandocello .
The clavichord is an example of a period instrument.. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written.
Ray Jackson, [156] mandolin part of Rod Stewart's Maggie May, Lindisfarne (band) John Paul Jones (United Kingdom), [157] Led Zeppelin, mandolin part of Gallows Pole [158] Bernie Leadon (United States) Jimmy Page (United Kingdom), Led Zeppelin; Mick Ronson, Mott the Hoople, :mandolin part of I Wish I was Your Mother [159]
The instruments include the banjo, mandolin and guitar. This became popular in the US in the late 19th century and into the 20th century. [ 1 ] It fell from favour in the 1930s but there is still an organised movement in the UK where the BMG , founded in 1903, is the country's oldest music periodical still publishing.