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After Eastwood Guitars purchased rights to the "Airline" trade name in the early 2000s, they reissued the early 1960s "JB Hutto" Airline shape as the "Airline DLX." The new version set aside the defining hollow fiberglass body of the Valco-made original [4] in favor of the simpler and less-costly chambered mahogany body, giving it a more traditional electric guitar feel and tone, rather than ...
Eastwood Guitars produces a variety of reissue Airline guitars, [7] as well as at least one Supro model, [8] though all of the former semihollow Res-O-Glas models are now wood solidbodies. Several of Valco's earlier amplifier models are recreated by Vintage47 Amps of Mesquite, Nevada, using octal preamp tubes, rather than the later miniature ...
"United Breaks Guitars" is a trio of protest songs by Canadian musician Dave Carroll and his band, Sons of Maxwell. It chronicles a real-life experience of how his guitar was broken during a trip on United Airlines in 2008 and the obstructively uncooperative reaction from the airline.
Kay sold guitars under their own name as well as a plethora of brand names such as Silvertone for Sears, Sherwood and Airline for Montgomery Ward, Old Kraftsman for Spiegel, Rex for Gretsch, Custom Kraft for St. Louis Music Supply Company, [1] Truetone for Western Auto, [2] 'Penncrest' for JC Penney, etc. [26]
Roy Smeck in the short film His Pastimes (1926) 1960s Roy Smeck Custom Airline Stratotone electric guitar Leroy Smeck (6 February 1900 – 5 April 1994) was an American musician. His skill on the banjo, guitar, and ukulele earned him the nickname "The Wizard of the Strings".
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There is plenty of documentation on this on the internet and in books on vintage American made guitars. This from an online article on the Airline guitars - "Airline was a Montgomery Ward house brand, and during the ‘60s, practically all Airline guitars were made either by the Harmony or Kay companies of Chicago. The date on the back of your ...
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