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Confirming information is difficult or impossible to find. However, based upon the strong similarities between one particular Lotus model (the L660I), and the Washburn Eagle, many in the guitar community believe the Lotus versions were built at least for a time by Yamaki, as the Washburn was known to have been. Others, after deep comparison and ...
Washburn Guitars is an American brand and importer of guitars, mandolins, and other string instruments, originally established in 1883 in Chicago, Illinois. The Washburn name is controlled by U.S. Music Corp. , a subsidiary of Canadian corporate group Exertis | JAM.
By 2002 the Vintage Guitar Price Guide [144] listed prices of up to $200,000 for 1936–1937 D-45s and up to $150,000 for 1940–1942 models. By 2011 a valuation of $375,000 was being cited for a newly discovered 1942 example, [ 86 ] with values suggested elsewhere [ 145 ] in the range $175,000-$350,000 according to condition and rarity.
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]
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.
1930 National Triolian resonator mandolin. The first [clarification needed] company was formed by George Beauchamp, a vaudeville steel guitar player and house painter, and inventor John Dopyera, a violinist and luthier. Dopyera had seen an amplified Stroh stick violin nearby [clarification needed] with a small flat diaphragm and long attached ...
Foden was born in St. Louis, Missouri and initially started with the violin at age 7, changing from age 16 to the mandolin and classical guitar. He studied guitar with William O. Bateman (1825–1883), "a successful lawyer, music engraver, guitarist, and nationally recognized guitar composer" [ 2 ] By the age of sixteen, he became the head of ...
All are notable for their elegance and attention to detail. There was an additional Washburn line of smaller, simpler pedal harps sold to many schools in the early 20th century. Lyon & Healy's Style 23 harp is widely considered the gold standard of tone quality.