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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 .
The Bradford Group of companies, headquartered in Niles, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, includes many groups of collectibles, including Ardleigh Elliott, Ashton-Drake Galleries, Bradford Editions, Bradford Exchange, Hamilton Authenticated, the Hamilton Collection and Hawthorne Village.
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
1. Vintage Playmobil. Could be worth: $1,200 Certainly you remember this not-even-close-to-as-good version of Lego. Playmobil is still around today, but if you've got the old Victorian Mansion set ...
The resonator mandolin was developed by John Dopyera, who sought to produce a guitar that would have sufficient volume to be heard alongside brass and reed instruments.In 1927, Dopyera and George D. Beauchamp formed the National String Instrument Corporation to manufacture resonator guitars under the brand name National, adding tenor guitars, resonator mandolins and resonator ukuleles to their ...
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 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.
Regal Records was a British record label founded in 1913 as a subsidiary of the UK branch of Columbia Records, known as the Columbia Graphophone Company.. The first record issues on the Regal Record label in February 1914 were re-issues of existing records from the Columbia Record Catalogue: G-6105 to G-6559, G-6440, G 6441 (English Catalogue) and G 6560 to G 6639 (Scottish Catalogue).