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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 .
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 .
Armand Panigel (1920–1995): over 200,000 items of classical music, hosted at Studios La Fabrique. [12] [13] Cristóbal Díaz Ayala (born 1930): 150,000 items (Diaz Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection), donated to the Florida International University, largest collection of Cuban and Latin American music. [14]
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 ...
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.
By the late 1920s, the popularity of mandolin orchestras was waning, and demand for the mando-bass began to evaporate. Gibson ceased production in 1930, and by the mid-1930s most other companies had followed suit. No commercial mando-basses are known to have been manufactured after 1940, and none are currently (2015) in production.
The Blueridge brand are Chinese-built and have won praise from publications such as Guitarist Magazine, Total Guitar and Music Maker for quality and affordability. The company specializes in historic and pre-war reproductions that are used by folk and bluegrass players.
Japanese mandolin orchestras today may consist of up to 40 or 50 members, and can include woodwind, percussion, and brass sections. Japan also maintains an extensive collection of 20th-century mandolin music from Europe and one of the most complete collections of mandolin magazines from mandolin's golden age, purchased by Morishige Takei.