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Old 01-12-2017, 08:46 AM
Aping Leo Aping Leo is offline
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Interesting post. I recently saw a piece on Antiques Road Show where Mark Walberg visited Gryphon instruments. The focus of the piece was The Larson brothers. They immigrated from Sweden to Chicago in the late 1800's and began building guitars after buying Mauer guitars in the 1920's. According to Walberg they never built under the actual name of "Larson", using different names instead. Anyway not to get into a long winded history lesson, the point Im getting to if memory serves, is that they were credited as being the first to develop the steel string strung guitar. I always thought this was credited to Martin but the guy from Gryphon didn't say anything to detract from the statement.

Last edited by Aping Leo; 01-12-2017 at 08:50 AM. Reason: another thought
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