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Mystery Archtop Acoustic
Just brought this archtop acoustic on ebay, needed a bit of work but now plays and sounds nice
After searching around the internet i can't seem to find any info on it. The guitar it's self has no truss rod, the previous owner described it as being made in the 50's I've attached a picture below, any help would be much appreciated[ |
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Can't see the headstock. Could be a Kay, Silvertone or Harmony.
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I don't think it's any of those brands - with those soundholes, to me it looks like an inexpensive German-made archtop from the 1950's or early 60's that some GI brought back from Europe at the end of his overseas deployment, and then someone else who acquired it along the way decided to make a home refinishing project out of it.
In the past, Gretsch made some archtop guitars with unusually shaped soundholes, but this guitar really does look more German than American to me. Wade Hampton Miller |
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Thanks for the replies, thought it could have been european
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I found this-check the f-holes:http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...O8up8AO4j8XhBA
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Possibly an Isana. Most likely German, as WHM says.
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KK Jale, hey, it's nice to hear from you.
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