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Topic: Weird Reso/Weiss(?) "Studio Music Hawaiian" |
Aaron Jennings
From:
Montana, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2015 4:03 pm |
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I'm pretty clueless when it comes to the acoustic family of steel guitar. But I saw this on shopgoodwill.com - and it piqued my curiosity.
Has anyone run across one of these before?
I love the learning aid fretboard.
The auction lists its identifying marks as:
STUDIO MUSIC HAWAIIAN |
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Mike Spieth
From:
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Posted 26 Feb 2015 8:25 pm
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Took a bullet in some old western saloon?
I wonder what it actually says in that fine print. |
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Jim Sallis
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2015 8:37 pm
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| These show up quite often, mostly damaged beyond redemption and rather terrible sounding at best. Radio-Tone was the high end; cheaper, smaller versions are also about. |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 27 Feb 2015 7:22 am
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"High end" is a generous way to describe the best of them. They were the cheapest of cheap student guitars, sold with lessons; at the end of the lessons, you got to keep the guitar. Most that I've seen came with paper fretboards and tuners that required an Allen wrench to turn.
I wouldn't spend any money on any one of these. I'd rather own one of the super cheap Asian resonators sold on eBay.
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Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 27 Feb 2015 9:28 am
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That was my first steel guitar. I found it in the attic of my grandparents. Man, I wanted a national style O, but this was the closest I could get. I learned to play delta blues on it, though, holding it like s Spanish guitar.
I could play as loud as I wanted and it wouldn't disturb anyone it was so dead and full sounding.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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