- NATIONAL RESONATOR GUITAR IDENTIFICATION SERIAL NUMBERS
- NATIONAL RESONATOR GUITAR IDENTIFICATION SERIAL NUMBER
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Although a few blues players - Tampa Red, Black Ace, Memphis Minnie, and Peetie Wheatstraw - laid their hands on tricones, most of these expensive guitars went to jazz, calypso, and Hawaiian players, the company's preferred customers" (Rick Batey, The American Blues Guitar, p.
NATIONAL RESONATOR GUITAR IDENTIFICATION FULL
National triplates have a distinctly different sound to the later, and cheaper, single-cone models: not as punchy and banjo-like, but sweet and rich, full of natural harmonics and a faint but unmistakable sense of natural reverb. A triangular coverplate protected the delicate cones from nasty accidents. The centers of the three cones were connected by a T-shaped bridge bar, which incorporated a maple insert which the strings rested directly upon. and embossed with a radiating pattern of lines for the sake of added strength.
diameter cones, each one of almost pure aluminum, lathe-spun extremely thin - as little as 0.005 in. The resonator system consisted of three 6 in. An alloy of roughly around 65% copper, 20% zinc, and 15% nickel, it's the same material we use today for fretwire. "National tricone guitars had bodies made of German silver, also known as white brass or nickel silver. Nationals were unequivocally louder than any other guitar on the market, and for a few years, provided you could raise the cash, possessing one of these mechanically amplified guitars guaranteed that you'd be heard, seen, and remembered" (Rick Batey, The American Blues Guitar, pp. The cheapest tricone, the very first triple-resonator Nationals, cost $125, the most expensive models $195. But they had a better idea: resonators built into the body of the guitar itself.Under the brilliant organizational and manufacturing skills of John Dopyera the National triplate quickly took shape, and in 1926 the earliest all-handmade prototypes were ready.For any musician of the time, acquiring a National guitar meant a massive investment. The Dopyera brothers approved: they'd likely already seen an English device called the Stroh violin, which passed the vibrations from the bridge to a small, sensitive circular disc and then on to an unwieldy gramophone horn. In the mid 1920s a Hawaiian guitar player, George Beauchamp, approached two friends who ran a violin shop in Los Angeles, John and Rudy Dopyera, with an idea for a guitar which worked on the same principle as the Victrola gramophone. "One of the most fascinating and charismatic instruments ever made, the National resonator guitar, first went into production 75 years ago.The 1920s guitar players, drowned out by every other instrument on the bandstand, so easily dispensed with, needed a super-loud guitar. A real piece of history from the "Great Depression." Complete with the original capo and a handful of original accessories, some of which were hand-made by the owner. Housed in the original black leather hardshell case with purple plush lining. Apart from some "capo" wear to the back of the neck, this one owner guitar is in remarkably fine condition.
NATIONAL RESONATOR GUITAR IDENTIFICATION SERIAL NUMBER
Serial number ("0876") stamped into the body by the endpin. Slotted headstock with "National" shield logo decal. Spanish (roundneck) style with mahogany neck and bound single-layer ebony fretboard with 12 frets clear of body and inlaid pearl dot position markers. Grid-pattern soundholes on the upper body. Three resonator cones, with two cones on the bass side and one cone on the treble side. "Style 2 1/2" with "wild roses" engraved on the coverplate as well as on the body. Thanks Doug, that's exactly what I needed."One Owner, Low Mileage" - A Very Rare 1929 National Spanish (Roundneck) Tricone Resonator
Valco/National serial number plates, 1941 - 63 (from Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars)ġ951 - V35000 - V38000 X100 - X7000ġ964 - early 68 - sticker w/"1" prefixĮarly to mid 1968 - sticker w/"2" prefix There's a serial number breakdown in the National/Valco section. One place to look is the "Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars". Just to clarify my interest: I'm trying to determine age of several lap steels manufactured as either National or Supro brands.Īny online (or other) resources for dating these lap steels ? Brozman does a good job of covering a lot of the pre-war resos, though. If you're looking for something on, say, a 1960 Supro resoglass I think you are out of luck. I don't know about anything on-line, Steve, but if you want to date a National resonator guitar, look in the back of Bob Brozman's book on Nationals. Is there an online resource that indexes the serial number on National / Supro / Valco guitars to their date of manufacture ? Your profile | join | preferences | help | search
NATIONAL RESONATOR GUITAR IDENTIFICATION SERIAL NUMBERS
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