The Steel Guitar Forum

I would happily let you have the use of any of the images at my http://notecannons.com site ... I've sized a few to 160pxHigh below, can size others there for you too. http://notecannons.com/lapsteels/lap_steel_double_10.jpg http://notecannons.com/lapsteels/lap_steel_double_12.jpg http://notecannons...

I know that Richard has a Silvo lap steel, and I've just been chatting to Marc Schoenberger about one I have. I'm taking pictures for my notecannons site, and realised that there are no signs of 'dots' covering screws through the fingerboard to secure the neck.. This intrigued me enough to open her ...

This is now sold to a forum member . At some point in the near future I'm thinking of selling my 1st generation National New Yorker Hawaiian 6 string guitar. Before I put it on eBay, I'm offering it here. http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix0912/1946_lap_steels_misc_16_1.jpg According to research...

Hi David,

That phrase interested me too, and no, I've never seen one.. For some years I've doubted that this instrument actually existed as anything more than an artists rendition in a sales brochure. That's why I'm now hoping to find someone who has encountered it in the real world..

The 1936/37 National sales brochure shows a New Yorker with what seems to be a chrome like finish to the body, and not the usual black/white that most generations of New Yorker had. I have never seen one, I wonder if it was just a sales mock up, or did they actually exist? Have you seen one? Can any...

#112 has finally been pronounced as good (or better than ;-) )new by Marc and Don and arrived in Canada today. I heard that Don Young liked her so much that when Marc finished setting her up , Don borrowed it back to play, copy for himself(?) and for a photo session with some Hula girls at Nat reso....

Thanks for the pictures! I have started a page at http://notecannons.com scroll down the left menu to Electrics, select "New Yorker Lap steels" and have taken the liberty of using some of these pictures. I have credited the poster by name, and have emailed bob the moderator to say that I a...

Thanks Fred! I'm going to dig out the couple that I have and see which # they conform to, one is a 7 string which I notice that Mark hasn't distinguished as a variation.

Let's see how many versions are owned here, and then I can put out a call to all the owners for pics.

Colin

Here's a couple of pictures of an old New Yorker I've had for quite some time that I thought some of you National fans might enjoy. Fred posted a reference to this at our notecannons.com site, and Mark Makin replied with a description of no less than 15 variations on the New Yorker that he has docu...

112 is now happily on the bench with Marc Schoenberger at National Guitar Repair. He and Don Young gave her the once over yesterday and pronounced her to be in good health, and in great shape for her age! :D Interestingly Marc told me today on the 'phone that the diamond holes had at one time mesh b...

Serial nos 132 and 133 are both Style 2 Hawaiian necks with the diamond holes. 133 is the last number I know off, but Bob or Mark Makin probably know of others(?). http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix0903/1946_national_gallery_1.jpg At the time this picture was taken, in 1987, #133 was in Britain,...

this week, I received "Le Hawaienne"......a modern version of the Macaferri Hawaiian guitars made during the 1930s........built by Michael Dunn..... ...Wow ! What an attractive guitar. Excellent ! We're all envious. :eek: Since the "le" is French, shouldn't it be "l'Hawaien...

It is now 2009 and still you jealously guard your Brasher information. I've refrained from placing more of what I know about Brasher's instruments on my http://notecannons.com site out of respect for your work, but if you aren't ever going to publish, then would you allow me access to your findings ...

It seems that Brian and a colleague are researching an article on Charles Brasher, and feel that my web page is trampling on their project, they have contacted me privately and I have 'aggreed to dissagree'. I presume that this is why Brian has removed his replies! Should anyone contact me with any ...

Colin B, Do you know where the Stroh Hawaiian I picture ended up? I had seen one at the "loud and clear" exhibition of John Dopyera's legacy in Erie, and had also heard of the one at the EMP in Seattle that Orville refers to, the one pictures is a third and very complete example. I was sen...

Mike D,

Now, a Stroh weissonator... Sounds just your sort of project! And, you have a ready customer in Keith!

I'm glad you took the time to look at the pictures and that you enjoyed them. Well, The tale I grew up with is that John Dopyera fell out with the National company and left to start the Dobro company with his brothers, <strong>because</strong> he claimed that although George Beauchamp patented the s...

Thank you Bryan! It sounds as though you knew the family? I would really appreciate it if you could find out any more details, and pictures etc for my pages. Notecannons is not a profit making enterprise, the stuff that Michael Messer and I post there is just for folk who are interested ( obsessed m...

Thanks Joe,

Yes I have the book, two actually since the color plaes fell out of the hardback copy within days of buying it. I also recomend that readers of my site buy it, as you will see on my home page.

I was hoping that folk would find the pictures of the instrument(s) to be of interest. Did you?

Another instrument many of you may have never seen is the Stroh resophonic Hawaiian guitar which was made many years before the Nationals. Please take a look at www.notecannons.com under "Strohviols Guitars" towards the end of the index. It seems clear to us, having seen over a dozen Stroh...

I have recently added a page on Charles E Brasher to my www.notecannons.com site. Look under Patents in the index. Charles was a luthier from Toronto Canada who made Resonator guitars and who patented a resonator. Unlike Schireson I can't find any record of national-dobro going against him for paten...

Hi, Ben Elder sent me the pictures of his Greenfield "log" recently, which I have added to the Greenfield Hawaiian Guitars page at my www.notecannons.com site. The headstock brace is indeed origional and can be seen in the patent drawings which I have also tracked down and added to the pag...

I'm in Whistler, North of Vancouver. I expect you know Lorene & Art Ruymar in Vancouver? Michael Dunn and Steve Dawson have been teaching low bass G Hawaiian guitar classes in Vancouver for the last few years, so with Ralph Shaw's ukulele circle there is quite a thriving traditional Hawaiian mus...

So it looks like it was probably Ali and I'll leave my website title of 'Aluminium lap steels' as it is.

(Although if I knew enough web stuff I could probably sniff out where visitors come from and spell it right for both the English and the USA audiences!)

Once again thanks for the information.

Mahalo, George.

You are ideally placed to research this in your own time, and any help you can give will be much appreciated!

Aloha,

Colin