Mullen steel guitar

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Bonnie Parada
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Mullen steel guitar

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Mullen Steel Guitar Edit



My husband, John, died this year and as you can tell from my first ad, I have very little knowledge of the steel guitar. Thanks to a friend I have corrected my ad.



The steel was built by Dale Mullen, it has 11 strings on the E 9th neck and 10 strings on the C 6th neck. It has 8 pedals and 8 knee levers. It is dark brown. It was bought new and never left the house. It is in great shape.



Would consider any reasonable offer plus shipping.


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Do my eyes deceive me or is that a D-12/10? Twelve strings on E9 and maybe ten on the back neck?

The photo is a little bit blurred.
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Or maybe a D-11...?
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Could be.
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D-11?

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Only Mullen D-11 I have seen posted here.. if so, it's very custom. Hmm. Maybe more info will be added later. It looks like her first post. And I agree, pic is fuzzy. Tell us more, Bonnie.. with close ups, under side shots..? May we see ser. # ? Thx
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Serial #?
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When I blow it up, it looks like 6 keys at the front of each neck and 5 at the back of each neck... If I saw and added right, that make it a D11... Unique!!!
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If it happened to be an Extended E9th on top ...

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Well it would be my dream guitar set up!
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It looks like a D-11 to me. J.R.
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Is it Black or Dark Brown? Some better pictures would be nice. J.R.
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It is indeed a D11 and looks to be brown.
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It looks to me like it was Royal Blue...The aniline content in the dye
was insufficient, and over time the blue fades to a pretty nasty dark plum color like this..
If you take the necks off.. bet it’s blue as blue can be
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Post by Jim Morris »

Dang if that was once blue, it has definitely faded out....

I can tell it is for sure a D11, if there is any question on that though.
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Definitely A D-11 likely with a broken string.
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I am pretty sure it is Mahogany Mica.
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D-11 for sure

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D-11 for sure because both keyheads have 11 tuners and both changers have 11 fingers.
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Mullen steel

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Do you still have the guitar?im from Massachusetts
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Post by Douglas Schuch »

I agree with Mike - I think it has a plastic laminate finish - you can see a metal trim strip along the edge of the front corner.
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Mike has the records...!Mike????
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Post by Mike Mantey »

Did some digging. It was built for the owner John in 5/27/97. It is Mahogany mica and serial #2847. It is a D-11 Pre RP. Should be quite the guitar.
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Post by Mike Vallandigham »

Way cool. Never seen a D11 Mullen.

That extra string is real handy on the top of the C6th and good too to have a fat bottom note on the E9.
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D11

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The E9th neck should have 11 strings remember they took the lower G# away when they put the G#. Eb and F# on the three high strings...now you have it back again. This looks like a great Steel.
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