Oddball Volu-Tone lap steel...

Doug Beaumier · From: Northampton, MA

...with monster pickup! Anyone here ever seen or played one of these? CLICK

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Peter Jacobs · From: Northern Virginia

Yikes! That isn't a steel with a pickup, that's a pickup with a steel attached to it!

Fred Kinbom · From: Berlin, Germany, via Stockholm, Sweden.

I may be mistaken, but that aluminium bridge looks exactly like the one found on many Oahu acoustic student lap steels from the 1930s. And I seem to remember seeing that weird pickup in a 30s or 40s Oahu catalog.

Fred
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Michael Lee Allen · From: Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois

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Doug Beaumier · From: Northampton, MA

Yes, 1930's for sure. Probably built in Chicago by Kay, Harmony, or some such manufacturer and branded Volu-Tone. I'm guessing it's pre-Valco. I wonder what that pickup sounds like?
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Michael Lee Allen · From: Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois

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Bill Creller · From: Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)

There was a Volutone on ebait a while back, and it had a strange receptacle for the cord. Appeared to be a two or three pin (?) connection Confused

Rockne Riddlebarger · From: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

One of the things I love about lap steels is that there is no limit to the wild, wacky, wonderfull variations put forth over the years..Rockne

Doug Beaumier · From: Northampton, MA

Keith Cordell · From: San Diego

That Vox Humana guitar is just like one I found in a dumpster when I was a kid. I gaved it to a friend- couldn't figure out why they didn't shape the neck and the action was too high for chords- but have fond memories of the look and style. I'd buy one now if I could find it, just for the look!

Rockne Riddlebarger · From: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

WOW!! Toon and Volume! Vox Humana says it all, lap steels are so much like the human voice!

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