This is a great photo, but the coolest is the lap steel ‘tray’
worn around Bill Sevesi’s neck. Here’s the article it’s from.
https://www.billsevesi.com/history
Crazy lap steel stand!
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Sevesi is playing an eight-string Commodore steel guitar here in 1959 - they have an aluminium top wrapped in MOP celluloid, attached to a wooden body. Almost every other photo of Bill shows him playing homemade double-neck steels, often with Commodore parts. Further down on the page linked, there are photos of him at the Waihi RSA in 1963 (four years later than the OP photo) also playing this stock Commodore.
Can't confirm but it may even be the same colour as the one below belonging to forum member and Kiwi steeler Les Thomas:
I also owned one in this colour previously. They have very comfortable wide string spacing and nice pickups. Above all they are some of the most beautiful Deco-style steel guitars ever made.
Alex Patchett beside him is playing a Commodore solid body electric guitar - also with a celluloid top - of which there were many iterations.
Can't confirm but it may even be the same colour as the one below belonging to forum member and Kiwi steeler Les Thomas:
I also owned one in this colour previously. They have very comfortable wide string spacing and nice pickups. Above all they are some of the most beautiful Deco-style steel guitars ever made.
Alex Patchett beside him is playing a Commodore solid body electric guitar - also with a celluloid top - of which there were many iterations.
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