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The National String Instrument Corporation was an American guitar company first formed to manufacture banjos and then the original resonator guitars. National also produced resonator ukuleles and resonator mandolins. The company merged with Dobro to form the "National Dobro Company", then becoming a brand of Valco until it closed in 1968.
The National Guitar Museum (NGM) is a museum dedicated to the guitar's history, evolution, and cultural impact; and to promoting and preserving the guitar's legacy. The NGM addresses the history of the guitar as it has evolved from ancient stringed instruments to the wide variety of instruments created over the past 200 years. It focuses on the ...
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 September 2024. American guitarist and ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman Bob Brozman, May 2007 Background information Born (1954-03-08) March 8, 1954 New York City, U.S. Died April 23, 2013 (2013-04-23) (aged 59) Ben Lomond, California Genres Blues, country blues, folk, gypsy jazz, calypso, ragtime ...
Eastwood Guitars produces a variety of reissue Airline guitars, [7] as well as at least one Supro model, [8] though all of the former semihollow Res-O-Glas models are now wood solidbodies. Several of Valco's earlier amplifier models are recreated by Vintage47 Amps of Mesquite, Nevada, using octal preamp tubes, rather than the later miniature ...
André Millard (2004), The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon, ISBN 0-8018-7862-4; Beaujour, Scapelliti (2013), Guitar Aficionado: The Collections: The Most Famous, Rare, and Valuable Guitars in the World, ISBN 978-1-61893-095-8; Neville Marten (2009), Guitar Heaven: The Most Famous Guitars to Electrify Our World, ISBN 978-0-06-169919-1
The exhibit also will feature 40 instruments, along with wall banners and videos, recalling the guitar’s role at important points in American history, modern guitars and a Spanish vihuela from ...
The Oahu Music Company was a music education program in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s to teach students to play the Hawaiian Guitar. Popular culture in America became fascinated with Hawaiian music during the first half of the twentieth century [1] and in 1916, recordings of indigenous Hawaiian instruments outsold every other genre of music in the U.S. [2] By 1920, sales of ...