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Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. William Horace de Vere Cole (5 May 1881 – 25 February 1936) was an eccentric prankster born in Ballincollig, County Cork, Ireland.His most famous prank was the Dreadnought hoax where he and several others in blackface, [1] pretending to be an Abyssinian prince and his entourage, were given a tour of the Royal Navy ship HMS Dreadnought.
There were at least 5 models in the RR-V series. The RR-2, RR-10V, RR-11, RR-12, and RR-40 (the latter being the top-of-the-line model). All models featured a Floyd Rose Tremolo styled-bridge (called the 'Wonderbar Tremolo') and had a pickup configuration of one Humbucker at the bridge and two single-coils at the neck.
At the time, the Washburn facility was the ninth-largest employer in the village (the third-largest business), providing 180 jobs. [18] The stated intent was to reopen at a smaller building in Buffalo Grove (1000 Corporate Grove Drive) [19] but this did not materialize. A few Washburn models (particularly the N4) are produced in Cincinnati.
The Dreadnoughts are a Canadian 6-piece folk punk band from Vancouver. The band combines a wide range of European folk music with modern street punk . The band has seven full-length albums and three EPs on various labels, and has played around 500 shows in around 30 countries.
The Dreadnought hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship , the battleship HMS Dreadnought , to a fake delegation of Abyssinian royals.
Washburn & Doughty is a shipyard located in East Boothbay, Maine. Construction plate aboard the Chebeague Island Ferry , then named The Independence The company was founded in 1977 by Bruce Washburn and Bruce Doughty, then employees at Bath Iron Works . [ 1 ]
The Washburn N4 is an electric guitar model, developed in collaboration between Nuno Bettencourt, Washburn and the Seattle-based luthier Stephen Davies. Since its introduction in mid-late 1990, it became Bettencourt's primary guitar and it is marketed by Washburn as his signature model. The N4 is the flagship of the Washburn N-prefix guitar models.
The dreadnought guitar was first announced in the Music Trades Review on August 19, 1916, with the copy reading as follows: "New Use Found for Steel Guitar..." "A new steel guitar called the "Dreadnought," and said to produce the biggest tone of any instrument of its kind, is now being used in the making of phonograph records.