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Topic: Anyone have any info on this guitar |
Ernie Pollock
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Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 8:19 am |
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Just when I thougt I had seen everything this thing pops up. It has May Bell on the head, no info inside and does not have a cone, just that pan on top, I restrung it for a fellow & he asked me if I had ever seen one like it. I have a couple of other pictures if anyone would like them emailed to them to figure this one out, let me know. any ideas would be appreciated.
thanks
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 8:49 am
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| "May Bell" made a few dozen different instruments back in the '30s, and sold them through Slingerland dealers. Basically, they were inexpensive guitars, banjos, and ukes, often copying other famous brands of the time (but with added effectations). Not particularly noted for anything but their different additions (as with the chrome dingus on that guitar), they still manage to bring modest interest to collectors. The (rather worn) example pictured might be worth a hundred or two, while a pristine example might fetch $500. |
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Ernie Pollock
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Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 12:46 pm Thanks Donny
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Donny: thanks so much for that information, I had never seen or heard of those before. This one does not belong to me. I will inform that fellow that he may have a little bit of a collectors item. I put new strings on it, but what a design, no cone or well inside like a regular resonator guitar. I think the tailpiece at one time came over the top of the pan, but from what I can tell, it looks like it broke off, so the bolted it down underneath the pan, so now you have to remove the pan to change the strings!!
Ernie
Anyone else want to chime in on this one, your welcome to it!! |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 8:31 pm
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I've got an old May Bell guitar that was my Dad's when he was just a young pup. He was born in 1924. That's the guitar I learned my first guitar chords on, in about 1960. His guitar looks nothing like the one in the picture.
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