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Topic: Rickenbacker Double Neck from the 40's |
Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 10 Feb 2008 2:03 pm |
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I have not seen this particular Steel Guitar pictured on any of the posts. I Think it is a Rickenbacker. I remember seeing one played at a Los Angeles music store (Lockies Band Instrumens) in down town Los Angeles where active Musicians conregated to Jam during the 40's. There quite a step down from the outside to the inside neck. This picture came from a Song Book titled "Hillbilly Hit Parade of 1942" with the feature on Charles Mitchell.
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John Dahms
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Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 10 Feb 2008 4:02 pm
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A six and and eight string neck with a ca.1940 style Ric amp. Looks like the sheen of bakelite too. Can't say I've seen one with the height offset like that one. Great photo.
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 10 Feb 2008 6:29 pm
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Cool post, Billy. That's maybe the 3rd pic I've ever seen of one of those dbl. neck bakelites, and they must be as rare as the 'swept wing' fry-pans.
Of which, I have DO have room in my collection for at least one of each.
I'll bet the tone of the dbl. B is about the best ever. Wonder if one has survived into this century... |
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Eddie Cunningham
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 11 Feb 2008 12:03 pm Bake. Dbl. neck !!!
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| In another post I mentioned that in the early 50s I saw an old Hawaiian guy in a bar in Boston playing a thick , heavy D-6 or 8 ?? Bake. Rick. and it looked just like this one !! So maybe there is still one floating around in some dark Boston cellar. ?? Wish I could find it !! Eddie "C" ( the old non-pedal Rickenbacher geezer ) |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 13 Feb 2008 9:28 pm
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Charles Mitchell would be 103 years old today were he still living. That's an interesting volume pedal
he had. Anyone living around Louisiana and Eastern Texas should be looking in attics and old barns for that guitar ! Hey, did you read where he co-wrote
"You Are My Sunshine" in 1940 ? I love old pictures and stories like this. |
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Billy Tonnesen
From:
R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 14 Feb 2008 4:18 pm Foot pedal in the picture of Charles Mitchell
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| I might shed a little light on the PEDAL. It resembles one that was quite popular in the early forties. I do not remember the name. About 1944 I bought what could be this pedal. It seemed to be made of cast iron and went up and down for volume and sideways for tone (bass to treble}. However it operated on the Pot shafts being moved by gears. You had to keep the gears lubricated or it could become very noisy. I do not believe there were any pulley with strings pedals until Paul Bigsby came out with his pedal. As soon as word got around about the Bigsby pedal, myself and every other steel player in town headed to Paul's workshop on Phlox Sreet in Downey, Ca. to get one. I don't remember what happened to my old gear pedal. |
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