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Topic: Please check out this Guldan that I won on ebay |
Andre Nizzari
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Posted 22 Jun 2009 7:19 pm |
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360163155476
I got it for under 250. Even though it's a "no name" brand it looks exactly like a pre war gibson with a "motel soap bar" pickup. I had to jump on it to check this thing out. Any info or thoughts would be appreciated.
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Tom Pettingill
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 23 Jun 2009 6:55 am
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The seller has removed the photos of the instrument. Any chance you've saved one or more of them and can post them here?
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Andre Nizzari
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Bronx, NY
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Posted 23 Jun 2009 7:28 am
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Andre Nizzari
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Posted 23 Jun 2009 7:55 am
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It even has the same bridge and binding as the pre war gibson. Take a peak:
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Tom Gray
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Decatur, GA
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Posted 23 Jun 2009 8:15 am
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That looks like a DiArmond pickup, same as those used in the 1950s Harmony Stratotones. Rick Holmstrom, Tom Waits and John Hammond Jr. use those. I've got one in a Harlin Brothers MultiKord, and it's got a lot of mojo to it.
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Andre Nizzari
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Bronx, NY
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Posted 24 Jun 2009 3:07 am
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Anybody else got any more info on this steel? 
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Denny Turner
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Oahu, Hawaii USA
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Posted 26 Jun 2009 5:23 am
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That is a score ....imho.
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| Anybody else got any more info on this steel? |
Search SGF and the old SGF archives for > Epitome < (lap steels and amps). There's some info about Guldan, a piano & violin company that made a zillion Epitome's for the pre and post WWII Hawaiian Guitar teaching craze; ...The best I could determine they were distributed / sold (?) mostly by some Music Teachers guild (forgot the name, ....out of California if I remember correctly). 
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Tom's right; Those pickups have allot of mojo and cover a very broad range of tones / styles, ....just remember what the pre-amp gain and volume controls on the amp are for ! 
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Brad Bechtel
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Posted 26 Jun 2009 7:23 am
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These were apparently made by the Jackson Guldan Company of Columbus, Ohio. The company was better known as a violin maker, but dabbled in Hawaiian guitars as well. I see these every so often on the internet, but have no information on the company or its models.
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Andre Nizzari
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Bronx, NY
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Posted 26 Jun 2009 7:40 am
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Thanks guys for the help. I'm curious about the bridge on this Guldan because it's the same as the Gibson. Was there a company that manufactured the bridges for different steel guitar companies back in the days?
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