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Topic: New Oahu Diana |
Bill McCloskey
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Posted 28 May 2010 6:37 pm |
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I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had my eye on this really nice Oahu Diana 6 string at the local guitar store. Today I traded a couple of guitars I wasn't playing anymore for it. Original case in excellent condition, the steel sounds wonderful and what a pleasure and delight to sit here and jam away on open E after playing some of the 8 string tunings. Much shorter scale than I'm used to I think, forward and reverse slants are easy to hit. Just a wonderful instrument.
I think the guitar guy and I both got a good deal. I unloaded two entry level guitars that I never play and are sitting in the closet that he should be able to sell for $300 over what he was asking for the Oahu, and he was asking above the normal high price for this guitar.
Does anyone know how to date these things? |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 29 May 2010 9:29 am
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| Dianas and Tonemasters are my favorite vintage steels. Never heard a TM I didn't love. |
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Richard Shatz
From:
St. Louis
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Posted 29 May 2010 6:09 pm
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They are really great instruments.
Bill,
Which one did you get; this one with the 25 1/2" scale?
Or, was it this one with a 25" scale?
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 29 May 2010 7:55 pm
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| the 25" inch scale. Just love it. |
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Michael Lee Allen
From:
Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 31 May 2010 9:32 am
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Chris Walke
From:
St Charles, IL
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Posted 3 Jun 2010 12:33 pm
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$110.00??? I'll take TWO!!
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***WARNING: the above commentary is probably Chris' OPINION, and therefore, he thinks he's right. |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 3 Jun 2010 1:24 pm
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| Back then $110 was half a year of wages for some folks. |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 3 Jun 2010 2:57 pm
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According to my inflation calculator, $110 in 1951 would be $898 in 2009.
Since they go for much less than that now, you can get 2 even cheaper now. |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 3 Jun 2010 3:08 pm
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| I thought those were built in the forties. My gradfather told me that in 1946 when he got his first job he made 15.00 a week as a printer, and he and my grandmother's rent was 18.00 a month. Don't know if that was a stretcher or the truth, but he was in central Indiana and those were tough times in that part of the country in those days. |
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Richard Shatz
From:
St. Louis
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Posted 3 Jun 2010 5:14 pm
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Thanks Michael for once again coming up with the exactly correct documentation for just about any piece of lap steel guitar history.
Do you or anyone else know the year span of the Diana? |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 3 Jun 2010 7:59 pm
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 4 Jun 2010 3:45 am
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| Last night my girlfriend said to me: You are never selling this one. She loves the sound of it better than any of the other steels I have. |
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Chris Walke
From:
St Charles, IL
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Posted 4 Jun 2010 5:26 am
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Now that's a special girl ya got there.
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