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Topic: Rare and Old But Not "Valuable" |
Stephen Watson
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Texas, USA
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Posted 7 Jun 2012 6:23 am |
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Found this about 40 years ago, and when I asked around to determine what it was, most everyone was quick to tell me it "wasn't worth much".
I guess most people want to know the money value, hoping they've found a gold mine.
All I was trying to do is find out what it was.
A friendly gentlemen on a bluegrass forum sent me the scan from an old Polk catalogue. It's the cheaper one on the right for $13.90, the "Model A".
Turns out it's a "Dalanta" fauxbro from the '30's.
I've had fantasies that Muddy played it on the front porch. 
D'Armand pickup and controls were added when I was young and foolish.
It hammers out some pretty good Delta blues.
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Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 7 Jun 2012 6:31 am
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Cool old axe and history. The electronics appear to be professionally installed so I wouldn't worry about that.
Lot's of character there.   Bet is sounds nice. |
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Stephen Watson
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Texas, USA
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Posted 7 Jun 2012 6:38 am
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| Jerry Overstreet wrote: |
Cool old axe and history. The electronics appear to be professionally installed so I wouldn't worry about that.
Lot's of character there. Bet is sounds nice. |
Thanks. It's become an old friend by now.
And, yes, they were installed by a longhair, hippie type luthier at Blue Ridge Music in Encinitas, Ca. in the '70's. I remember him wanting to follow in the footsteps of Uris Zeltan at the Blue Guitar in San Diego. |
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 7 Jun 2012 8:16 am
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oh man, i would LOVE to hear some of the music from that photo!
its a shame african american string band music fell extinct. one of the coolest depression era field recordings i ever heard was fiddle / slide guitar and a guy buck dancing and "hamboning" the rhythms.
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Mike Anderson
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British Columbia, Canada
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Stephen Watson
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 7 Jun 2012 8:26 am
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Considering the hole pattern in the metal, it sure looks like a Dalanta to me.
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 7 Jun 2012 9:01 am
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those cats are from right up the road. my bluegrass band played a "heritage" festival about 6-7 years ago(?) before they hit it big and i saw this very attractive AA girl with a banjo, now you dont see that very often! - she was wonderful, i thought the band was a little "jug-band-y" but that was the point.
next thing i know they are on NPR, Prairie Home Companion, and then up and up.
as a matter of opinion, i think their rise was in part due to nobody else was left or interested to carry this on.
there was a huge african string band culture around here up til the 50's due to the tobacco farms. whats interesting is that it was completely different than the typical "delta" blues everybody thinks of - it was more ragtime, very advanced.
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J Fletcher
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London,Ont,Canada
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Posted 7 Jun 2012 9:44 am
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Isn't that a pic of Muddy Waters, circa 1942?
There are Library of Congress recordings avaiable of Muddy from then. With Son Simms if I recall correctly...Jerry |
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John Mulligan
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 7 Jun 2012 12:38 pm
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It is Son Simms and Muddy Waters; I clipped this image from this website: http://blog.lemuriabooks.com
in a blog about the book Lost Delta Found, writings about the blues from the 1940's.
The musiv these men made can be sampled from the cuts on the cd Complete Plantation Recordings: Historic 1941-1942, by Muddy Waters. It's the Alan Lomax recordings.
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Mike Anderson
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 7 Jun 2012 3:00 pm
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| Jerome Hawkes wrote: |
those cats are from right up the road. my bluegrass band played a "heritage" festival about 6-7 years ago(?) before they hit it big and i saw this very attractive AA girl with a banjo, now you dont see that very often! - she was wonderful, i thought the band was a little "jug-band-y" but that was the point.
next thing i know they are on NPR, Prairie Home Companion, and then up and up.
as a matter of opinion, i think their rise was in part due to nobody else was left or interested to carry this on. |
I hear ya. How cool is that? I heard them first on PBS, don't remember what show but you could have knocked me over with a feather. That is what I call BIG-time artistic risk-taking, especially with the economy as it is. |
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