The Collings MF is a visually simplified yet extremely high quality instrument, based on the classic F style carved top and back mandolins from the early years of the Twentieth Century. Building in Austin, Texas, Collings produces very well built guitars and mandolins, and their nitrocellulose lacquer finish quality is second to none.
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Here we have an early ODE long neck – 32.25 inch scale! – banjo built by Chuck Ogsbury near Denver, Colorado in the dawning days of the 1960s. This interesting banjo features a cast aluminum pot with integral arch-top tone ring, a design developed for the second or third 100-instrument run of ODE banjos. With a serial number of 556, this banjo
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MORE →Designed in collaboration with Mike Dowling, the National Mike Dowling Signature El Trovador is a single cone guitar patterned after the famous National El Trovador between 1932 and 1933. The National Mike Dowling El Trovador guitar features a large, 4 inch deep body built from mahogany laminate with a wooden soundwell for the resonator.
Here’s something special that we don’t see every day – a Fender Nashville B-Bender Telecaster®, factory stock with the Parsons-Green B Bender! Originally designed by Gene Parsons and Clarence White in 1968, the B-Bender installs to a significantly modified Telecaster body. A large amount of wood is removed from the back of the body to accommodate a set of levers, springs and linkages from the upper strap pin to a roller behind the B string saddle
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MORE →Based on the classic 1930’s ‘Duolian’ style design, this National Raw Series is a single-cone, 12-fret Resophonic guitar with the ‘Raw ‘ wax finish. The first instruments built by the National String Instrument Corporation were the famous Tri-Cone models and were invented to address the need for more volume in a time before electric amplification.
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MORE →Built 2002 to 2011, the Taylor NS62ce was a ‘crossover’ model, part of the Nylon Series. A ‘Crossover’ usually has a number of features seldom found on other nylon string guitars, including a cutaway plus a narrower, crowned fingerboard and often electronics.
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