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Hawaiian Band
Unknown Band.
Style 2 National Spanish neck guitar in front. Can anyone help with names?

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Early Square Neck Tricone Headstock

Early Square Neck Tricone Headstock.

****************************Stolen! Duolian C5673*************************

STOLEN FROM EDDIE MARTIN AT A FESTIVAL IN BELGIUM, EUROPE ON SATURDAY 8th AUGUST 2009

Stolen Duolian C5673

Eddie's Duolian has been resprayed and had horizontal block inlays placed in the fingerboard.

If this instrument is offered to you for sale, or you know who currently has it, please contact us, with as much info as possible and we will pass the information on to the owner.

The owner is offering a reward for the return of his guitar.

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----For sale----

Many of the instruments didplayed here are currently for sale, through Marc Schoenberger's site. Master luthier (and Bob Brozman's recomended National repairman) Marc has done a full service and set up on all the instruments that are for sale there, please go and take a look! (A spectacularly clean Aragon de Luxe is currently for sale there, set up by Marc and 'ready to go'.)

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John & Rudy Dopyera's workbench

The bench on which Rudy (the metalworker) and John (the 'inventor') Dopyera built the first guitars!

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