MARCO BESSONE - BOSSANOVA PAGE. Zavaletas guitars - Fine Classical and Flamenco Guitars for sale - Zavaleta. Vintage Instruments - Buy Vintage Instruments for sale online. When was my guitar made?, 型のギターの通し番号. Scenario 3 - Determining date of manufacture from other sources If you cannot find helpful information on the instrument itself do not despair.
There are other ways: Manufacturing date range Some instruments are easy to date simply because historical records indicate that the manufacturer or brand was only made for a limited period. For example if you have a Bond branded guitar it was made either in 1984 or 1985 as that was the life of that brand. Jedistar attempts to publish manufacturing start and finish dates. Of course this source of dating information is not reliable for brands that have been around for a long time such as Martin, Fender and so on... For American made guitars pre World War II Mugwumps provides an extraordinary resource: Model date range Some manufacturers offer specific models for a limited period only. If you have any old catalogs of guitars, amps, effects, drums - please scan them (pdf is best) and email to jedistar. Other documents and circumstantial information. Vintage Guitars Info - Epiphone vintage guitar collecting general info.
Blue Book of Guitar Values- Used guitar, amp, amplifier, values, pricing and information. Guitar Collector Forum. George Gruhn On Proper Guitar Wood Treatment. Gruhn Guitars: Just Because Your Guitar Is Old Does Not Mean It Is Vintage. George Gruhn's History Of Guitar Woods. Guitar Manufacturers - Acoustic, Archtop, Classical and Electric. Home Page. Help Identifying a Goya Classical Guitar ... Pre 60's! in Classical Gas Forum. The best source of information for Goya and Levin is without doubt the Levin pages at homepage of Vintage Guitars in Stockholm.
Rikard Magnevil has done a great job in documenting all types of Goya labels he has come across, which includes all of my Goya instruments. Follow this link for a very good mapping of Goya serial numbers for all relevant periods in time: I would say number 116114 can be dated to 1962 with pretty good confidence. The information I have is that zip codes were itroduced in NY in july 1963, which fits well to this. I have never ever come across such a pickguard on a Levin or Goya instrument, and the G-10 also did not come with a pickguard. Regarding maple vs. birch, I ave never seen or heard of any G-10:s with maple bodies but that doesn´t mean they don´t exist. Mike, a bit off topic to this thread, but I thought You might be interrested to see a picture I ran across on internet the other day. Www.vintage-guitars.se/1961_Goya_catalog.pdf.
Vintage Goya Guitars. NOTE: As best I can tell, "Goya" brand guitars were made starting in 1954 and ending in 1996.
The Goya brand name was initially used by the Hershman Musical Instrument Company of New York (Goya Guitars Inc.). The "Goya" name comes from Francisco Jose de Goya, the famous 18th century Spanish painter known as the father of modern art (Francisco drew a lot of Spanish guitar players too). The distribution for Goya guitars went from Hershman to Kustom Electronics Inc. in 1970 and then over to Dude Inc. (both of Chanute, Kansas) in late 1972 as best I can tell. Most of the acoustic guitars during this perion (1954-1973) were handmade in Sweden by the Levin company (I believe the possible exceptions were the G-50 models made in the USA based on descriptions in some of my Goya catalogs). Sparkle plastic covered Model 80 (ESP24 Standard) and Model 90 (EDP46) hollowbody electric "Les Pauls" (with replaceable pickup assemblies) - made by Hagstrom - introduced mid 1959.
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