Aria Pro II 2 Takeuchi Floyd Rose

The tuners say Aria Pro II and this is the only marking on the guitar beside the Takeuchi Floyd Rose.

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Audiovox

RARE 1930’s Lap Steel

Model #436-A

Made by Paul Tutmarc

One of the 1st Solid Body Electric Guitars Ever Made!

Great Original Condition

with Original Tweed case

This is one of the Rarest of the Rare historical pieces to emerge in years!

Your chance to own a piece of Music History

It was the winter of 1930–1931, according to his son, that Tutmarc began experimenting in his basement workshop with a fellow tinkerer on a secret project. Tutmarc’s collaborator was Arthur “Art” J. Stimson, a jack-of-all-trades from Spokane, Washington, who’d worked as an auto mechanic and an aerial photographer. Together the two — each inspired by the telephone’s mechanism — created a large mutant version of Ma Bell’s dinky transducer. They attached an iron blade with copper wire coiled around it to a large horseshoe shaped magnet. When placed inside Tutmarc’s flat-top Spanish-style guitar and plugged into a converted radio, the magnetic device picked-up the instrument’s sound, amplified it, and surprised the partners with the beautiful tone it brought forth.

The two partners soon realized the importance of their discovery, but they differed on the next step to take. Stimson wanted to sell or license the “pickup” to some big company, while Tutmarc thought it best to quietly seek protective registration for its design with the federal Office of Patents. Unfortunately after investing $300 with attorneys who initiated a patent search with the government, Tutmarc was ultimately advised that their pickup design was non-patentable because the telephone companies had already patented similar devices.

A disappointed Tutmarc put his electric guitar dreams on hold, while Stimson, apparently, headed off to Los Angeles where he said he was going to try to interest others in the idea.

One can imagine the shock then when Tutmarc — a music teacher, shopkeeper, and dealer of instruments — eventually took notice after a Los Angeles-based firm began selling their “Electro String Instruments” in August 1932. That company (eventually known as Rickenbacker International Corp.) was headed by a skilled engineer, Adolph Rickenbacher, whose machine shop had been fabricating metal parts for two of the town’s successful guitar-making firms, the National String Instrument Corp. and the related Dobro Manufacturing Co. since about 1928.

Read the whole story here;

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7479

This instrument has been authenticized by

Peter Blecha, former curator of the Experience Music Project

and Audiovox Historian

Read about Pete here;

http://archive.mailtribune.com/archive/2005/0731/life/stories/03life.htm

Gibson

J-180

2000

Black

Post Everly Brothers Model

Great Condition

Great Playing and Sounding Guitar!

Some Finish Checking on the lower Bout and back

Thinline Pickup

Original Gibson Hard Shell Case

Silvertone Harmony

1964

Model 319-12120000

Made in The USA

Great Original Condition

Chipboard Case

Led Zepplin Jimmy Page

Stairway to Heaven

Epiphone

Dregen

Nicke

Les Paul Custom

 Limited Edition

2004

Excellent Original Condition

Has minor nicks, scuffs and dings

Custom “Skull & Crossbones” graphic treatment

on front and graphics on the back as well.

(these are not stickers)

Equipped with Gibson USA 490R and 498T Pickups