German 1926 twin resonator ad...

[Colin McCubbin]

I've just been sent this page from a German companies sales brochure dating from October 1926. It appears to show a range of instruments with two resonators. It would be fascinating to know if any of them actually exist and what form the resonators took.. Translation please Marshcat! ;-)

C.G.Glier & Sohn
Spezialpreisliste
Oktober 1926

[Tymus]

Interesting looking instrument.
The catalogue is available on CD on ebay
cgi.ebay.com/1926-Glier-Sohn-musical-instrument-catalog-CD-/380225067314

I found these photos of a similar Banjolo but with skins and what seems to be carved resonance chambers on the back of the body.
www.banjoworld.de/Odds3.htm

[Colin McCubbin]

Hi Tymus,

Thanks for the link, that guy has a serious case of BAS... ;D And some spectacular instruments!

I'll drop him a line and see if he has any information on the Glier instruments.

Colin

[Tymus]

H Colin.
Yes he's got some nice oddities, I like the Banjophone!
www.banjoworld.de/odds11.htm

Somewhere on the web I've seen an Australian guy doing something similar, using two loudspeakers for cones.
Tymus

[leeophonic]

Colin

Vorsprung durch technik banjo.

Lee

[daddyslide]

Krauts...

I heard that Garry Moore covers his hookline of "still got the blues" from an unknown german kraut-rockin' man.
;D

So, the stoy of resophonic guitars has to be writen new now??
Ok, it was just a joke *hahahaha*

Thanks for sharing this stuff.
you make my day.

[Tymus]

Hi Colin,

I’m wondering, have you managed to find out any more info on this peculiar instrument?

Tymus.

[Tymus]

Hi Colin,

It seems that they did make some, well one at least!

www.digitaltmuseum.no/things/banjolo/RMT/RMT%202011/3?material=S%C3%B8lv&search_context=1&pos=2&count=7786

This is a 12 string mandolin but looking at the headstock it appears to have been re-drilled and the tailpiece shows eight lugs so I guess it was originally an eight string mando.

I had a few problems accessing the page so I've copied and pasted the photos here. Also on the page is some info which I can't understand and google failed to give me a legible translation, I think it's Norwegian, so if anyone can translate it would be interesting to see what it says!











Tymus.

[oscar]

by 1926 not a really new design.

it uses 2 phonograph/gramophone cartridges made by nirosa, a german manufacturer.

more than 25 years earlier august stroh had already used this design for his stroh fiddles, cellos, mandolins, ukuleles and hawaiian guitars.they were copied all over the world. I think these instruments ( and notably their small aluminium "resonators") have inspired george beauchamp and john dopyera.

[Colin McCubbin]

Tymus, many thanks for the GREAT link to pictures!

And, Oscar, thanks for reminding us of Stroh... I have a page at notecannons.com devoted to this, with many pictures of instruments, they can be found by visiting the site, scrolling down the left hand menu and clicking on STROVIOLS. I was fortunate to see and hold a Strohviols Hawaiian guitar about 20 years ago on a visit to the US, at the Erie Museum of Modern Art. Does that 'resonator' remind you of anything?

From that page:
Stroviols Instruments.

These fantastic instruments are often believed to have been the source of John Dopyera's resonator concept. They were invented by John Matthias Augustus Stroh, and were at their most popular in the early 1900's. They are the subject of two British Patents, No.9418 dated 1899 & No.3393 dated 1901.

Stroh was a watchmaker who settled in Britain in 1851, and who worked with the British inventor Charles Wheatstone in the mid to late 19th century. They also collaborated on the Wheatstone Concertena and an'automatic telegraph' . Stroh was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1828 and died in London, Great Britain in 1914.

Instruments bearing the Stroviols name were made by his son Charles from about 1901 to 1924, and then under licence in Britain by George Evans & Co, up till about 1942. The violins alone still being manufactured by Strohviolin."

A Stroviols Hawaiian guitar.

[Deleted]

A 'twin resonator', or a real "Deux Bro"
Get it? Get it?

Ha!

[daddyslide]

looks great!