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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 20:27:59 GMT
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Post by Brad Bechtel on Sept 22, 2014 14:46:07 GMT
Fascinating. I've never seen one of these before.
The label on the headstock apparently says "Wagner, King of Instruments, Budapest" with an address at the bottom. I couldn't find any information in English or Hungarian on that brand.
Thanks for sharing!
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Post by pascal on Sept 23, 2014 7:35:29 GMT
I am not such surprised, here is a 1949 pic of my good lost friend Harry Hougassian (an Armenian/French virtuoso lap steel player who played in Paris post war II) It was quiet difficult to find/order instruments from the US at these time. Only Gino Bordin could afford, via his pal Maccaferri, a 1936 National cast lap steel. The others, as Harry told me, had to find luthiers in EU, able to built their instruments. So the one in this pic was manufactured by a Hungarian guy, may be the same Wagner builder as that acoustic "Gretsch" copy, who knows?  |
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