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Post by Colin McCubbin on Apr 26, 2007 18:44:46 GMT
Added all the pics I had now, with extra text for some.
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Apr 26, 2007 16:02:35 GMT
Pic 14. The National is a style 0, 14 fret, chicken foot coverplate... I'll add that info..
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Apr 26, 2007 2:31:53 GMT
Following on from the thread that has been running here on the forum about INTERESTING RARE OLD PHOTOS, michaelmesser.proboards7.com/index.cgi?board=tin&action=display&n=1&thread=10 I have for some time been displaying images taken at random from the thread in this forum on my homepage at www.notecannons.comI'm finally taking the step to place the images in a database so that I can also add detail to the displayed picture, such as the name of the artist, instrument, year etc. At present I have 74 old resonator player pics but only have details to accompany 45 of them. Please go to www.notecannons.com/random_pic.php where I am starting to show all the pics in the database I have details for and, if I have any details you believe to be wrong, (or any other error ) please let me know the number of the picture and the corrected details. I will be also adding the pics that I have no details for over the next few days, so if you see a pic with no title and know anything about it, please let us know. Going through the thread today there are quite a few broken links where the image is no longer hosted. If you ever posted a picture to the thread, please check your post(s) and if your pic has vanished, kindly edit your post and reload the picture. I can add a credit to the pics as well, giving credit to whoever supplied them. So if you want public credit please let me know which pic and your name. Thanks!!!! Colin McC
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Apr 12, 2007 19:01:16 GMT
I spoke to roadhouse music, like #73, # 68 has the number written in pencil inside it. (they are asking $4,000 BTW )
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Apr 11, 2007 20:05:03 GMT
Wooden Triolian, serial # 1052
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Apr 11, 2007 19:39:14 GMT
Hi, I'm glad you found the pics of the wooden triolian with the 'bunch of flowers' decal at notecannons interesting. That one is in the USA, but I also own one, sadly in far worse condition which has no number written inside it that I have found. Mine is only fit for Hawaiian style playing, since the neck is severely 'bananad'. One day I will get it to Marc Schoenberger to be returned to the 'straight and narrow' You'll also see one with the hula girl decal, serial # 1517 in the Triolian pages, bought from Music Ground in the UK back in the 80's. (Mark or Michaels' ?). I also have a third one as well as those two, serial# 1052 which is a walnut shaded, no decals body, it is the only one with that colour that I have ever seen, I bought it in Phil's guitars, Seattle some years back, (Phil is Ken Emerson 's brother BTW) I have always assumed it was a test run for the metal body W series. I'll try and add some pics of this one to the triolian pages at notecannons this week. Finally although I have never seen a guitar with the decal, I also have a wood bodied tenor triolian with the ' gent in swimsuit' decal also pictured at notecannons.
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Mar 31, 2007 18:32:08 GMT
Paul Beard also supplies good solid National style tailpieces...
Many late 30's tailpieces were steel BTW, easily spotted by the plating peeling off;-) I haven't seen one of those crack!
Mandolin tailpieces from the 30's almost always fail at the 'bend', (8 strings was just too much) Steve Evans repaired some for me years ago. I haven't seen any of the modern mandolins, to see what they use...
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Apr 7, 2007 23:09:16 GMT
Wow, great pics! I just registered an account at photobucket to see what editing they offer. If you go back to where you stored your pics on photobucket, they have an option to resize them to 640 by 480 which will fit the forum page better, and they will also download quicker. To do this, select a pic, click on edit, then from the resize menu chose 640 by 480 and it is done. Since the pic at photobucket is now saved in the same name as it was before, your pics in your post should automatically now be smaller. (you may have to refresh your browser (reload the page) to see the effect) Aloha, Colin
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Mar 22, 2007 0:56:47 GMT
www.notecannons.com/forum_picture_info.html has some info on how to post a picture here... We look forward to seeing the pictures and comparing the 'insides' with the two patent #s. The wood plate sounds like the one depicted in fig.3 of patent 1,887,861 which in effect acted like the dobro spider, taking the string vibration from the bridge to the cone edge. It may well be all origional and extraordinarily rare, (I've never seen one, only the later patents cone versions) so pictures will be much appreciated! The Patent #1,887,861 was, I believe, the one contested by the National Dobro company, it was too similar to the dobro system, hence the change to the system described in patent #1,927,575. BTW Peter Sloan in Toronto has several Brasher guitars, and would, I'm sure be interested in your find. Aloha Colin
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Jan 25, 2007 18:58:56 GMT
Hijacking this thread slightly, I think I'm right in saying that in the late 60's/70's the 'National' name had been passed to, and was owned by Bill Kaman, www.kamanmusic.com/ whose family owned Ovation and Applause. They had become involved in those instruments since the family business was aviation and Helicopters in particular, so the use of plastics and state of the art lightweight material was part of their everyday life, hence their introduction of the bowl back Ovations. Bill had (and still has) several vintage Nationals and asked Don Young to make him one, which was the 'Cadillac' (if I can find a pic I'll add it here) and in return for the guitar Bill gave Don the 'national' tradename.
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Aug 29, 2006 20:05:35 GMT
Hi Russ, You wrote: (I can't figure out why the vertically-oriented photos insist on presenting themselves horizontally. Maybe once the rainy season (Sept - June) starts in Seattle I'll take some time to improve my basic html skills.)It is still sunny season here a few hundred miles North of you, but September will be here in a few days.. At least here we get 5 months of snow while it is raining with you. Thanks for the info on Delta guitars, I looked at the site and look forward to seeing them at the LRC when I am in Braitain in the late Autumn.. If I may, I'll explain here why your images and page on the Triolian are looking like they are. Firstly the images present horizontally becasuse the pictures are horizontal! i.e the camera was held in portrait mode when the pictures were taken. Html does not have a facility to rotate pictures, so you should first import them into a picture editing program such as photoshop and rotate and then re-save them in the orientation that you want to display them. Secondly, I notice your images are 1008px by 1536px at present, yet in the html you tell the browser to display them as 700px by 525px. This means that you are sending the viewer's browser a picture that is bigger than required and the browser then has to reduce it in size before displaying it. This wastes bandwidth and slows down the display of the image. Probably no great deal if the viewer has a high speed internet access, but a very big deal if they are on dial up. Again a program like photoshop has the facility to resize pictures, in the case of .jpg files you can also reduce the quality and dpi to 72 for the web. Using your Delta Triolian full back.jpg as an example you currently have a file of 9Meg (max quality) which you send to the viewer, but even without resizing it, it optomizes down to 595k just by using a .jpg 'high' quality setting. If the size is also reduced to your ideal 525px wide at 72dpi it drops to 65.3k That is a massive reduction from 9 meg! Yet the viewer still sees exacly the same image to all intents and purposes. One final note, you have used spaces in your file names. Some servers have a hard time with this, so it is better to either 'CamelCase' names en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase or use a hypen or underscore between words. This will save you some pain at some point in the future! Hope this all makes sense, email me if you want, Aloha, Colin McC
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Aug 8, 2006 19:28:45 GMT
Stuart,
I see that 'Fred Kelly Speed Picks" are stocked at a Vancouver store so I'll drop by and take a look.
Thanks for the info.
Aloha
Colin
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Jul 17, 2006 1:21:03 GMT
On a scale of 1 to 10 those rate low... Now this one has a really high 'what happened to that?' rating.. It was offered to me about 15 years ago, My origional pics at higher resolution clearly show a style 4, at I think $2,500. I turned it down and failed to keep the details over the years. The story I was told was that it had belonged to a 'favorite son' who had died in ww2 and that the instrument had been interred with him! How it was retrieved I never asked... I now wish I still had the serial #, it would be interesting to see if it was renecked and being loved again. I'm sure the first owner would have been happy for it to still be being played and loved.
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Jul 3, 2006 0:01:26 GMT
We now have a help page on posting pictures using a free hosting service.
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Jun 25, 2006 22:49:15 GMT
Send it to us conehead@notecannons.com and we'll post it/host it for you.
Colin
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