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Post by Colin McCubbin on May 15, 2014 20:06:35 GMT
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Post by Colin McCubbin on May 4, 2014 18:09:23 GMT
Anyone in the Brighton, UK area?
Hopefully someone from 'our' forums is local and can report back. Sounds like a fun evening!
Friday, May 23 at 7:30pm St Luke's Church, Queens Park Road, BN2 9BZ Brighton
Celebrating English Eccentricity from Ketèlbey to the Kinks.
Duck Soup are known for their unique take on English traditional folk music, making use of marimbas, melodeons, dobros and anything else they can lay their hands on.
The Trio Buschellini play the finset in Edwardian and Victorian pop music for phonofiddles, musical saws and piano.
This very special concert includes solo sets from both groups, as well as riotous collaborations, and includes music by composers including Vivian Ellis, Edward Elgar, Queen Lili'uokalani and "Anon".
Let them transport you from the Village Green to a Persian Market, and back again.
Tickets cost £7 / £5 / £3 under 12s. The concert starts at 7.30 (doors open around 7.10) Wine and refreshments are available in the interval
Part of Brighton Festival Fringe
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Apr 29, 2014 1:16:08 GMT
Sold... Or, rather, bought! Heading to notecannons HQ as we speak. Can't wait to get a good look at the cone/resonator in one of these at last. Mahalo Snakehips for the heads up ;-)
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Apr 2, 2014 1:45:18 GMT
The sun's not yet over the yardarm on the 1st here in Western Canada so I hope I'm not too late to say, "Michael, surely you meant 'April Wool'...?" This vies with smarthome's iCatbot
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Mar 3, 2014 22:58:23 GMT
Over the years I have been, with the help of various folk from this forum, been compiling a list of not just resonator guitar related patents, but anything I can find on patents taken out worldwide by Augustus Stroh, Charles Brasher, NW Shireson, the Dopyeras and Geo. Beauchamp.
I'm listing those I have, (from the USA, Canada, and Great Britain) some in full, some simply as scans of a page or pages, and intend to reorganize the patents page(s) at notecannons to display them.
If anyone has any extra patent information from any country or, indeed any inventor that I don't have on my list please chime in with the information.
Please quote the patent number if querying anything in my list below.
Thank you!
Great Britain GB9418 Augustus Stroh, Dated: 24th March 1900. Title: Improvements in Violins and other Stringed Instruments GB3393 Augustus Stroh, Dated: 14th Dec 1901. Title: Improvements in the Diaphragms of Phonographs, Musical Instruments, and anologous Sound-producing, Recording and Transmitting Contrivances. GB294806 John Dopyera, Dated: 2nd August 1928. Title: Improvements in Stringed Instruments.
Canada CA285424 John Dopyera, Dated: 7th June 1927 CA315546 John Dopyera, Rudolph Dopyera, Emil E. Dopyera.Dated: 31st May, 1930 CA349662 Charles Edward Brasher. Dated: 27th October 1934
USA US644695 Augustus Stroh Dated: 6th March 1900 Title: Violin US1649101 J. Dopyera Dated: 15th Nov 1927 Title:Banjo US1672153 J. Dopyera Dated: 5th June 1928 Title: Banjo US1730032 R. Dopyera Dated: 1st Oct 1929 Title: :Banjo Uke: US1741453 J. Dopyera Dated: 31st Dec 1929 Title: Stringed Musical Instrument US1750881 J. Dopyera Dated: Title:Stringed Musical Instrument US1762617 J. Dopyera Dated: 10th June 1930 Title: Stringed Musical Instrument US1787136 G.D.Beauchamp Dated: 30th Dec 1930 Title: Pick for Stringed Musical Instruments US1803100 R. Dopyera Dated: 29April 1931 Title: Stringed Musical Instrument US1808756 G.D.Beauchamp Dated: 9th June Title: Stringed Musical Instrument US86705 R. Dopyera 12th April 1932 Dated: Title: Cover Plate for Musical Instruments US1872633 R. Dopyera Dated: 16th Aug 1932 Title: Stringed Musical Instrument US1896484 R. Dopyera Dated: 7th Feb 1933 Title: Stringed Musical Instrument US1927575 N.W.Shireson Dated: 19th Sept 1933 Title: Stringed Instrument US2027723 R. Dopyera Dated: 14th Jan 1936 Title: Stringed Musical Instrument US98295 R. Dopyera Dated: 28h Jan 1936 Title: Musical Instrument US2029469 R. Dopyera Dated: 4th Feb 1936 Title: Resonator for Stringed Musical Instruments US2045265 R. Dopyera Dated: 23rd June 1936 Title: Stringed Musical Instrument US2045571 R. Dopyera Dated: 30th June 1936 Title: Pick for Stringed Musical Instruments US2089171 G.D.Beauchamp Dated: 10th August 1937 Title: Electrical Stringed Musical Instrument US2138907 R. Dopyera Dated: 6th Dec 1938 Title:Stringed Musical Instrument US2170294 R. Dopyera Dated: 22nd Aug 1939 Title: Electrical Stringed Musical Instrument US3435721 R. Dopera Dated: 1st April 1969 Title: Guitar Construction
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Mar 3, 2014 3:00:59 GMT
I am still in love with the pair of Tannoys a friend gave me! I have honestly never heard anything so clear, but I am a simpleton. Simpleton...? Nope! A man of exquisite taste! As Michael will recall when I lived down the road from him in Taplow I had a pair of Tannoy GRF labyrinth speakers with 15" drivers powered by a pair of quad 11 power amps. When I emigrated to Canada they were one of the things I couldn't bare to part with, so, despite their massive size, which sadly scores them low on WAF (the all important Wife Approval Factor) I still think Tannoy made the best speakers I ever heard. In the 70s and 80s I built literally a hundred nightclub sound systems across Europe, all used Quad 303 0r 404/5 power amps and, usually 4 or more 15" monitor golds or HPD drivers in custom built cabinets. I spent hours at the Tannoy plant in, (I think) Norwood, S London dropping off units for re-cones and picking them up again, we tended to melt voice coils at the height of 'disco fever'.. I've built Tannoys into all sorts of enclosures mainly composites of wood, but some were brick, and am currently planning on casting pair of in-situ concrete cabinets for a pair of HPDs that came off ebay. My hat goes off to Tymus' builder though, I just hope he hasn't any neighbours on the floor below (or, within the surrounding square mile!) Colin
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Mar 2, 2014 17:17:57 GMT
If you were gigging with this you wouldn't need to go to the Gym! Photo courtesy Becca Kristovsky If anyone has pictures of, or knows the location of one please tell us about it. Thanks!
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Mar 2, 2014 17:11:32 GMT
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Feb 27, 2014 20:22:15 GMT
Re GB Patent numbers: How to search on worldwide.espacenet.com/It took a while but finally I stumbled upon this advice: Before 1916 British patent numbers returned to one at the beginning of each year. The number format used for them on Espacenet® is GByyyynnnnn where yyyy is the full four-digit year and nnnnn is the five-digit number. If the number has less than five digits you need to add zeroes at the beginning to make it five digits, so that for instance patent number 154 of 1905 is recorded on Espacenet® as GB190500154. In 1916 a continuous number series began, starting with GB100001. If you have a patent number with five digits or less and no year is given there is unfortunately no easy way on Espacenet to retrieve all patents with that number. You will have to try searching by applicant and/or subject, or if you have the patience try each year in turn in the format above.Trying this I now have successfully downloaded copies of both of Stroh's Patents and John Dopyera's GB one mentioned 2 post above. Once tidied up (they are in pdf format so I will make each page a .png image) I will post them here and under the patents page at notecannons.
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Feb 27, 2014 16:30:59 GMT
Someone recently told me that it was 'impolite' to call these instruments "Jap Fiddles" I guess that to some folk it might possibly be so, but here from the 1931 Rose Morris Catalogue is where I learned the term.
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Feb 27, 2014 2:26:51 GMT
Thanks for the heads up! I notice that Centerstream have it at $55 while Amazon.com is $37.51 ...! I wonder how much, if any, is based on this Centerstream book that reached proof copies at about the same time as Brozman's book but was never published due apparently to a falling out between the authors..
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Feb 26, 2014 23:34:29 GMT
Lots of the photo links have disappeared from posts in this thread. When I get a spare ten minutes I will tidy the thread by deleting posts that have lost their photo attachments. It is a great thread & well worth bumping! Shine On Michael Following on from Michael's post.. I've been meaning for some time to go through all 21 pages (yes it is dumping snow again here in Osoyoos, BC, Canada -12 overnight, and cabin fever is setting in ;-) ) in this thread and try to work out why so many of the pics I posted in the past aren't appearing. As far as I knew the pics were still on the notecannons server. BTW All the pictures I have archived from this forum are now in a gallery at: notecannons.com/pics/After some head scratching, I checked the HTML of apost with missing picture using 'view source'. Very strange, it just contained <src=""> In other words no source image file for the browser to go get.. Then I clicked on edit and noticed that although the image file name showed, http:// was missing from the start of the file name. It appears as though the parser used by proboards at some time in the past was changed and if http:// wasn't in the saved file name then it no longer automatically added it. I've been through about 20 of my early posts and done the edit of adding http:// and the pictures are now back in the posts. Please can anyone who posted in the early days of the thread browse back through their posts and see if their pictures show up, and if not perhaps that is the reason why. In going through I also notice that several pictures are missing from other folk's posts because they are no longer at their hosting services on the web. Now that we can save files on the proboard's server that is not going to be the case in future, but again please check your posts and if a pic is missing please try to fix it! Mahalo!
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Feb 26, 2014 16:27:51 GMT
Bad grammer on my behalf, I'm afraid. I meant " The appropriation of the name National " Hi davey, Actually they acquired the right to use the National name quite legitimately from the previous owner Bill Kaman.. The story as I understand it the name passed in a series of postwar acquisitions first to Valco then to Strum and Drum. Then onto Kaman industries who were themselves inventors of the Ovation and Applause 'bowl backed' instruments. (The Kaman family were involved making composite parts for helicopters hence the synthetic material used when they started Ovation) Bill Kaman, when I started being interested in vintage Nationals had a large collection of prewar Nats and even published a book of his collection. I believe I obtained copies for Michael and Mark many years ago. Bill asked Don Young, who was then at OMI (with Marc Schoenberger) to make him a 'new' National, which they did, pics can be found on the web it was called the 'Cadillac'. In return Bill 'gave' Don Young the right to use the National name. (whether he passed on 'ownership' or just the 'right to use' I'm not certain.) Finally, fed up with the stuff OMI were cranking out Don left OMI to start building instruments in his own right, and out of respect for the old National instruments called his enterprise 'National Resophonic'. Which name (and distinction) they still use. Unfortunately folk around the world abbreviate that erroneously to just National. I'm sure that others will chime in and correct me or add to this story;-)
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Feb 26, 2014 15:48:35 GMT
I also contacted her, and in my best(?) German pointed out that as we have all observed it is a 70s model 36. I also pointed out that the brochure was on our notecannons site. She replied in German, but via the magic of Google Translate, here is her reply.. "After several well-intentioned letter of interested and Dobro connoisseurs I 'm finally convinced that it is right to correct my offer. I would like to thank here for all kinds of information that have led to now make a hopefully correct assignment . Particularly unique is the catalog of Dopeyra Brothers , in which I have actually found again for the first time after a long search on the internet my Dobro Model: It is exactly the model No. 36, "The Rose" . For comparison:
notecannons.com/catalogues/1970s_dobro/index.php
Then I could find a further description , the neck of the described model is a bit different, but the body is exactly the same : www.resoguitars.com/Dobro_Blech_M-36.html
I have not yet found a precise indication of the annual production , but it seems the fact that you can not make assignment based solely on the serial numbers. Due to the Prefix-B before the- missing serial number the Dobro was assigned to the year 1931. The connoisseurs among you but noticed that many of the characteristics (shape of the f- holes , fiddle edge) missing from these years of my Dobro , refer other features ( metal body , ..) to a later date of production. Also from the Dobro catalog is now clearly indicates a production year for the Dobro Model 36 . All I really know is that we have bought already used in the second half of the 70s this guitar, so it is older than 1975 in all cases.
Since I can now set any changes in this property more ( probably because of several price quotes ? ) , I suggest that interested buyers should send now just new price proposals .
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Post by Colin McCubbin on Feb 25, 2014 22:00:20 GMT
Dated Feb 24th..
From Harry Manx: …’Beloved friends, with a heavy heart I want to tell you all that this morning at Chicago Ohara airport, while I was on my way to retrieving my luggage, someone stole my beloved Mohan Veena. Security cameras showed a man pick it up and walk out. I’ve had that Veena more than 20 years. There’s hardly been a day that I haven’t played it. I feel as though I’ve lost a good friend. I need everyone’s help to find it. If you know someone in Chicago, tell them about it. Maybe it will surface on Craigs list or E-bay. Maybe in a music store or Pawn shop. There’s no missing it. The Veena is in a Black Fibreglass Case with lots of stickers. And the Veena has 20 Strings, 2 layers of strings running parallel. It has tuning heads right down the neck. No other instrument looks like this. I’m grateful for any help’…. Thanks Harry
…’This the case that holds Harrys’ Veena. It’s big like a jumbo sized guitar. The material inside is red velvet. There are some Air Canada fragile stickers on it. Plus one from the ABC in Australia. And one sticker (shown) from the band “Le Vent Du Nord”. The handle is leather with a piece of plastic emerging from it. One tuning peg that is gold while the other 19 are black’… .
Please if you see this Mohan Veena, do not approach any person with it, contact local police.
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