Magnatone Varsity Lap Steel Guitar

In the forties gaston fator guitar studios in los angeles bought the business from dickerson.

Magnatone varsity lap steel guitar. The lady below is a totally cool lapsteel guitar from the golden age of high strings and steel bars. For the most part magna literature doesn t start crediting bigsby with the steel guitar designs until after 1957 but he was involved much earlier in the 1950 s with all of the steel guitars. The magnatone g65 from 1955. Magnatone was mostly producing cheap student grade laspsteels back then most of them featuring weak pickups and colorful funky mots covering.

There were four controls. The master collection is the perfect culmination of british inspiration and american soul. Vintage 1952 usa magnatone varsity lap steel guitar pickup cover 1953 1954. The ampifier received the model number 115 in 1955.

Results matching fewer words. The traditional collection amplifier with features beyond compare and the legendary pitch bending vibrato. Q s 8 t e a r p t g t 1 o n s o r e d. Magnatone president art duhamell hired consultants most notably paul bigsby to help improve the guitars.

Dickerson in southern california. The lyric name was used for both a steel guitar and an amplifier like several magnatone models. Buy it now 8 75 shipping. Two volume one for each channel and treble and bass tone controls.

Magnatone amplifiers began in the late 1930s as the dickerson musical instrument company founded by delbert j. Magnatone troubadour model 213 2 channel 18 watt 1x12 guitar combo 3 available from 1 325 magnatone m7 custom series 38 watt 1x15 guitar combo with 3 tweeter. Magnatone usa boutique guitar vintage amplifiers all tube with pitch shifting vibrato hand wired hand built in the usa. Production of steel guitars is known to have.

They made steel guitars and amplifiers designed for that instrument.