3/18/2024 0 Comments National duolian guitar valueI think he has actually confused this guitar with a National Aragon. There are some interesting things about John Dopyera’s comments. It had been made that way to get the scale right.” The bodies joined at the 13th fret, because the opening for the resonator was lower. I guess it was Regal’s mistake, so after National (later called Valco Corp.) stopped making the model, they sent 3 of the bodies to me. The opening was made wrong to fit the Dobro resonator. made some also, to suit the Dobro system. So, they possibly did not sell to their exceptions. It sold for $175, but somehow, at the time, it did not sell well, as the electric guitar took over and $175 was too high a price for most guitars. for my brother Louis, for a National one-resonator job. “The body bulged (arched) on the back and also on the top. This is an unusual Dobro assembled from parts by John Dopyera in his Grants Pass, Oregon shop in the late 1940s. This quote from JD, that accompanied a photo of a similar guitar, in Bev King’s “Dobroist Scrapbook”, published in 1991.
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