Magnatone Varsity Lap Steel Guitar

Very american very powerful and extremely versatile.

Magnatone varsity lap steel guitar.

In the forties gaston fator guitar studios in los angeles bought the business from dickerson. The traditional collection amplifier with features beyond compare and the legendary pitch bending vibrato. Magnatone amplifiers began in the late 1930s as the dickerson musical instrument company founded by delbert j. Production of steel guitars is known to have.

Vintage 1952 usa magnatone varsity lap steel guitar cavity cover 1953 1954. Buy it now 8 75 shipping. Q s 8 t e a r p t g t 1 o n s o r e d. 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. There were four controls. Two volume one for each channel and treble and bass tone controls. They made steel guitars and amplifiers designed for that instrument.

Magnatone president art duhamell hired consultants most notably paul bigsby to help improve the guitars. Dickerson in southern california. The ampifier received the model number 115 in 1955. 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.

The lady below is a totally cool lapsteel guitar from the golden age of high strings and steel bars. Results matching fewer words. 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. This was a six tube amp with two 6v6s delivering 18 watts to a 12 speaker.

The lyric name was used for both a steel guitar and an amplifier like several magnatone models.