Wikimedia Commons

File:Guitars at Smithonian Museum.jpg

Original file ‎(1,499 × 1,997 pixels, file size: 525 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Description
English: Guitars displayed at Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Museum (NMAH)
Date
Source Elvis's Guitars
Author George Martin from South Park, CO., USA
Other versions
  • Guitars at Smithonian Museum.jpg
    Guitars at Smithonian Museum.jpg
  • 1950 Martin 000-18 of Libba Cotten, 2000 PRS Dragon 2000, 1936-39 Slingerland Songster, 1999-00 Quatro by Rafael Aviles Vazquez, 1962 Silvertone (H1385 ?) 12 string of Jesse Fuller - Smithonian Museum (2013-03-16 14.05.43 by Tyfferz Y).jpg
    1950 Martin 000-18 of Libba Cotten, 2000 PRS Dragon 2000, 1936-39 Slingerland Songster, 1999-00 Quatro by Rafael Aviles Vazquez, 1962 Silvertone (H1385 ?) 12 string of Jesse Fuller - Smithonian Museum (2013-03-16 14.05.43 by Tyfferz Y).jpg
References
InfoField
  • Martin Guitar, used by Libba (Elizabeth) Cotten. National Museum of American History, Behring Center (americanhistory.si.edu).
    "​This guitar was made by C.F. Martin Co. of Nazareth, Pennsylvania in 1950. It is a six course (6x1) guitar, Auditorium Orchestra model #000-18, serial #114993, with a natural spruce top, mahogany body, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard and bridge, pearl position dots and white side dots, and nickel-plated tuning machines. / The guitar was owned and used by Libba (Elizabeth) Cotten. ... ",
    "​ ID NUMBER 1988.0425.01 ",
    "​ [Images 1,2, 3, 4, 5]  "
  • Paul Reed Smith "Dragon 2000" Electric Guitar. National Museum of American History, Behring Center (americanhistory.si.edu).
    "​This electric guitar, serial #9 41200, was made by Made by Paul Reed Smith (PRS Guitars) in Annapolis, Maryland in 2000. It is a Dragon 2000 model with a dragon inlay on the guitar body made of 242 pieces of mastodon ivory, rhodonite, agoya, coral, onyx, sugilite, chrysacola, red, green, and pink abalone and paua. This is from a limited production run of 50 guitars. ... ",
    "​ DATE MADE 1999 ",
    "​ ID NUMBER 2000.0074.01 ",
    "​ [Images 1,2,3,4,5,6]  "
  • Slingerland Songster Electric Guitar. National Museum of American History, Behring Center (americanhistory.si.edu).
    "​This electric guitar was made by the Slingerland Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Illinois, around 1936–39. It pre-dates the experimental "log" guitar of Les Paul from 1940 and is possibly the earliest commercially marketed solid body, Spanish neck electric guitar. Slingerland ceased making electric instruments in 1940, changing exclusively to production of percussion instruments. This electric guitar is a Songster Spanish style and serial #114. In a late 1930s Slingerland catalog, this electric guitar, case and amplifier sold for $150.00 ",
    "​ ID NUMBER 1997.0063.01 ",
    "​ [Image(s) 1]  "
  • Vazquez Cuatro. National Museum of American History, Behring Center (americanhistory.si.edu).
    "​This cuatro was made by Rafael Aviles Vazquez in Puerto Rico in 1999-2000. A type of plucked 10-string instrument (5 courses, double-strung), it is now ubiquitous in most groups playing any kind of Puerto Rican music. It is used in the manner of a first guitar: to play melodies and to “floretear” or accompany singing. The instrument is used today in salsa orchestras and plena music groups and is, of course, the king of Puerto Rican country music. ",
    "​ ID NUMBER 2001.0014.02 "
  • Silvertone Electric-Acoustic Guitar, used by Jesse Fuller. National Museum of American History, Behring Center (americanhistory.si.edu).
    "​This electric-acoustic guitar was made for Sears around 1962 by companies like Danelectro and Harmony. Silvertone guitars were popular because of their solid construction and inexpensive pricing. / This guitar was owned and played by Jesse Fuller (1896-1976), a one-man-band folk and blues singer from the San Francisco Bay area who accompanied his guitar-playing with singing, harmonica, percussion, and a foot-operated bass instrument called a fotdella. Fuller played guitar as a child but didn’t become a professional musician until the early 1950s. As a songwriter, Fuller is best known for his songs, “San Francisco Bay Blues” and “Beat It on Down the Line.” / Jesse Fuller purchased this Silvertone guitar in 1962, from a Detroit Sears, after his original Maurer guitar was stolen and he needed another guitar to be able to make his playing engagement that evening. ",
    "​ ID NUMBER 1994.0053.01 ",
    "​ [Image(s) 1]  "
    • Jesse Fuller's 12 string 1385 Silvertone Black Beauty/Espanada Guitar?. Acoustic Guitar Forum (acousticguitarforum.com/forums) (2014-10-26).
      "​donsjohns (2014-10-26): Does anyone know who made the neck on Jesse Fuller's Silvertone 1385 12 String Black Beauty Archtop Hollowbody electric guitar????? or What Brand and Model guitar the Neck came off of??? / Thanks / Don Johnson ",
      "​Cone Head (2014-10-27): Jesse Fuller played a Silvertone made by Harmony. / The 12-string version of the Harmony H-62/Silvertone 1304 [1385] is VERY rare. / The pickups in those guitars were P-13s made by Gibson (when the P-90 rendered them obsolete, they were sold by the boxcar to Harmony in the late 1940s). "
Further reading
InfoField
quote from the description panel
No.401 Songstar electric Spanish guitar
Chicago, Illinois, USA, ca.1936
Slingerland Guitars, maker
This was the first solid-bodied wooden electric Spanish guitar. With "neck-through"  
construction and a sophisticated hum-canceling pickup placing six individual coils  
under the string, this is a rare and remarkably modern guitar built by a company  
famous for its drums. It incorporated details this would be applauded as  
revolutionary some fifteen years later.
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
This image, originally posted to Flickr, was reviewed on 16 December 2009 by the administrator or reviewer Bidgee, who confirmed that it was available on Flickr under the stated license on that date.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current04:56, 16 December 2009Thumbnail for version as of 04:56, 16 December 20091,499 × 1,997 (525 KB)Shoulder-synth (talk | contribs){{Information |Description={{en|1=[http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/electricguitar/theguitars.htm Guitars displayed at Lemelson Center], Smithsonian Museum (NMAH) * [http://invention.smithsonian.o

You cannot overwrite this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Guitars_at_Smithonian_Museum.jpg&oldid=800230561"