Merlijn writes:
Hello everybody from the Guitarz blog! I love reading your blogs but I want to know something from you. On the photos [above] you can see an old guitar from the brand 'Welson'. It was a famous guitar brand during the 50s and 60s. This guitar belonged to my father. I'd like to get more info about it. Could you help me?
Sincerely, Merlijn.Hi Merlijn, whilst I can't give you much specific information about your father's old Welson guitar, I can tell you that the Welson brand name belonged to a Castelfidardo-based (i.e. Italian) accordion making company founded by Orlando Quagliardi in 1921. Welson guitars were distibuted in Germany as Dynacord and in the USA under the Wurlitzer and Orpheum brands.
For more information see the always fascinating Fetish Guitars website.
G L Wilson
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Sure as hell looks a lot like my old Welson, which I bought 2nd hand in 1969 in the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands. It was at a shop called De Gulden Snaar. Sold it to a classmate about 2 years later. The model, the color and especially the missing tremelo arm, but maybe 60s Welsons of this type were prone to losing the whammy bar?
ReplyDeleteSure as hell looks a lot like my old Welson, which I bought 2nd hand in 1969 in the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands. It was at a shop called De Gulden Snaar. Sold it to a classmate about 2 years later. The model, the color and especially the missing tremelo arm, but maybe 60s Welsons of this type were prone to losing the whammy bar?
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