Teisco, Guyatone, Maestro, etc...

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A couple of days ago I posted about  a 1957 Ibanez Hi-Tone guitar, about which I knew almost nothing. I inquired since, with a little help from our readers, and though I don't know much more about the Ibanez (but that the model should be a EG-1580), I found many guitars that are very similar (with different headstocks, pickguards, control plates, bridges, stoptails, cutaways, one or two pickups, in bridge or neck position, different woods, etc...)  - if not identical - under various brands: on top is a Teisco, on the right is a Guyatone LG 50 H, down are a Maestro LG 50 and a Guyatone LG 40. 

There were also Star and Antoria models, and I also found out that there's been a vintage Japanese Hi-Tone brand... So this is another  complex cross-branding story for a cool guitar!

And let me wish you all a happy new year for 2013! 

Bertram D

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21-string Maestro Harp Guitar

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Here's something that might be of interest to anyone who's ever wanted to delve into the world of harp guitars, or instruments with sympathetic and/or plucked strings allowing potential for a whole bunch of unusual tunings. This Maestro Harp Guitar with six sub-bass strings and nine additional treble strings is currently listed on eBay with a Buy It Now price of $550. (You're unlikely to find a harp guitar cheaper).

No doubt it's made in China, Indonesia or Vietnam, but hopefully it's not as disastrous an instrument as some of the incompetently built and largely unplayable oddities produced under the Tennessee brandname.

G L Wilson

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It's so S-s-s-silly... The Flying S?

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We all know the Flying V. A few days ago we looked at a rather vulgar Jackson doubleneck that I dubbed the Flying W. Takamine had the Flying A (actually an acoustic take on the V design - they weren't allowed to call it a V, and viewed from the other direction it could be considered an A). Rick Nielsen, I believe, has a Flying Z, and The Tubes had a Flying Q (albeit a stage prop)...

And here we have this Maestro S-shaped guitar. Suitable for people with names like Sid, Shirley, Simon, Sylvester, Sarah, Sally, etc... Oh - there's a S at the headstock too (with machine heads seemingly positioned at random), so perhaps it's more suitable for people with the initials SS... which has sinister overtones.

Or maybe it's more suited to an episode of Sesame Street.

G L Wilson

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