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Chris Pile
 Post subject: What guitar is this?
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Spotted this in an old Bing Crosby flick.... What is it? I think it's the great Eddie Lang with Bing Crosby in The Birth of the Blues.


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Not sure about Eddie Lang, but it's surely a cool guitar!

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Well, Eddie Condon played with bandleader Jack Teagarden (the trombonist), but IMDb says Eddie Lang played himself in this flick. One of my sources thinks it might be a custom made Martin based on an OM-18....

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Doesn 't look like Eddie Lang to me. Lang (aka Salvatore Massaro), looks much more Italian, with a larger nose and a smaller chin than the guitarist pictured. There are lots of pic's of Lang on the Internet, usually with a gorgeous L5. This clip has a lot of stills, and a nice guitar solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JYYhYlNIyI
I like the guitar in the picture you posted, though...

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https://www.martinguitar.com/about/visi ... ar-museum/

There are a couple similar on the Martin Guitar Museum web page.

If you want more precise info, you might try emailing Martin Guitars or Gruhn guitars.
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I don't think it is a Martin. The headstock corners are too sharp, the dots on the fingerboard are too large, and there is a dot on the 10th fret instead of the 9th. Also, the thick rosette is not typical Martin. In any case, it would not be an OM, since it has a 12 fret neck. Most OM's had a solid headstock. My guess is that it is Chicago made.

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My guess is that it is Chicago made.


I considered that. Washburn? American Conservatory? Lyon & Healy?

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Joseph Bohmann made some guitars shaped like that, but I've never seen one with a slotted peghead. Of course, as the "world's greatest maker of stringed instruments," Bohmann had a lot of surprises in his instruments. At any rate, I think John's right--it looks like Chicago to me.

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Is there a paisley design on the headstock?


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Is this it?


http://www.earlymartin.com/Martin1840Renaissance.html


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That Martin is a different shape and size, I think.

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90 percent sure that guitar was made by one of the Italian guitar makers in the New York City/Jersey City area in the 1920s

Todd Cambio (Fraulini guitars) makes a very similar model: http://fraulini.com/silvio/
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Man, I think that looks right. Good detective work!

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