american concervitorian hawain guitar

Subject: Folklore: american concervitorian hawain guitar
From: pete au
Date: 02 Apr 03 - 06:00 PM

doese anyone know any thing about the history of an amercan concervitorian hawain guitar

Subject: RE: Folklore: american concervitorian hawain guitar
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 02 Apr 03 - 06:40 PM

Not sure what you mean by "American concertvitorian hawain." A history of the Hawaiian style, guitar and tunings is here: Slack key

Subject: RE: Folklore: american concervitorian hawain guitar
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Apr 03 - 06:51 PM

Punkin: Could you check your spelling? It's mainly "Concervitorian" I'm concerned about. I can figure out the rest. Google found no hits on "concervitorian" and only 2 hits on "conservatorian" and those had nothing to do with guitars. "Conservatoria" got lots of hits but those were mostly foreign-language sites. "Conservatorion" got a few hits but they weren't helpful.

Google seems to be the most thorough search engine, but it doesn't have a "sounds like" feature, so spelling is critical.

Subject: RE: american concervitorian hawain guitar
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 02 Apr 03 - 07:57 PM

My good Dutch friend Jon's step-son, Ben Harper, (http://www.benharper.net) first became really noticed with the Innocent Criminals when he began to use a Weissenborn style hollow neck with 7 strings. The Canopus Hawaiian guitars are made from mahogany, and bubinga. You can find them at http://members.aol.com/kyjyasu1/joeindex.htm

I would encourage you to see one of Ben's concerts. Or at least sample some of his tracks.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: american concervitorian hawain guitar
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 02 Apr 03 - 08:06 PM

If your interest is the Hawai'ian steel guitar, Sol Ho'opi'i was one of the best. There are several cds of his music currently available from dealers, but the tapes here are comprehensive of his style. Ho'opi'i

If your interest is in the music of the late Victorian Royal period, then the first link I posted is the one to see. Guitars either were of Spanish type, or the 'ukulele-like instrument of the Portuguese islands.

Subject: RE: american concervitorian hawain guitar
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 02 Apr 03 - 10:40 PM

This might be what you're after: Oscar Schmidt First Hawaiian Conservatory Guitar, from the 1920's. The website appears to be from an outfit in Wales. (Where else would there be a town called Pwllheli?) I wasn't able to get a photo of the instrument to load. Thought it might be a Netscape problem, but I couldn't access the site at all using Explorer. Maybe you'll have better luck.

I don't know anything at all about the guitar...but I'll bet Rick Fielding would. Try sending him a message.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: american concervitorian hawain guitar
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 02 Apr 03 - 10:48 PM

G'day Mark and punkin,

Yes - definitely Wales:

Fretdancer - P.O. Box 55. Pwllheli , Gwynedd LL53 5WF U.K
E-mail [e-mail] tel : (44) (0) 1758 - 614099.

The Guitar looks pretty standard ... dark brown, no spangles, &c. The photograph is a front view, so I can't see what the neck profile is like ... fairly wide neck, but some degree of taper.

You might have to ask "Fretdancer" for the intimate details!

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: american concervitorian hawain guitar
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Apr 03 - 11:06 PM

Oscar Schmidt guitars are made by Washburn International. www.washburn.com

Subject: RE: american concervitorian hawain guitar
From: pete au
Date: 04 Apr 03 - 02:36 AM

this guitar looks like an old martin from the 1800 skinny body
wooden inlay only 5 in the land of ozz i think it was made under contract to washburn