Italy!!
http://www.fetishguitars.com/html/itali ... manza.html
Statistics: Posted by Michael Ambrose — Sat May 23, 2009 11:33 pm
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Statistics: Posted by jeff mercer — Mon May 11, 2009 11:29 pm
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Just a heads-up... Sorkin/Multivox is a company the source whose guitars are somewhat shrouded in mystery...
A good chunk of them, especially their OUTSTANDING archtops, were made by United Guitars... but some guitars, i'm finding, were were built in Germany (particularly several I've found bearing the Strad-O-Lin brand name).
Furthermore... there is Sorkin's tie to the Domino brand, a line of the wackiest of the wacky guitars ... google yo'self a picture of a Domino, and compare the pups to the one in the Premier in the auction.
Now, i've owned two Premiers hollowbodies and a german-built Sorkin/Strad-O-Lin solidbody that closely resembled the guitar in the auction... but my solid had the old p90-esque big, bulky single coils that were on the jazzboxes... and i've never seen these with kill switches... and i'd recognize those tuning machines ANYWHERE.
I'd pinpoint this axe as coming from the tail end of Premier's existence, as it limped on towards the 70's... I'd venture to guess that like other struggling houses, Multivox probably first struck up a parts deal before fading into history.
soooo... looks too nice to be a frankie... but I'd hate to sump $1700 on a pair of Kawai pickups.
Statistics: Posted by Michael Ambrose — Mon May 11, 2009 9:29 pm
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Statistics: Posted by 101Volts — Sun May 10, 2009 1:37 pm
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Their asking price looks a bit excessive to me.
Statistics: Posted by VintAxe — Sat May 09, 2009 8:17 pm
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Here's a different model Multivox Premier.Appears to an older version,but the body style is very similar. Also a bit of info about the company.
Edit- Found out the info on the Silvertone site is not quite correct. The Peter Sorkin Music Company didn't manufacture anything.They were a distribution company. Premier was one of the brand names they used for the instruments, amps and other related items they sold. The Multivox company,which was located in New York, did the actual manufacturing of some of the Priemier branded guitars and amps. United Guitars of Jersey City,New Jersey was another manufacturer of Premier branded guitars. Some Premier acoustics were made by Harmony.
Statistics: Posted by Spud1950 — Sat May 09, 2009 8:13 pm
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Any information of this guitar and or the company would be appreciated. I will update the main topic with this post as well.
Statistics: Posted by 101Volts — Sat May 09, 2009 5:31 pm
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It's a great example of what I find so intriguing about a lot of early Japanese guitars..they'd offer copies of USA/European models that were never particularly successful for the original manufacturer ! ( Think Ibanez LP Recording models etc.)
Nice looking axe, though..
Statistics: Posted by jeff mercer — Wed May 06, 2009 5:36 pm
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It looks like someone copied some Rickenbacker, a Fender Jaguar and added the pickup selectors and pots in an odd way. It's kind of attractive though.
Original topic title: Unknown hollow body on ebay
Original topic:
I saw this guitar on ebay and the seller had no idea what it was (No, I'm not the seller) So I thought I'd ask here. All I know about it is that it is a hollow body with a Mosrite style headstock.
What in the world is it?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :middle:us
Statistics: Posted by 101Volts — Wed May 06, 2009 4:55 am
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