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The VintAxe Guitar Forum A Place for Vintage Guitar Enthusiasts to Pursue their Passion 2012-04-18T21:46:51-06:00 http://www.vintaxe.com/phpBB3/feed.php?f=29&t=964 2012-04-18T21:46:51-06:00 2012-04-18T21:46:51-06:00 http://www.vintaxe.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=964&p=12956#p12956 <![CDATA["First National Institute Of Allied Arts" student]]>
My band's album is FINALLY coming out... and here's the cover, featuring my trusty First National!!

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I didn't actually use it on the record, but you can hear it on our demo HERE...

http://lestroischaud.bandcamp.com/track ... ack-to-you

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Here's one of their pieces of sheet music.





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2010-01-20T11:24:50-06:00 2010-01-20T11:24:50-06:00 http://www.vintaxe.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=964&p=8062#p8062 <![CDATA["First National Institute Of Allied Arts" student]]> I looked at an identical First National guitar yesterday that is advertised for sale on Craigslist in Petaluma, CA. The guitar, case, and original accessories are in "as-new" condition. It is a small, inexpensive, student instrument designed to be played as an acoustic lap steel (Hawaiian) guitar. That's why the bridge is so high. There is a pressed steel extender mounted on the nut. The action is so high it would be impossible to fret the strings. The accessories include a set of finger picks and a flat steel bar that is knurled on 2 sides to provide a gripping surface. Perhaps a previous owner of your guitar removed the nut extender to make it (marginally) playable as a standard guitar. Of course, as you found, without lowering the bridge the action would still be too high. I suspect that the practice of playing guitar with a bar or bottle neck in open tunings in Hawaii and the South was engendered by otherwise unplayable guitars with very warped necks. They were "useless cast-offs" that some creative folks figured out how modify and play in a new way.

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No, not mine... haha... Not yet at least... I didn't plan on it, but mine actually might end up on Ebay shortly as well... ah, the life of a working musician...

(PS... if anyone's interested, i've installed a Piezo with a strap-button insert and cut a new tortoise pickguard based off the original... the neck has a bow and there's no truss adjustment... hell, with the depth of the neck, I'm pretty sure there's no truss rod at all hahaha... but its a MEAN player...)

Hm... I wonder if that number is a date-stamp, not a serial? EXACT same as mine!... 1036... October 1936? 10th week of 1936?

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2008-09-04T03:01:22-06:00 2008-09-04T03:01:22-06:00 http://www.vintaxe.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=964&p=3871#p3871 <![CDATA["First National Institute Of Allied Arts" student]]> Statistics: Posted by jeff mercer — Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:01 am


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2008-09-03T22:13:03-06:00 2008-09-03T22:13:03-06:00 http://www.vintaxe.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=964&p=3870#p3870 <![CDATA["First National Institute Of Allied Arts" student]]> I have a few of those "hard" cases too, evidently standard in the 50s and early 60s in Japan, interesting in their own right and better than the soft cases I see here but when it comes time to ship some guitars back home when we return, I`ll be using thick guitar shipping boxes and place the cases inside those with lots of bubble wrap.
I have several old Yamaha Dynamic nylons too, from the 50s and 60s, each one is made of all solid flame maple wood, solid spruce tops and I know maple has a reputation for being bright but honestly, the old Dynamics are deep voiced. I own a few modern acoustics too, Larrivees, a Lakewood couple of Morris acoustics among others but when I reach for an acoustic, it`s always the old nylons I go for now...everybody seems to be throwing themselves at the Yamaha red labels nowadays, maybe because the Dynamics are unknown, not sure , but I can`t seem to stop buying them, see red labels all the time but have yet to play one that sounds better than any of my Dynamics...and I really like the fat necks...no trussrods, no problems and no resets envisioned anytime soon.
If I come across one like yours pictured above it`ll surely be added to the collection, just love those oldies.

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So over vacation I've FINALLY gotten a chance to install my piezo and end-pin insert.... after sitting on the shelf for six months haha!!

mmm mmm mmm...

there really is something hot about playing a nearly-80-year-old guitar... and the piezo does exactly what I thought it would. I'd put this up against a Martin any day of the week... in tone, at least... haha... I don't think this thing was built for either comfort OR speed!

Still...

I've been messing around with some old Son House and Leadbelly tunes... I feel like I should be downing some shots of corn-liquor right now haha!

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The sound is ALMOST like a Martin 018, but more round, more bottomy.

Seriously... I think this is the guitar that'll get me back in acoustics... the feel is big and blocky, the sound is round and fat... LOVE it.

I've got a piezo element that I'm going to put under the bridge, swap the strap button for a strap button insert...

...maybe. hahaha...

...let me tell you about the beauty of running a Shure 520 into Kay 703 tube combo... I usually use it for playing the harp... but man, putting it right up to the sound hole and blasting it out of there... DAMN!

I'm contemplating finding another one of these, getting an extension nut, and setting it up for slide.

LOVE IT

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How does it sound, Michael?

Bob

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I've been told these were made in Germany... but I'd love to know more about the company...

It DID come with this awesome purple-lined not-so-hardshell case... s thats cool... (Its strange... its harder than those junk chipboard cases... but its thinner than a wooden shell case... even the latches on it are heavier-duty!)

Also... there's a rubber stamp inside on the top bracing reading "1036"... Serial? Date stamp?

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Any ideas??

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