Char Guitars » Steel String http://www.charguitars.com Rooted in classic building traditions, Kerry Char crafts a wide variety of beautiful and unusual instruments as well as providing museum quality repair and restoration. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:20:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Favilla Bros. Harpguitar http://www.charguitars.com/2010/08/flavella-harpguitar/ http://www.charguitars.com/2010/08/flavella-harpguitar/#comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:47:43 +0000 Kerry http://www.charguitars.com/?p=296 IMG_2167.JPGIMG_2169.JPG

Most of my exposure to Favilla instruments has been through their ukes, especially their Baratone uke which I think is the best factory made one out there. The Favilla company, in fact, were actively making guitars, ukes, banjos and all sorts of stringed instruments from 1890-1986. There is a nice link to a website from an existing family member that has alot of basic info about the company and family. http://www.jedistar.com/pdf/favilla_bio.pdf

As far as anyone that I’ve talked to this is the only Favilla Harpguitar that any one has ever seen. The story is is that the owner had the Favilla brothers build this for Him and that any time it needed repairs He brought it back to them.

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This Martin O 18 #141739 was gifted to my customer Hiaso Shinagawa  by the late Townes Van Zandt in 1980. Hisao who is also known as, the Japanese Bob Dylan, claims an arsenal of 2,000 songs! The guitar got run over by a vending truck at a Farmers Market he was playing at on December 14 2008.I think this one is going to take a little extra time.  Click here for more photos.

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Tulip Guitar     Do you know what this is? I dont.The neck block is the whole arc of the top of the body and is only 1″ deep.The bracing is ladder and the back and sides are Mahogany. Weird.   For more photos click here.

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J45 1960?  What can I say. For more photos, click here.

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N.B. Curtis Parlor.The lower bout on this parlor is almost 15″ so it is on the larger size for a parlor. Scale length is 25″ and it is ladderbraced. Top is spruce and the back and sides are Mahogany. We reset the neck added a trussrod, refretted it, and made a repro bridge for it. This thing plays and sounds fabulous! For more photos click here.

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