1928 Stromberg-Voisinet Hawaiian Scene Parlor

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A really cool 1928 Stromberg-Voisinet Hawaiian Scene guitar. It comes with the original Soft Shell Case. What beauty.

This 20th Century guitar hung forever in a guitar shop here in Des Moines and needed a lot of attention. We were happy to provide that for this historic beautiful guitar. It required a complete neck off reset, a new bone nut, the existing bridge rebuilt, (more about that later), and a complete setup. This cool guitar now plays as well as it looks. Beautiful Hawaiian Scene on the top with no body cracks to deal with! What a great guitar.

Here’s some info we found on the internet regarding these cool guitars…

Stromberg-Voisinet was one of numerous companies that built fretted instruments in Chicago in the early part of the 20th century. Like Regal, Harmony and most of their other competitors, Stromberg-Voisinet made relatively inexpensive instruments that were designed to be sold through catalogs. 1920s Stromberg-Voisinet instruments were very well made, given their cheap prices, and they generally had a unique approach to design. Today’s Catch was made sometime in the mid-1920s, at the height of America’s infatuation with all things Hawaiian.

This cool guitar has the original Fretboard, Bakalite Pickguard, and Original Tuners with the Bakalite Tuner buttons. As stated before, the original bridge was completely badly cracked but still with it. So instead of buying a stock replacement, our Tech was able to build us a new one that looks just like the original bridge. Took a lot of talent to do that. Check pics 4-6. We replaced the Bridge pins with correct wood replacements.

The tuners are original and work as they should. I especially like the cool open headstock look. The guitar has a 24 ¼ inch scale neck and the nut measures 1 7/8 inches. The body is 13 ¼ inch wide at the lower bout and 37 inches long. A Concert sized guitar that only weighs 2 lbs 10 ozs... Thats right. This beauty weighs less than 3 lbs..What a lite weight!! I don’t think we have ever had a guitar here that weighed less than 3 lbs!

The guitar plays as nice as looks. Nice low easy playing action now. It’s a pleasure to play and to hear. I was struck as to how loud this little parlor guitar is. Suprising volume that can be dialed down with finger picking to give this guitar both a bold and sweet sound as desired.

The guitar ships in the shown original soft shell case that is as nice as the guitar. All latches, hinges and original leather handle work properly. A really nice case for this beautiful guitar.

Sold as-is no returns as its vintage and used. Thanks for respecting that!

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