Sound Sample Prison art Bottleneck Blues Guitar SOLD

SOLD! Thank you to the winning bidder. Vintage Dobro Parlor Guitar Prison Art Bottleneck Blues I purchased this guitar from the "Memphis Music Hall of Fame" Museum in Memphis Tennessee. It includes a signed "Certificate of Authenticity" from the Museum Director in 2003 that reads: AUTHENTIC "Dobro Reproduction Metal Guitar" Created by a Joliet Prison Inmate Also includes a press release letter documenting the closing of the museum in 2001. Although this guitar is listed as a Dobro, it contains no resonator. It has a round neck and is set up to be played like a standard guitar. Great for Bottleneck Slide style guitar 36 1/2 inches long 13 inch lower bout 9 inch upper bout 3/8 inch string height at 12th fret open geared tuners open head stock neck attached at 12th fret heavy steel constructed body steel bolt for bridge National style tailpiece 1950? Kent pickup with jack in lower bout (recently installed) button strap endpin No case If only this guitar could talk. Can you imagine the story it might tell! I am assuming the guitar was made in the prison metal shop. The neck appears to be consistent with the manufactured styles made in the 1930s. The body's parlor shape and design also seems to be from this period. It is possible that the original wooden body got destroyed, and was used as a pattern to create this guitar in steel. It may be that the builder made the guitar to resemble the steel bodied Dobro guitars that were popular during the 1930s.

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