This is an excellent player's National guitar, built from a relatively clean original body and fitted with a more modern replica neck. (7.9 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. ![]() (36.2 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 3 1/8 in. This is a heavily restored example that sounds great and is an excellent playing instrument. While they are generally considered as the perfect Delta-style blues instrument, the Duolian is just a great-sounding guitar for blues and many styles beyond. The model was popular with period blues and hillbilly musicians, offering an unbeatable combination of value and volume. They were sold in fairly large numbers, and may well have enabled the company to survive the hard times of the early 1930s. The $32.50 Duolians was the least expensive resonator National guitar offered in the 1930's, built with a thin-gauge steel body and minimal appointments. ![]() National Duolian Model Resophonic Guitar (1931), made in Los Angeles, serial # C-1551, grey/green crinkle enamel finish, steel body, mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard, brown hard shell case.
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