This guitar is a rare example of that later production, and boasts a solid carved bookmatched spruce top, an adjustable trussrod, and a fast, contemporary neck profile. Vega introduced its first archtops in 1933, but didn't produce its first cutaway until 1949. To one guitar, in fact: that pretty one to your right. Add the graceful rounded Venetian cutaway to your wish list, and your options narrow fast. Notes: If you've looked for a vintage carved top cutaway with a 16" body, you know how hard they are to find. Hardware: Original hardware includes nickel trapeze tailpiece,adjustable deco-style rosewood bridge, open-back nickel tuners recent bound5-ply tortoise pickguard with Kent Armstrong adjustable floating Alnicosingle coil pickup with volume control, and 1/4 jack mounted under guard. Materials: Quartersawn bookmatched solid carved spruce soundboard arched flame maple back and sides solid Honduras mahogany neck Brazilian rosewood fingerboard with mother of pearl inlay bound fingerboard triple-bound top Please be specificon which instrument(s) you're looking for, and we'll be happy to contactyou as soon as they become available.īody size at lower bout: 16" Scale length: 25" Nut Width: 1 11/16"įinish: Original sunburst finish, nitrocellulose type To be notified of examples of thismodel or similar instruments in the future, please contact. Photos and descriptions of Previously Sold instruments may be found here. If this instrumentdoes not appear on the Instrumentspageit has been sold, and is no longer available. Status: Pricing and hold status for all instruments currently availableis shown on our Instruments page here. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.Home / Instruments/ Accessories / Ordering / Tips America's instrument: The banjo in the nineteenth century. Contribution to the art of music in America by the music industries of Boston 1640- 1936. References Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vega Instrument Company. However, producing handcrafted professional horns without keeping an eye to increasing demand for student instruments, and with aging artisans retiring, the company dropped horn production to concentrate on stringed instruments. Popular with jazz artists as well as later big bands and solo artists such as Miles Davis, who performed on the Vega Power Model before he endorsed the Martin Committee, they enjoyed a comfortable niche in the professional market.
Vega trumpets and cornets were on par with the highest quality brass horns of their time.
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