There are no identifying marks on the this instrument, so we are identifying it as a Lyon & Healy Washburn and dating this to the 1920’s based on other guitars known to have been built by them at the time. Cleve West 2004 Epiphone AJ 100 Acoustic Guitar with Gig Bag. Cleveland GuitarGrip hand guitar holders. It has had a few repairs over the hears, notably re-glued back braces and a new Rosewood bridge. Fremont (NW Ohio) Guitar Amp Marshall mg15CD. This Lyon & Healy Washburn Oak – interesting little guitar plays well, and has a warm tone with clear trebles.
It’s relatively heavy and hard to work with in the context of bending sides. Oak is a common material for many purposes, but it is unusual to find it on the back and sides of a guitar. The heavily V shaped neck with slotted peghead is likely Poplar, while the fingerboard is a dyed, hard and tight grained wood like Maple. It features a ladder-braced Spruce top and Oak for the sides and back. This Lyon & Healy Washburn Oak parlor guitar, built in Chicago in the 1920s, is an example of the instruments available at that time. Please see photos for close-ups.įeel free to reach out if you have any additional questions about this guitar.Around the start of the twentieth century, Lyon & Healy were one of the larger musical instrument builders in the USA, with Washburn being one of their brands. However, we want to make sure to communicate all of them to anybody considering this instrument. It is common to see multiple cracks like this on a guitar of this age. Want to be clear about some of the cracks that are present on the guitar: there's a couple in the front, below the bridge, a few different places where the seam is slightly coming apart along the binding, and a couple cracks in the lower and upper part of the back. There has been some work done on it, such as the bridge being re-glued, but really just makes it a much more playable instrument for its age. Interestingly, the bracing inside is ladder-style rather than X-style, yet the sound that it puts out is comparable to vintage parlor-style Martin guitars of that age. Extremely resonant and warm with great bass sound. It is from the late 1800s or early 1900s. Unclear about maker, but possibly an early Lyon and Healy or Bruno. Incredible little vintage parlor guitar with back and sides made of out some interesting wood-could be sycamore or brazilian rosewood.
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