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Brand | |
Industry | Consumer electronics |
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Area served | North America |
Parent | Montgomery Ward |
DATING GUITARS AND MANDOLINS BY REFERENCE OF SERIAL NUMBERS. Serial numbers can be useful in determining the year of manufacture of a guitar or amp. But due to incomplete registrations and illogical serial numbers, its history is often unclear. With the help of the serial number decoder, tables and instructions are the year and location. General: Airline Guitar serial numbers, harmony guitars, kennedy assasination. Expert: Bill Ruxton - 5/1. I've been playing guitars since 6. I've built them, repaired and have even painted a few. The Kay Guitar Company Web Site. My kay acoustic guitar L1834 serial number. Posted by Nick k on Tue.
Jack White (The White Stripes) playing red Montgomery Ward Airline
Airline was a store brand of consumer electronics and musical instruments originally marketed and sold by American retailer Montgomery Ward via their catalog and retail stores. Products included radios, televisions, record players, guitars and amplifiers. In the early 2000s, Eastwood Guitars acquired the rights to use the 'Airline' brand-name.
Musical equipment[edit]
1962 Airline Town and Country (refinished)
The Airline brand was used by Montgomery Ward on a range of electric and acoustic guitars from 1958-68. These were made in Chicago, Illinois, by the Valco Manufacturing Co., Kay Musical Instrument Company, and Harmony Company.[1] Airline-branded amplifiers were manufactured by Valco and Danelectro.
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Valco Airline guitars have been played by a wide array of bands and artists, including: Jack White,[2]J. B. Hutto, David Bowie, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Calexico, and Wooden Shjips.
Eastwood Guitars reissue[edit]
After Eastwood Guitars purchased rights to the 'Airline' trade name in the early 2000s, they reissued the early 1960s 'JB Hutto' Airline shape as the 'Airline DLX.' The new version set aside the defining hollow fiberglass body of the Valco-made original[3] in favor of the simpler and less-costly chambered mahogany body, giving it a more traditional electric guitar feel and tone, rather than the unique playing feel and response of the original.[4][5]
Eastwood Guitars later released the 'Airline '59 Custom' in two- and three-pickup models in December 2008, which come with striped pickguards and rubber-bound bodies, in the spirit of the originals.
See also[edit]
![Airline Acoustic Guitar Serial Numbers Airline Acoustic Guitar Serial Numbers](/uploads/1/1/7/7/117755495/484650349.jpg)
- Valco
- National String Instrument Corporation — origin of Valco, via National Dobro Corporation
References[edit]
Airline Acoustic Guitars History
- ^Electric Guitars: the Illustrated Encyclopedia Edited by Tony Bacon. San Diego: Thunder Bay, 2000. Pp. 18 & 242.
- ^Robinson, Mike (April 14, 2014). MyRareGuitars.com. Retrieved October 7, 2014
- ^Electric Guitars: the Illustrated Encyclopedia Edited by Tony Bacon. San Diego: Thunder Bay, 2000. Pp. 18 & 243.
- ^'White Heat: the White Stripes' 21st Century Blues' by Darrin Fox. Guitar Player Magazine, edited by Michael Molenda, June 2003, Pp.72.
- ^'The House That Jack Built' by Christopher Scapelliti. Guitar World Magazine, edited by Brad Tolinski, May 2004, Pp.150.
External links[edit]
Airline Acoustic Guitar Serial Numbers Lookup
Media related to Airline Guitars at Wikimedia Commons
- 'Eastwood Guitars'. — home of reissued Airline guitars.
- 'Guitar Kits USA'. — home of Res-O-Glas guitar kits.
Vintage Airline Acoustic Guitar
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