![]() ![]() 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. It has had a few repairs over the hears, notably re-glued back braces and a new Rosewood bridge. This Lyon & Healy Washburn Oak – interesting little guitar plays well, and has a warm tone with clear trebles. Mid 1880s Lyon & Healy George Washburn Acoustic Parlor Guitar. It’s relatively heavy and hard to work with in the context of bending sides. An antique Washburn from the mid 1880s (serial is 57818) These old Lyon and Healys rivaled Martin guitars of the same era and are just as good as one. 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. ![]() Maps in this atlas contain names of residents next to the symbols for homes. This Lyon & Healy Washburn Oak parlor guitar, built in Chicago in the 1920s, is an example of the instruments available at that time. Lyon County 1980 Directory Service Company, 1980 Image Quality: High. 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. ![]()
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