![]() acoustic guitars, notably the Chet Atkins model - a 12 fret nylon strung guitar. Vintage 1880s-1910s Lyon & Healy style American Parlor Guitar. At any rate, after that and a little setup and extra-light 48w-10 strings, it sounded nice as a fingerpicker - like an old small-body Martin 2-17 and with a similar wide but very shallow and v-shaped neck (comfortable!). Martin were making quality guitars, whilst Lyon and Healy were producing. Vintage 1880s-1910s Lyon & Healy style American Parlor Guitar. working through the soundhole with a whittling knife I managed to remove more than half of the excess brace material. In addition the heavy bracing really stifled tone and it had quite a shrill sort of sound. The setup was okay but because the x-bracing favored steel strings the neck had warped a little at the 1-3 frets with the regular 54-12 lights that had been installed. The original bracing had been removed and replaced with somewhat heavy x-bracing, refinished or oversprayed the top, and repaired a couple hairline cracks as well as replacing the nut, bridge, and end-strip. A fellow Vermonter chop-shops old guitars and I had worked on this one for a customer before. Washburn began as a partnership between George Washburn Lyon and Patrick Healy. Our banjos have been around since the 1880s and still. This guitar is exactly the same model as my own 1880s Lyon & Healy "Lakeside" gut-strung guitar, which is the best nylon/classical style instrument I've ever played/owned and remains my "magic" songwriting tool upstairs in the living room. Washburn’s Parlor guitar was one of George. ![]()
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