Blackwater River Guitars
SOLD - Jumbo made from Gordon Laughead Piano parts
Parts from a 1949 Gordon Laughhead spinet piano (serial #5321, frame casting: F 30 48) were recycled into this Jumbo guitar.
Here are some of the features of this guitar:
- Soundboard – spruce from the piano soundboard
- Back and sides - maple from the piano case
- Neck - maple from the piano case
- Fretboard – East Indian Rosewood
- 25” scale length
- 1-3/4” nut width
- 2-1/8 string spacing at saddle
- Binding – East Indian Rosewood
- Herringbone purfling on soundboard
- Side soundport
- Sloped Florentine cutaway
- Cantilevered fretboard extension
- Rosette from various pieces of the piano case
- K&K Pure Mini pickup
- Hardshell case
Southwest Virginia Songwriters Association (SVSA)
This Jumbo is featured on the home page of the website.
About Gordon Laughead Pianos
Text below from: http://www.bluebookofpianos.com/agesl.htm#LAUGHEAD
LAUGHEAD, GORDON, COMPANY.
Established 1942. Factory was located in Grand Haven, Michigan. Gordon Laughead Piano Co. were manufacturers of beautiful vertical pianos produced under the personal direction of the founder of the company, .Gordon Laughead.
He was a leader in the piano industry for forty years, is the son of the late Edward Rankin Laughead, a practical piano builder and tuner. This fine firm has kept abreast of the demand for small 88-note vertical pianos of the highest quality. They build a complete line of Spineta Consoles and School Pianos ~ receiving wide acceptance. An engineering staff equal to the best, is headed by Joseph Klepac, a graduate of the Trade School for Piano Builders, Berlin, Germany.
Mr. Kiepac is recognized on two continents as a respected and outstanding piano authority and acoustical engineer. Mr. Klepac's latest scale with the much advertised "Miracle Bridge" has received great praise throughout the nation, including a fine compliment from Dean Sternberg, Baylor University, Waco Texas, America's largest Baptist University. Mr. Klepac's famed acoustic laboratory is also in Grand Haven.
Gordon Laughead Spinets, Consoles and School pianos are actually custom built. Thirteen bearings or measurements are made for each piano in fitting the bridge to the cast iron plate. Craftsmen with years of practical experience now combine their efforts to create an outstanding vertical piano of superb, high quality, acoustically perfect and attractively designed. The finest materials obtainable are furnished by the world's leading supply houses. The firm's trademark, "Gordon Laughead Piano-fortes" is cast in the plate of each instrument.
1948 - 4100 1952 - 7500 1955 - 9500 1959 - 13800
1949 - 5000 1953 - 8200 1956 - 10100 1960 - 15000
1950 - 5900 1954 - 8900 1957 - 10960 1964 - 22130