$699.00
Recording King By Regal Archtop Electric
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For sale one Recording King by Regal archtop electric, all original, in good condition. Pickup and volume and tone controls work. Beautiful tone. V neck. Mother of Pearl inlay on fingerboard. Brazilian rosewood peghead overlay. Brazilian rosewood fingerboard. Trapeze tailpiece. The guitar comes with hardshell case shown. From the pickup design described below, the guitar appears to have been built prior to 1940, and perhaps as early as 1936.
Wikipedia states: The Charlie Christian pickup consists of a coil of copper wire wound
around a black plastic bobbin. The coil has a rectangular hole in its
center, and the coil and bobbin fit around a chrome-plated steel blade
polepiece. Attached at right angles to the bottom of the polepiece are a
pair of five-inch-long (13 cm) steel bar magnets, which remain out of
sight inside the instrument. These magnets are secured to the top of the
ES-150 by the three bolts visible on the guitar's top. The entire
assembly is about six inches (15 cm) long, and weighs nearly two pounds
(900 g).
There were three different varieties of Charlie Christian pickup
produced by Gibson, and all three are distinguished by the polepiece:
plain blade polepiece. The coil was wound to about 2.4 k? resistance
using AWG 38 enameled wire.
onward, and featured a polepiece that had a notch cut out below the
second (B) string. This modification was made to lower the volume of the
B string, which sounded significantly louder than the other strings. At
this time the coil was wound with a finer wire (AWG 42) resulting in
more turns and an approximately 5.2 k? resistance, which gave the pickup
a higher output.
which was available beginning in 1939. The blade on this pickup had
five notches, each located between the strings. This pickup also had a
more compact internal design. It featured a cobalt steel slug that was
small enough to sit directly under the pickup.
The sound this pickup produced is clear—thanks to the narrow
string-sensing blade—and powerful because of the relatively high
resistance of the coil. Uneven magnetic flux within the steel magnets
could cause some distortion in the signal. Electromagnetic hum was a big
problem with these pickups because of their large surface area and
utter lack of shielding.
After guitar production resumed following World War II, the introduction of ceramic and alnico
magnets made it possible to build a smaller, lighter guitar pickup, but
continued demand among jazz guitarists for the then-legendary Charlie
Christian pickup led to it being fitted on custom order guitars
throughout the 1940s, '50s and '60s.[citation needed]
The first production model to feature the pickup since 1942 was the
1978 Gibson ES-175CC, 489 units of which were shipped with "recreated"
Charlie Christian pickups. The Gibson Custom and Historic Department
began offering Super 400 model guitars with the Charlie Christian pickup
in 2000.
In 2007 the Gibson Custom Shop released an "Inspired By" guitar based on John Lennon's modified Les Paul Junior that featured a Charlie Christian pickup in the neck position.[1]
A number of independent guitar pickup manufacturers offer recreations of the Charlie Christian pickup. (Wikipedia entry on Charlie Christian Pickups)
Vintage Recording King guitars were built from 1929 to 1943 and were the house brand of Montgomery Ward. Recording King guitars were built by Made by Gretsch, Kay, Regal and Gibson. Source: Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars]
The Regal Musical Instrument Company, established 1908 in Chicago, produced thousands of student-grade and high-quality custom instruments. Musicians who wanted something really stylish had instruments built by the Regal custom shop. Regal was one of the world's largest instrument manufacturers during the 1930s through the 1950s. http://www.themomi.org/museum/manufacturers.html
One Regal guitar aficionado said "Call me an old softie, but I find these simple, inexpensive yet fine-sounding Regal instruments irresistible. Suprisingly, some players and collectors are unfamiliar with this Chicago-based company -- though Regal probably made more instruments in its history than any other manufacturer. From 1908 to 1954 it produced its own prolific line of stringed instruments, plus untold numbers built for other companies...." http://home.earthlink.net/~minermusic/group1.htm
Many bluesmen started out on Regal resonator guitars.... Emil Wulschner was a retailer and wholesaler in Indianapolis, Indiana during the 1880s. In the early 1890s he added his stepson to the company, and changed the name to "Wulschner and Son". They opened a factory around 1896 to build guitars and mandolins under three different trademarks: Regal, University, and 20th Century. Though Wulschner passed away in 1900, the factory continued on through 1902 or 1903 under control of a larger corporation. The business end of the company let it go when the economy faltered during those final years. This is the end of the original Regal trademarked instruments.
In 1904 Lyon & Healy (WASHBURN) purchased the rights to the Regal trademark, thousands of completed and works in progress instruments, and the company stockpile of raw materials. A new Regal company debuted in Chicago, Illinois in 1908 (it is not certain what happened during those four years) and it is supposed that they were tied to Lyon & Healy. The new company marketed ukuleles and tenor guitars, but not 6-string guitars.
However, experts have agreed that Regal built guitar models for other labels (Bruno, Weyman, Stahl, and Lyon & Healy) during the 1910-1920 era. Regal eventually announced that their six string models would be distributed through a number of wholesalers.
In 1930, the Tonk Bros. Company acquired the rights to the Washburn trademark when the then-current holder (J. R. Stewart Co.) went bankrupt. Regal bought the rights to the Stewart and LeDomino names from Tonk Bros., and was making fretted instruments for all three trademarks. Also in the early 1930s, Regal had licensed the use of Dobro resonators in a series of guitars. In 1934 they acquired the rights to manufacture Dobro brand instruments when National-Dobro moved to Chicago from California. Regal then announced that they would be joining the name brand guitar producers that sold direct to dealers in 1938. Regal was, in effect, another producer of "house brand" guitars prior to World War II.
It has been estimated by one source that Regal-built Dobros stopped in 1940, and were not built from then on. During World War II, guitar production lines were converted to the war effort. After the war, the Regal Musical Instrument company´s production was not as great as the pre- war production amounts. In 1954 the trademark and company fixtures were sold to Harmony. Harmony and Kay, were the other major producers of House Brand instruments. Regal guitars were licensed to Fender in the late 1950s, and some of the Harmony built "Regals" were rebranded with the Fender logo. This agreement continued up until the mid 1960s, when Fender introduced their own flat-top guitars.
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