Dobro in California marketed some budget flat-tops with trapeze tailpieces and 14-fret Spanish necks, using the name Dobro Jr. Dobro’s 1934 line included the Model 37, with a mahogany body bound top and back and along the fretboard, the Model 45, with a spruce top and mahogany back and sides, the Model 60, its scrollwork “carved” in a new pattern with a more prominent letter “D” on the back, and the walnut Model 100. Many players hold that omitting the three holes improved the sound of the Model 27. The true identifying mark of a Model 27 is its lack of the three holes under the strings between the screenholes, an economy suggested by Regal and adopted by Dobro (Regal apparently never liked bothering with the three holes and even on high-end models never beveled the edges, as Dobro did). The body is rosewood and both top and back sport white celluloid binding and tiny. For 19, Guild returned to the system which used a separate serial number prefix for each guitar model, and also the first and last serial number produced for each model in each given year. For the year 1994, ONLY the model prefix and last serial number for each model produced is available. Modern dealers and collectors usually identify a Model 27 as having binding on the top only, but rare early examples had no binding at all and most Regal-made Model 27s were bound top and back. The serial number, 4050, is stamped on the heel block and the paper label. This is the finest Model 37 on the Internet.
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This was the model played on the Grand Ole’ Opry in the post-war years by both Bashful Brother Oswald and Josh Graves.
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