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Postby Greg H. » Thu May 19, 2011 7:49 pm

I just found a guitar while cleaning up my house today, I know it was my mom's when she was younger but I was just wondering if anyone had information about it's make.
It's an acoustic with no name on the headstock but it says Dana inside the sound hole. Model #F4.
I'll post some pictures when I get a minute.

Anyways, it's not worth a lot from the look of it, I'm just curious. Google failed me, but maybe it's local?
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Re: Old acoustic

Postby Greg H. » Thu May 19, 2011 11:46 pm

Sorry for any quality issues, but this is the guitar
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Re: Old acoustic

Postby Alain Benoit » Fri May 20, 2011 1:50 am

I assume that specimen is a nylon string guitar?
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Re: Old acoustic

Postby Jef » Fri May 20, 2011 7:35 am

My Dad used to have a DAnA acoustic guitar. My brother still has it I think. I did a little looking, someone posted an old DAnA catalog here.
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Re: Old acoustic

Postby Mathieu Benoit » Fri May 20, 2011 12:32 pm

Alain Benoit wrote:I assume that specimen is a nylon string guitar?

Doesn't appear to be. Nylon string guitars would normally have much different style tuning pegs.

Clinton knows more about acoustic guitars then most people I know so I'd defer the question to him.
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Re: Old acoustic

Postby Greg H. » Fri May 20, 2011 2:14 pm

Jef wrote:My Dad used to have a DAnA acoustic guitar. My brother still has it I think. I did a little looking, someone posted an old DAnA catalog here.


Gotta have a membership to the site to be able to see it though, costs money. Don't know if I care THAT much hahaha.

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Alain Benoit wrote:I assume that specimen is a nylon string guitar?

Doesn't appear to be. Nylon string guitars would normally have much different style tuning pegs.


Matt's right, it's steel stringed


Also, it was made in Japan, the picture doesn't show it, but I just found it in the bottom right hand corner of the label.
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Re: Old acoustic

Postby dylanger » Fri May 20, 2011 10:23 pm

I've never heard of it but I know that in the 70's there were ton of Japanese companies that were making Martin and Gibson copies, thats how Takemine started. I see a lot of japanese guitars from that decade and some of them are really cool and even sought after because some of them were lawsuit guitars, like the Ibanez Les Paul.
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Re: Old acoustic

Postby clinton » Wed May 25, 2011 4:00 pm

Very cool! You don't see many Dana around anymore. It's a Japanese import that was rebranded for sale in Canada (like the Ibanez guitars that were branded Mann in Canada). I'm not sure who the manufacturer was for them but I assure you it's all laminate. I had/have an old Dana Banjolele that I just loved before I broke it (clumsy bastard I am). String it up, have fun with it.
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Re: Old acoustic

Postby Greg H. » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:38 am

Thanks, Clinton! I have to get some new string pegs still, but every single time I seem to remember, it's too late in the day. After that it'll be all cleaned up and strung. I'll throw an update later on if it'll be considered vintage or just old
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