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Volu-Tone Lap Steel Electric with Matching Amplifier Guitar , c. 1936

Volu-Tone Lap Steel Electric with Matching Amplifier Guitar, c. 1936, made in Los Angeles, California, crystaline paint finish, wood body, black tolex original chipboard case.

One of the earliest, and certainly one of the strangest of the first commercial electric guitars. The volutone requires the guitar to carry a charge, and was popular in the southwest in the earliest days of electric instruments.

Overall length is 30 in. (76.2 cm.), 7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) width, and 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm.) deep. Scale length is 22 in. (559 mm.). All original, if not currently completely functional. Excellent Condition.

Item # 2826

This item has been sold.

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