varitone resonator guitar

Subject: varitone resonator guitar
From: GUEST,mark smith
Date: 05 Mar 04 - 06:10 PM

Anyone know the value of a 1938 varitone resonator guitar?

Subject: RE: varitone resonator guitar
From: GUEST,Tom Dowling
Date: 05 Mar 04 - 11:57 PM

I suspect my brother could provide some useful information & he has an interesting website:   You can say hello and make inquiry @:

Eddowling.com

I believe you will find it a worthwhile visit.

Tom Dowling

Subject: RE: varitone resonator guitar
From: Mark Clark
Date: 06 Mar 04 - 12:13 AM

Not to put too fine a point on it, Tom, but your brother can't even take the 30 seconds he would need to learn how Béla Fleck spells his name.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: varitone resonator guitar
From: GUEST,Pedant
Date: 06 Mar 04 - 09:51 PM

It didn't look to me like it was a spelling site, Mark.

Lots of other words were spelt correctly, though, I noticed. Like 'flawlessly', 'paradigm', 'acoustic', and the like.

But who wants advice from a guy that can't spell Béla Fleck?

Not you, obviously...

Subject: RE: varitone resonator guitar
From: Mark Clark
Date: 06 Mar 04 - 10:52 PM

Actually, I'm not a spelling pedant and I really wasn't trying to criticize spelling on the site. It just that he seemed to use Fleck's name in a promotional paragraph

… These instruments are different - many leading artists of their time push the envelope & pull the public into eventually accepting leading edge improvements such as Steel Strings!, Resophonic Guitars, Electric Guitars, Bayla Flecs Electric 5 String, etc... LIFE IS NOT STATIC & I have chosen to channel my 35 years of Engineering, Guitar playing & Building into INSTRUMENTS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM.

and I thought if he was going to use the name to help transmit an idea about his innovative product, he should at least be familiar enough with Béla Fleck and his music to know the name is spelled.

      - Mark