1936 National Trojan - Guitar Story (#17) & Sounds - Vintage Resonator Guitar History

This cool old National Trojan found us through Facebook.
Owned by Harry in Glasgow since the 1960s it was sold by his step daughter Shelly in June 2023.
A great guitar rebuilt by Steve Evans of Beltona Instruments.
SN: B1066
Update:
Shelley said he is 91 at the time of filming and bot in a home. Just struggling physically. He can’t remember exactly how the guitar came along.
Apologies for misremembering these details.
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Thanks for looking!

[@shelleyshaw-daly2233]

Thank you for this lovely tribute. The guitar turned out well after its rejuvenation. Sounds fabulous in your skilled hands. I hope it will be happy in its new home xx

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Thanks. It’s an incredible instrument. Dialled in by a world leader in these things. Couldn’t justify owning two of the same model otherwise it’d have stayed. Love it. Colin does too. He shared a pic of him in bed with it the night he got it!!

[@BadTemperJoe]

Great story! Amazing sound!

[@TheWashboardResonators]

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[@tomo.3678]

Hey Martyn. Thanks so much for the great demo. You have a very impressive collection of NATIONALs and are doing a tremendous job keeping THE BLUES alive! 😎✌️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻☘️🍀

[@TheWashboardResonators]

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[@nationalduo4945]

Great Video Martyn 😎

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Thanks!! 🎯🎼🎯

[@andyt5559]

FAB STORY! Lovely guitar! OH, YOU STARTED PLAYING SLIDE,AS I WAS WRITING, IT SOUNDS AMAZING!!!

[@TheWashboardResonators]

🎯🎼🎯 Thanks!! 🎯🎼🎯

[@petterpettersson4581]

👍👍👍👍👍thank you!

[@TheWashboardResonators]

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[@petterpettersson4581]

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[@MrDotneck]

Great guitar with a cool story behind it - thanks for sharing. Funny that you played a short segment of "Guitar Rag" at the end because Nov.2nd marked the 100th anniversary of Sylvester Weaver recording this tune, which is also the 100th anniversary of a black blues guitarist to be recorded for the first time and the first recording of bottleneck slide guitar as well. 🙂

[@TheWashboardResonators]

That’s true. Think it’s time to do a video on that centenary.

[@stumblecol]

Another great video, he is a lucky man, the guy who is going to end up with that beauty

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Very! It’s a beaut.

[@BillAltman]

Dude that is an amazing instrument!you always do them justice! (Lofi Appalachia here)

[@TheWashboardResonators]

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[@anthonybrown2143]

Sounds brilliant will come and see you at a gig sometime thanks Tony

[@TheWashboardResonators]

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[@richmiller8381]

Beautiful guitar

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Oh yeahhhh!!

[@justinpaquette224]

I recently started using metal finger picks and I'm killing wound g strings super fast, like in a couple days if I play a bunch of hours finger style. Is there a way around this? Or is it just how it goes and I should just buy a ton of single g's? I'm currently using Martin 80/20 12-54 strings and brass national finger picks

[@TheWashboardResonators]

I use a plastic thumbpick and metal fingerpicks. Can get about 20-25 gigs out of a full set of strings on the guitar before the G gets ground flat or the frets ‘cut’ the string windings and kill the strings. Not sure beyond this what you’re doing to kill them so quick. I do turn my finger picks around a little so they make perpendicular contact with the string.

[@mudball47]

You start talking in a good loud voice, but by the end of the sentence you can't be heard.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Dayum.