Not long after the design was changed to a more conventionally guitar shaped body. The smaller dimensions of these uniquely pear-shaped 4-string bodies made assembly a difficult procedure around 5-600 serial numbers in, the tenor and plectrum instruments were redesigned to use a single-cone resonator. By 1928 National was already successful enough to expand the line to include mandolins, tenor and plectrum guitars and ukuleles all using the same triple-resonator system. The National String Instrument Corporation's first products, released in 1927, were German silver bodied Tricone Spanish and Hawaiian 6-string guitars. This is a nice example of a fairly rare and somewhat forgotten National instrument, an original Style 1 Tricone Tenor guitar. National Style 1 Tricone Model Resophonic Tenor Guitar (1928), made in Los Angeles, California, serial # 184, nickel plated finish, German silver body, mahogany neck, Macassar ebony fingerboard, black gig bag case.
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