In praise of Roger Rossmeisl

trancedental · Post by **trancedental** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:16 am

I've read reports that Roger designed the Fender 12 string "hockey head" & the semis Coranado series?

A friend of mine has a 67-68 sunburst Coranado 12 string with the hockey stick head. Nice guitar but no sustain due to the bolt on neck......!

rkbsound · Post by **rkbsound** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:39 am

Didn't the Kinks use one?

berth · Post by **berth** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 8:57 am

I found http://jazzgitarren.k-server.org/roger.html a good read/view with regards to Rossmeisl. Nice pictures of the "Roger" guitars I.M.H.O..

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:00 am

Doubt that the hockey head was his design. It has so little character...

Ray Davies used a Fender acoustic on many of their late '60s and early '70s videos. Whether the Kinks ever recorded with one is open for debate.

ken_j · Post by **ken_j** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:18 am

Thanks for that link Bert. Very interesting.

brian_l · Post by **brian_l** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:14 pm

Just think of all of the great music that was made on the instruments Rossmeisl designed. In my opinion, he deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Leo Fender, Ted McCarty and Les Paul. Hopefully, one day that will happen.