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  •  Model
     B
  •  Strings
     4
  •  Special
     Tenor
  •  Finish
     Black
  •  Manufacturing Date
     1939-00
  •  Serial #
     C2122
  •  Registration Date
     Mar 28 2023
  •  Country
     USA
  •  State/Province
     New York
  •  Lefty
     No
  •  Refinished
     No
  •  Collected Item
     Yes
  •  Registered User
     Yes
  •  Comments
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    Rickenbacker Electro Spanish Model B Tenor Model Solid Body Electric Guitar (1939), made in Los Angeles, California, serial # C2122, polished Bakelite finish, black bakelite body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, original black hard shell case. Here is an exceptionally rare and historically interesting American guitar, a most unusual variation of the first commercially important electric Spanish guitar. This is the four-string TENOR version of the Rickenbacker Electro-Spanish guitar. Introduced in 1935 at the same time as the famed Bakelite "Model B" Hawaiian Guitar, the Electro Spanish was not successful and in comparatively limited production for just a few years. Only a very small proportion were built up as tenors, making this the rarest of the rare!While original Electro-Spanish six-string guitars were built with short-scale molded Bakelite necks (and frets!), only a the first few early tenors used this construction. We would guess the very slim Bakelite 4-strings necks soon proved unreliable, more subject to warpage than the beefier 6-string versions. This tenor features a conventional wooden neck with a rosewood fingerboard and actual metal frets, making for a huge improvement in playability over the solid Bakelite necks. Since the four-string neck is not an unusually short scale (for a tenor) and is equipped with a bone nut and metal frets, this ranks as easily the most player-friendly Bakelite Spanish instrument we have ever tried!This guitar is the "middle" variation on the Bakelite Spanish theme, with the volume and tone knobs on opposite sides of the pickup and output jack still on the bass side. (more comments in listing)
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