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2. The Regal Musical Instrument Company is a former US musical instruments company and current brand owned by different companies through the ages. By the 1930s, Regal was one of the largest manufacturers in the world. Since its inception, the Regal name has been used in a wide range of resonator instruments, such as guitars, mandolins and ukuleles.

Number range Year 800 - 1400 1929 1400 - 2000 1930 2000 - 2600 1931 2600 - 3200 1932 3200 - 3900 1933 4000s 1933 (mostly Regal made) 5000 - 5600 1933 (California made) 5700 - 7600 1934-1936 (California made) 8000 - 9900 1936 & 1937 L9000s. Sep 15, 2017 Look at the first number of your serial number if one exists. Through 1987, Aria guitars serial numbers represented the year of manufacturer as either the first one or first two digits of the serial number. For example, a guitar made in 1978 might have the first two digits of 78 or the first digit of 8.

The Regal Musical Instrument Company is a former USmusical instruments company and current brand owned by different companies through the ages. By the 1930s, Regal was one of the largest manufacturers in the world.

Since its inception, the Regal name has been used in a wide range of resonator instruments, such as guitars, mandolins and ukuleles. Nowadays Regal is property Saga Musical Instruments, with its instruments manufactured in Korea and distributed in San Francisco, United States.^[1]

Currently, only resonator guitars are sold under the Regal brand. All are manufactured in Korea and then distributed in the United States.^[1]

History[edit]

Emil Wulschner, a retailer of Indianapolis, opened his first music instruments factory –'Emil Wulschner & Son' in 1896 to build guitars and mandolins. Products were sold under three brand names: Regal, University and 20th. Century. Ravenfield beta 1 download. Wulschner died in 1900,^[1] and the new owners renamed the company the 'Regal Musical instrument Manufacturing Company' in 1901 and continued using the Regal name on instruments through 1904.

In 1904, Lyon & Healy purchased rights to the brand Regal. Four years later, the company officially re-introduced the Regal name^[1] in Chicago, establishing their factory there. Lyon & Healy set Regal up as an independent company in 1924.

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During its first years of existence, Regal only marketed 4-string instruments such as ukuleles and tenor guitars. The production of 6-string guitars would began later. The Regal brand was heavily involved in the production of resonator fretted instruments from their first development until 1941, manufacturing components and bodies for both the National and the Dobro companies which they acquired in 1934, though the Dopyera brothers still produced the resonator cones for them. The bodies of their laminated bellied guitars were particularly suited to resonator conversion.^[2]

In the early 1930s, Regal had licensed the use of Dobro resonators. When National moved from California to Chicago, Regal acquired the rights to manufacture Dobro instruments. That made Regal be another producer of 'house brand' guitars before World War II.

Production of resonator guitars ceased in 1941, and of all fretted instruments in 1954. That same year, Regal close down as a company, and its rights to the name and assets were sold to the Harmony Company. Harmony owned Regal for a brief period so Fender took over the brand in the late 1950s.^[1] In 1965, Fender distributed five models of banjo under the Regal name, as the 'exclusive distributors'. It is not clear when Fender ceased to commercialised Regal products.

In an effort to reintroduce the brand to global markets and focusing on overseas production sources, Saga Musical Instruments acquired the Regal name in 1987 and has steadily produced a complete line of metal and wood body resophonic instruments.^[1]

Brand owners[edit]

• Emil Wulschner & Son (1896–1904)
• Lyon & Healy (1904–1954)
• Harmony Company (1954–late 1950s)
• Fender (1950s–?)
• Saga Musical Instruments (1987–present)

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdefThe history of the famous Regal guitar on Jags House website
2. ^Regal Musical Instrument Co. on Lardy's Ukulele Database

External links[edit]

• Regal on Saga Music website

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Instruments currently produced inKorea. Distributed by Saga Musical Instruments of San Francisco,California. Original Regal instruments produced beginning 1896 inIndianapolis, Indiana. Regal reappeared in Chicago, Illinois in 1908,possibly tied to Lyon and Healy (WASHBURN). U.S. production wascentered in Chicago from 1908 through the late 1960s. Models from themid 1950s to the late 1960s produced in Chicago, Illinois by theHarmony company. Some Regal models licensed to Fender, and someappear with Fender logo during the late 1950s to mid 1960s (prior toFender´s own flat-top and Coronado series).

Emil Wulschner was a retailer andwholesaler in Indianapolis, Indiana during the 1880s. In the early1890s he added his stepson to the company, and changed the name to'Wulschner and Son'. They opened a factory around 1896 to buildguitars and mandolins under three different trademarks: Regal,University, and 20th Century. Though Wulschner passed away in 1900,the factory continued on through 1902 or 1903 under control of alarger corporation. The business end of the company let it go whenthe economy faltered during those final years. This is the end of theoriginal Regal trademarked instruments.

In 1904 Lyon & Healy (WASHBURN)purchased the rights to the Regal trademark, thousands of completedand works in progress instruments, and the company stockpile of rawmaterials. A new Regal company debuted in Chicago, Illinois in 1908(it is not certain what happened during those four years) and it issupposed that they were tied to Lyon & Healy. The new companymarketed ukuleles and tenor guitars, but not 6-stringguitars.

However, experts have agreed thatRegal built guitar models for other labels (Bruno, Weyman, Stahl, andLyon & Healy) during the 1910-1920 era. Regal eventuallyannounced that their six string models would be distributed through anumber of wholesalers.

In 1930, the Tonk Bros. Companyacquired the rights to the Washburn trademark when the then-currentholder (J. R. Stewart Co.) went bankrupt. Regal bought the rights tothe Stewart and LeDomino names from Tonk Bros., and was makingfretted instruments for all three trademarks. Also in the early1930s, Regal had licensed the use of Dobro resonators in a series ofguitars. In 1934 they acquired the rights to manufacture Dobro brandinstruments when National-Dobro moved to Chicago from California.Regal then announced that they would be joining the name brand guitarproducers that sold direct to dealers in 1938. Regal was, in effect,another producer of 'house brand' guitars prior to World WarII.

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It has been estimated by one sourcethat Regal-built Dobros stopped in 1940, and were not built from thenon. During World War II, guitar production lines were converted tothe war effort. After the war, the Regal Musical Instrumentcompany´s production was not as great as the pre- war productionamounts. In 1954 the trademark and company fixtures were sold toHarmony. Harmony and Kay, were the other major producers of HouseBrand instruments. Regal guitars were licensed to Fender in the late1950s, and some of the Harmony built 'Regals' were rebranded with theFender logo. This agreement continued up until the mid 1960s, whenFender introduced their own flat-top guitars.

Regal Acoustic Guitar Serial Numbers

In 1987, Saga Musical Instrumentsreintroduced the Regal trademark to the U.S. market. Regal now offersa traditional resonator guitar in both a round neck and square neckversions. Saga, located in San Francisco, also offers the Blueridgeline of acoustic instruments, as well as mandolins, and stringedinstrument parts and replacement pieces.(Early Regal history courtesyJohn Teagle, Washburn: Over One Hundred Years of Fine StringedInstruments. This noteworthy book brilliantly unravels core historiesof Washburn, Regal, and Lyon & Healy and is a recommended mustread to guitar collectors.)

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