Post by phoenixuk on Oct 12, 2018 12:43:03 GMT -5
Hi All,
I recently bought a used guitar and decided that I would try my luck at emailing the manufacturer, Landola of Finland. Along with a lot of online reading, it does seem to get a little muddy trying to locate the actual specifics information wise.
My email to Landola was as follows;
I then received an appreciated reply not long after today;
I am still waiting to hear back from a further message to them, querying if we have something of relative value here, as we bought this guitar at a thrift sale for our nearly 9 year old son to learn the guitar but naturally, if it has some element of decent collectors value to it - we would rather store this one and get him another lesser generic one to learn on for now.
I'm including the best pictures that we can get at present but even to find out about the shape / style of the guitar body would be hugely helpful, as hours upon hours of searching online just doesn't show ANY guitar of this shape. Adding to the fact that this guitar has some form of early acoustic / electric plugin in but I do apologise for not knowing the official terms of these aspects, I'm in no way musically minded.
Thanks in advance and I hope to hear from somebody soon.
Regards,
I recently bought a used guitar and decided that I would try my luck at emailing the manufacturer, Landola of Finland. Along with a lot of online reading, it does seem to get a little muddy trying to locate the actual specifics information wise.
My email to Landola was as follows;
I have recently acquired a Classical Acoustic Guitar that is seemingly made by yourselves, Landola and I believe it's a 6-string but there's currently 3 steel strings and 3 nylon strings, whether they are supposed to be split like that we don't know.
I began searching online and noticed you had a 'Date your Guitar' page. However, I can't seem to make the serial numbers on ours, match with anything on your date your guitar list.
This has then led me to Bjarton Espana possibly but then whilst the serial numbers maybe begin to link a little better, it still has the Landola label and branding on the handle.
Please find the following images and the serials we can clearly see are;
SL-104 & 110099
I look forward to hearing from you hopefully, in due course.
Best Regards,
I began searching online and noticed you had a 'Date your Guitar' page. However, I can't seem to make the serial numbers on ours, match with anything on your date your guitar list.
This has then led me to Bjarton Espana possibly but then whilst the serial numbers maybe begin to link a little better, it still has the Landola label and branding on the handle.
Please find the following images and the serials we can clearly see are;
SL-104 & 110099
I look forward to hearing from you hopefully, in due course.
Best Regards,
Wow.It is Landola made Espana classical guitar made sometimes between 1967 and 1969 here at the Pietarsaari factory. It is unusual model, wich was made only 100-150 pcs. We took over Espana manufacturing in 1967 from Bjärton in sweden.
I am still waiting to hear back from a further message to them, querying if we have something of relative value here, as we bought this guitar at a thrift sale for our nearly 9 year old son to learn the guitar but naturally, if it has some element of decent collectors value to it - we would rather store this one and get him another lesser generic one to learn on for now.
I'm including the best pictures that we can get at present but even to find out about the shape / style of the guitar body would be hugely helpful, as hours upon hours of searching online just doesn't show ANY guitar of this shape. Adding to the fact that this guitar has some form of early acoustic / electric plugin in but I do apologise for not knowing the official terms of these aspects, I'm in no way musically minded.
Thanks in advance and I hope to hear from somebody soon.
Regards,