![]() ![]() Style 1 was plain, and Styles 2, 3, and 4 sported progressively fancier engraved floral patterns. “white brass,” an alloy of copper and zinc – the basic elements of brass – with nickel added). National introduced the resonator guitar to the world in 1927, and it reflected the opulence of the Jazz Age, with not just one, but three resonator cones in a body of shining nickel-plated “German silver” (a.k.a. It offered plenty of visual flash at just over half the cost of the cheapest National tri-cone, and its brass body gave it a sound all its own. ![]() As a brass-bodied guitar, it occupied a unique spot between National’s inexpensive single-cone steelbodies and the high-end “German silver” tri-cone models (though there were a few single-cone models with German silver bodies). Introduced in 1930, the Style O was the endpoint of several years of rapid evolution of the resonator guitar. Although it has never been the favorite guitar of Hawaiian players, National’s Style O, with its shining metal body and tropical imagery, stands today as one of the strongest icons for the Hawaiian music that was the foundation of the resonator guitar’s popularity in the early 1930s.
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