Levin Parlor Guitars - Part 4

More vintage guitars from Sweden...
I use 0.10 strings on both..

On July 27th 1900, Herman Carlson Levin began building his wonderful stringed instruments in a small workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden. My great passion is collecting these instruments that, to my eyes (and ears), were some of the finest guitars ever built..

Certainly, many people today know of Levin for its fine old arch-top guitars or its plainer and not quite so fine-sounding beginners' instruments from the 50s and 60s.
But long before this, Levin was top of it's class in Europe and other parts of the world. It already achieved a high-point as an instrument maker at the 1907 World's Fair in Madrid, where it won the gold medal for the best guitar. Remember, this was in the Spanish guitar builders' home territory. Not only that, Levin was awarded the exhibition's Grand Prix!

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[tallercaller]

Beautiful sounding guitars you have there, John.  It's almost enough for me to wish I was right-handed instead of left....

[BottleneckJohn]

Thanks, bro!

No problem to convert one into left hand set-up..

[natureswhey]

Very nice John...I think I'll send my seagoing friends from Sweden an email to start looking a couple of these to bring back to Halifax for me...their ships always start and stop in Gothenburg every 5 weeks...ACL

Kevin