Vintage archtop guitar - Levin DANSANT 1949

This old archtop is a cool one!!
Now it's repaired and electrified too, LoL!!
Sound great for some 1950's slide blues..

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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• Levin
• DANSANT
• guitar
• vintage
• archtop
• jazzburk
• bottleneck
• john
• slide
• slideguitar
• sweden
• swedish

[kuba666pl]

I listen to rock and metal but hell, I like what your'e playing it's great :)

[BottleneckJohn]

That's really nice to hear!!!

Rock & Metal got their roots in the blues!!

[freekwit2es]

what kind of pickup are you using?

[BottleneckJohn]

It's a mini humbucker, can't say what brand. It was taken from a jazz archtop..

[jugglerjoe]

How do you get that nice tone?

What kind of amp?

Can I use a tube amp (withoutt feedback) for more warmth and a little distortion with my archtop?

I love your playing, just simple. That's really what blues is all about...not all this fancy shit people play these days. Keep picking n sliding.

[BottleneckJohn]

It sure has a nice tone!

I'm afraid that there's no cool tube amp involved in this clip, haha, the amp you hear is a Roland Micro-Cube!!!!!

A super nice small "practice-amp"...

Anyhow, the tone is awesome in this guitar!

The feedback comes with volume so if you keep it down a bit you should be able to play your archtop without any problems!!

Thanks for your comments, I like to keep it simple(don't know anything else,LoL)

[Hb35Jazz]

Hardcore playin'! :)

[bathwhoreE]

I'll give you $100 for that Piece of Crap.!!!!!!! Seriously, I Love it.Don't sell that guitar for any price.

[hanseatus]

Love this rough tasty touch , its like going to my early roots, the deep sound the deep feeling , wanna going home ...........long way .............

[JESSEGARON2]

love that sound!!!

[jasonwhiton]

great playing- thanks!

[kuba666pl]

yep I know :) really I'm a music freak, I love music and instruments... ;)