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Stella was an American guitar brand owned by the Oscar Schmidt Company. It was founded around 1899. The Stella brand consists of low and mid-level stringed instruments. Stella guitars were played by notable artists, including Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, Charley Patton, Doc Watson and Willie Nelson who learned to play on one.
Preserving the legacy of the old Oscar Schmidt Company, makers of Stella Guitars.
May 12, 2015 · Stella was a brand of guitars owned and operated by the Oscar Schmidt Company and was founded around 1899. The company produced low to mid level stringed instruments. The Stella guitar was great for playing blues music, and were played by several notable artists including Leadbelly and Charlie Patton. Doc Watson began playing on a ...
A Few Stella Guitar Myths & Factoids 1. All “A. Galiano” guitars were made by Oscar Schmidt. Untrue. Although many Galiano guitars were relabeled Stellas made by Schmidt, a fair number of them were made by independent Italian American luthiers such as Antonio Cerrito, Raphael Ciani, and Joseph Nettuno.
On his legendary 1931 recordings for Paramount, Skip James is said to have played a jumbo Stella 12-string guitar strung with six only strings. But it was not Skip’s guitar. That jumbo Stella was furnished by the recording company for the recording session.
If you are a fan of early Blues then you will be familiar with the name Stella Guitars. These were the guitars made by the Oscar Schmidt Company in New Jerse...
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Dec 9, 2018 · Wizard of Odd: Stella—A Story of Strange Solidbodies. Frank Meyers. December 9, 2018. You may know that Charley Patton, Lead Belly, and Doc Watson played Stella acoustics built in New Jersey in the 1930s, but these oddball post-WWII electrics hail from Tokyo.
