There is a small scuffed / dented area on the back, perhaps the back rested on the case buckle at some point. The top, back and soundhole are bound with a grained ivoroid celluloid. It has beautiful engraving on the bell that reads: Lyon& Healy.
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L&H had many different sequences of serial numbers but this model appears in the 1911 L&H catalog so it would have been made in or near that year.
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This Washburn Soprano ukulele is built with a mixture of Mahogany for the body and bridge, Spanish Cedar for the neck, Rosewood for the fingerboard and small pieces of Ebony for the nut and saddle. Here is a very nice looking Lyon& Healy American Professional Bb/A cornet. Several other ownership changes have taken place and the line is presently owned by JAM Industries.Īs to Lyon and Healy, towards the end of the 1970’s, the Steinway company purchased Lyon & Healy, spinning off their other efforts to focus on building quality harps. The name was resurrected in the late 1960’s and applied to Japanese-made instruments.
However, the name faded until by 1940 it was largely a memory kept alive by legal means. In 1928, the Washburn line was sold to the Tonk Brothers, but it went bankrupt and was purchased by Regal in 1930. Lyon and Healy started building harps in 1864 and in 1883 established Washburn as one of their premiere lines for other instruments.
Early history of the firm is vague as most of the company records were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The firm began as a large retailer of sheet music, musical instruments and related merchandise. Here’s a treat – a Washburn Soprano Ukulele, built by Lyon & Healy during the 1920s in Chicago, Illinois and in very nice condition with the original canvas trap-door case. Lyon & Healy was established in Chicago by George W.
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