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Measurements sure match up, don't they! That's a Hughes kit guitar! Bo Diddley built his first rectangular guitar himself, but later, had them...
A few links about the Hughes Dulcimer company:...
And, exploring my basement some more reveals that I only assembled one of the two thumb piano kits; and the other box still contains the company...
PPS, one might think it odd that I had a kit to build a trapezoidal guitar in my basement, yet didn't at first even remember it..... Not as...
Googling V. E. Hughes Peach Box Guitar is tricky, because both Hughes and Peach are current brand names in the guitar world. Hughes did write a...
I measured and checked the instructions. Materials look consistent with yours; top was available in solid spruce or mahogany; I got the spruce,...
I bet that's what it is - made from a Hughes kit. He called it a peach-box guitar. And those kits were plywood. I built two of their thumb...
PS -in the early 70s or so there was a company that made kits for musical instruments, thumb pianos, and trapezoidal 6 and 12 string guitars; this...
It isn't a cigar-box guitar, because it isn't made from a cigar-box; and nothing I recognize. I'd be pretty sure this is simply a home-made...
Just from memory, so I could be wrong; but I recall that there is an official Dali verification site, which however charges for their services....
Best wishes to your MIL. Others have offered good advice; I'd just add that you can afford to take your time, and to check out more than one of...
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