![]() ![]() In the early 70s, Martin guitars of PA were having quality issues and Goya guitars had become fairly popular in the US. I recently was able to purchase this guitar, and the serial number dates it to 1965 or 1966. ![]() This one is a Goya N-26, which is the same as the Levin LN-26 and about the same as the earlier Levin M-26. Many Goyas were new models, but some were the same as Levin models with different numbers. They eventually sold guitars made by Levin in Sweden as Goya guitars (after Francisco Goya, the Spanish painter who sometimes included guitars in his work). of New York wanted to market Levin guitars in the US. ![]() In the 1950s, the Hershman Musical Instrument Co. Over the years, the Levin company made hundreds of thousands of instruments. Levin soon started his own instrument company in America, but eventually moved back to Sweden to establish a new instrument company. He chose Levin and then moved to New York City where he found work in a guitar factory. Carlson had apprenticed as a woodworker in Sweden and eventually became a journeyman, at which time he took a third name as was the custom then. ![]() The Herman Carlson Levin Musical Instrument Factory was established by Herman Carlson Levin in Sweden in 1900. Early 1966 Goya N-26 acoustic guitar, made by Levin guitars in Sweden.Įuropean Alpine spruce top, figured European curly maple back and sides, mahogany neck, rosewood (possibly Brazilian) fingerboard, bridge, and peghead veneer, X-braced, sunburst gloss finish. ![]()
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