This Vita-Uke is a bit worn in but a very good player, complete with the even rarer original heavy chipboard case. and coveted chipboard case with Embroidered Roy Smeck Vita Uke in the fabric.
#Roy smeck ukelele serial
There are a couple of well-sealed back cracks, quite solid but visibly touched-up. Here for sale is an early example of the work of harmony built ukuleles. 1940s Roy Smeck by Harmony Soprano Mahogany Ukulele Plays and sounds Great 299 Buy It Now 25 Shipping Location:Saginaw,MI,USA Ukulele Vintage Harmony Roy Smeck Uke 1950s 12 Fret Chicago USA Mahogany AS-IS 99.99 Buy It Now 29.99 Shipping Location:Canada VINT AUTHENTIC 1950s ROY SMECK UKULELE 21' UK-70 SERIAL SI07055295 49. The back shows some scuffs and scrapes as well, and the bridge has been visibly reglued. Nice original condition overall with no alterations but some average wear, most visibly into the top finish from strumming near the fingerboard down over the "seal" f-holes. (5.7 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. This is a very good-sounding instrument notwithstanding its rather eccentric design, and a good-playing example. This is still a fairly rare instrument while the Vita-Uke proved popular, not that many have survived in good playable condition. Also a fine guitarist and banjo player, Smeck later in life became a music teacher based in New York City. The headstock decal reads "Roy Smeck" "Vita-Uke" over a small Harmony "H" in a diamond. Nicknamed 'the Wizard of the Strings,' Roy Smeck (1900-1994) was one of Americas top ukulele performers in the 1920s and 30s, a vaudeville player who amazed audiences with his flashy technique on records, onstage, and in films. Banjo, uke and (hawaiian) lap steel guitar. Cycling Sporting Goods Swimming Running Musical Instruments Accordion & Concertina Brass Equipment Guitar Harmonica Instruction Books, CDs & Video Karaoke. The Vita-Uke was by far the most popular, sold well into the 1930's after the rest of the line had passed into history. uke, g, 1900-1994 US, Reading, Pennsylvania Musician of Jazz and Pop A.k.a.
#Roy smeck ukelele series
The series encompassed a guitar, tenor guitar, plectrum guitar, mandolin, and ukulele all of similar eccentric design with a distinctive body outline and seal-shaped f-holes, for reasons lost to history! They all feature fancy flamed mahogany bodies with spruce tops, and the guitars had the patented Harmony Aero-Bridge, shaped vaguely like an airplane.
The 1928 Roy Smeck-endorsed "Vita" line was one of Harmony's most whimsical creations, but were also fairly high-grade instruments, and the endorsement was a major promotional coup for the company. 1929, made in Chicago, natural lacquer finish, mahogany body and neck, spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, original black chipboard case. Harmony Roy Smeck Vita-Uke Model Ukulele, c.
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