These tailpiece-style steel-string flattop "parlor" size models have a tone that's halfway between an archtop's balance, cut, and zing and a pin-bridge guitar's mellow warmth and lingering overtones. This bracing pattern gives these old Regals good volume and an enormous, saucy tonality. This has Regal's typical modified ladder bracing which features only two braces on the lower bout - one right under the bridge that also serves as a "bridge plate" on the pin-bridge models and one set at an angle ("transverse bracing") near the soundhole. This one was made by Regal around 1910 and sports typical "Chicago" style purfling lifted from the furniture trade, a solid (wide grain) spruce top, and solid birch back/sides/neck with a faux-rosewood painted finish on the body.
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