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1930s Tonk Brothers
Washburn "Dreadnought"
© Frank Ford, 2002; Photos by FF
From that peculiar Tonk Brothers period of Washburn's production in the 1930s,
we have the one you hardly ever see. In those days, the dreadnought hadn't yet
become a world wide standard, and today Martin and Gibson dominate our thoughts
of that period of guitar development. Here's another competitor. It's a full
dreadnought size Brazilian rosewood guitar and it rips!