Talk:Danelectro
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Anyone know why one of the guitars listed on this page links to a page about an airplane?
Yes.....the Douglas DC3 [ called a C-47 by the Army ] was the workhorse of WWII. There are hundreds of these still flying today. So it shares the name with the Dano guitar.
[edit] The Unique look of the Dan Electro Guitars
The person responsible for the unique look of the Dan Electro guitar is Industrial Designer, Sydney Rose of Little Silver N.J. (just north of Neptune). He also happens to be an artist who makes coin-op "nothing" machines that work by putting a coin in a slot that sets off all kinds of movements. These machines have the same aesthetics as the guitars (as do his paintings). His neihbor and fellow Dan Electro employee Alfred Manfreedi lives down the street and was the guitar repairman that worked on my guitars while growing up. He passed on in the late 80's. Sydney is now in a home for the elderly with his wife Ester. - Kit Krash.
[edit] Why I'm restoring an important external link
This is Howard Daniel. I'm the (63-year old) son of Danelectro's founder, Nathan I. Daniel, who died in 1994. In the last few days, several other editors have made a variety of changes to this article, and several of those changes have included deleting an external link to a tribute I wrote about my father and first linked to this article in April 2007. The link remained undisturbed until roughly a week ago. The tribute to my father, which resides on my own Web site, is mainly about the many innovations that my dad contributed to the world of electric guitars and musical instrument amplifiers. The article provides a great deal of Danelectro history that can be found nowhere else. I think my tribute is a very useful addition to this article, and I respectfully request other editors out there to not once again delete this external link, which I am about to restore. I truly believe the tribute to Nathan I. Daniel constitutes an important service to anyone interested in Danelectro.
Just to make sure everything is as clear as possible, the tribute can be found at http://www.pen4rent.com/pen4rent/tribute.aspx, and if anyone is tempted in the future to again delete the link, I urge you, in my father's memory, to look the article over before deleting the link. If anyone wishes to contact me about this, please let me know by e-mail at howard@pen4rent.com.
Thank you very much. Howard E. Daniel 05:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Despite my request not to delete the external link I restored a few hours ago, someone has indeed done so. If you are tempted to do it again, please do me the courtesy of explaining your reasoning. My reasoning for restoring the link is given above. Thank you.Howard E. Daniel 17:02, 5 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Howarddaniel (talk • contribs)
[edit] List of Danelectro players
I'd like to start a seperate page that lists some notable players of Danelectro and Sivlertone guitars, along the lines of the List of Telecaster players. Can people help out with some names and sources? Marshall Stax (talk) 18:44, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
