Talk:National String Instrument Corporation

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[edit] Proposed merge

User:Esemono has tagged National Resophonic and National Reso-Phonic Guitars to both be merged into the National String Instrument Corporation article.

I support at least one of these merges. There is IMO little if anything to merge from National Resophonic, so basically it can simply be made a redirect, but where to is a good question.

The case of National Reso-Phonic Guitars is a little more complex. Again, there is not much to merge, but there is a little, and IMO the new company deserves an article of its own. So perhaps it would be better to label this as a stub and allow it to grow. For commercial purposes, the current company would probably prefer a merge, to allow them to make the best advantage of the brand's history. If this article is kept separate, then National Resophonic should redirect there, not to National String Instrument Corporation. Andrewa 18:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

In that nobody else has commented, here's my proposal:

• Keep National String Instrument Corporation and National Reso-Phonic Guitars as separate articles. They are separate companies. The articles should each link to the other of course, as they share a trademark and trade name.

• Merge National Resophonic to National Reso-Phonic Guitars, which appears according to their website to be the better name for this company.

Comments still welcome of course. Andrewa 23:04, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

And that's what I've now done. If you think there's anything in the old National Resophonic article that should be copied to the current articles, please do this, but I've looked hard.

In particular, be aware that the history section in the old National Resophonic article is largely inaccurate. Andrewa 03:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Electric guitars???

I've removed this article from Category:Electric guitars. AFAIK they never made any. Other resonator guitar manufacturers did, most notably Dobro. But not National. Andrewa 00:43, 20 September 2006 (UTC)