![]() ![]() Soon after a line of hollow-body guitars was added, which were also visually distinctive to put it mildly. ![]() Top of the line in Sorkin's catalogs, early Premier amplifiers were offered in a variety of sizes and often eye-catching styles, and soon became a well-known fixture - on the East Coast, at least. ![]() Sorkin was by then a well-established distributor in New York City, and in the late '40s began to more aggressively promote their own often unique in-house brands, the flagship of which was Premier. In 1958, into this breach stepped the Peter Sorkin company, one of the city's larger Jobbers. Although Gretsch claimed their "Jet" line as solid, they were actually little hollow-bodies in disguise, as was Guild's elegant M-75 Aristocrat. After Leo Fender's introduction of the Telecaster and Stratocaster in the early 1950s, many of the other manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon, including Gibson, Harmony, Kay, Rickenbacker, Magnatone, and even the conservative Vega company.įor some reason the New York area builders (Gretsch, Guild, and the soon-to-expire Epiphone operation) avoided these new-fangled solid-body electrics altogether. This scroll-body Premier guitar is one of the coolest and quirkiest 6-strings to come out of the New York area, and also one of the very earliest solid-body designs from the East Coast segment of the industry. Premier Western Special E726 Model Solid Body Electric Guitar (1959), made in New York, NY, natural lacquer finish, mahogany body, rosewood neck, original black hard shell case.
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