With the Hawaiian craze in music and musical instruments starting in the mid 19teens Koa wood started to be used for guitar construction.
By the 1920’s many manufacturers made Koa models, including Martin.
This guitar Style 749 was Weymann’s homage to this beautiful Hawaiian tonewood. As far as I know this model was H.A. Weymann & Son’s only Koa model. I have photos of 2 examples:
1. WEYMANN Koa Guitar Style 749: Owner Keith Walker.
WEYMANN All Koa-wood Guitar 1931 Style 749, Owner Keith Walker
A beautiful example of this model. Serial number dates it to ca.1931. Surprisingly this example has the Style number omitted from the top of the headstock, but there is little doubt it is a Style 749.
Extract from Weymann’s c.1930 catalogue describing the all Koa Style 749 guitar (there was no drawing accompanying the description).
“People with cancer are easy targets for naturopathic scams because they can be desperate for hope and extensively research their treatment options.
‘Natural’ treatments with few side effects appear irresistible when compared to surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. But it is almost impossible for most people to know beforehand that these natural remedies won’t do anything for their cancer. If the cancer returns, they are more likely to blame the cancer rather than the ineffective natural remedies they received.” Source: By Suneel D. Kamath August 29, 2017
People who have read some of my blog will know that I have been dealing with advanced prostate cancer now for very close to 20 years. Initially I started off self-treating with the help of a naturopath with diet and alternative medicines and lots of exercise.
However, early on I had some good advice: “Cancer is an aggressive beast, and requires aggressive treatment, this can only be achieved by Western medicine”. Natural therapies can play a useful, supportive role even if only to enable management of one’s overall health pro-actively going forward.
This is the route I’ve taken during my 20 years of treatment and it has stood me in good stead.
Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the surface of single cancer cells – prostate cancer cell on the left and breast cancer cell on the right. These cells have surface projections which are characteristic of highly mobile cells and enable them to spread (metastasis) rapidly round the body, and invade other organs and tissues. Cancer cells divide rapidly and chaotically and may clump to form malignant tumors. Source: Science Photo Library.
H.A. Weymann & Son made at least five styles of ‘f’ sound-hole guitars. Once their manufacturing ceased in about 1933 they also commissioned ‘f’ hole guitars along with other instruments from manufacturers such as Harmony. Here I am only talking about the guitars Weymann manufactured themselves.
