Specifications:
Non-cutaway.
Body width: 355 mm.
Body depth: 110 mm.
Spruce top with undetermined bracing.
Flame maple back & sides.
Single-bound top.
Single-bound back.
Flame maple neck with non-adjustable T-shaped duraluminum truss rod.
Unbound rosewood fingerboard.
Dark sunburst finish.
Introduced: ca 1937
ca 1939:
Available in antique (Antik) or dark sunburst (Mörk) finish.
ca 1942:
Also available as nylon-string guitar (Klangola Solist).
ca 1949:
Changed headstock design.
ca 1950:
Satin golden brown finish.
ca 195?:
Rounded fingerboard end.
1956 Latest known example
The Klangola, Torres and Zandelin line of guitars
was designed by Egon Zandelin and made by Levin
for Förlaget Filadelfia AB, a music publishing
company owned by the Pentecostal Movement.
Egon Zandelin (1912-2002) was a singer/composer/
guitar builder who head of the company's music
department during 1937-1968..
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