Hello MARK,
u wrote in a message to Lutz Sauer:
 MV> 'allo Lutz!  I don't imagine Nat'l sold too many of the
 MV> Radio-Tones, given that their metal-body guitars are so good
 MV> & reasonably-priced. 
It's my impression, too. but I didn't play it for longer than 15 minutes.
 MV> I don't know if I said it here, but I played 1) a Dobro
 MV> "Hula Blues"  model a few days back.  Sounded better than
 MV> the old Regal fake resonator  that I used to have, but I
 MV> wasn't that impressed.  
I#ve played a cheap regal some days ago, the sound seemed allright with me. 
But it was loud like whispering :-((
 MV> Then I grabbed one of  those chromed
 MV> Dobro Duolians (they have the rights to that model-name).  
 MV> All I had was a plastic Bic lighter for a slide, but I put
 MV> the guitar in E  (appropriate for the "Dobro sound") and had
 MV> some fun.  
I never saw chromed Duolians.
 MV> 3) was a Takamine  12-string that's kind of
 MV> off-topic if we're talking resonators.  Anyway,  it was fun,
 MV> but hard to 4-finger-pick (I don't know if there's a
 MV> 12-string  with wide enough space between the string pairs
 MV> to be easier).   
I took one song from my 6 string Takamine to my 12 string Ibanez. No problem 
;-)
 
 MV> MV> Et a Radiotone and tell us about it after 90 days.
For a test it's a little bit to much money :-(((((. I think I will take some 
time and search opportunities to compare. It's a long time till christmas ;-)
MFG,
   Lutz
l.sauer@f3215.n2426.z2.fidonet.org 
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