Product Description
Miami is one of the names used by Oscar Schmidt, the maker of the early Stella guitars that were often the choice of the early blues players. They were affordable and plentiful, available all over the South. Acccording to blues authority Steve James, the travelling blues musicians who often travelled by jumping freight trains, would sell their guitars before leaving a town and could easily buy another one at the next tow. They were designed to crossover between Hawaiian lap style and standard playing, and thus had a longer scale, often 26 ½" which fit nicely as a tool for the bottleneck players due to the tighter string tension.
This Miami is the rare jumbo size, the same as the most well known Stella, Leadbelly's amazing 12-string. With the vine fretboard inlay and fancy purfling, spruce top and mahogany back and sides it's one of OS's top models.
