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Levin Model 6 Dansant
Photo
1948 catalog

Photo
1957 catalog


Specifications:
Non-cutaway.
Body width: 420 mm.
Body length: 510 mm.
Hand carved spruce top.
Walnut or mahogany back & sides.
Single-bound top with unbound f-holes.
Single-bound back.
Unbound pickguard.
Mahogany neck with non-adjustable T-shaped duraluminum truss rod.
Unbound headstock with pearloid inlay.
Unbound rosewood fingerboard with pearloid dot inlay.
Nickel plated hardware.
Sunburst finish.
Ten year warranty.
Also available with a
Wingtone pickup (1950 Levin catalog).
Electro Wingtone pickup
(shown here with a Model 2 Solist pickguard).

Introduced: Circa 1947

Earliest known example: 190511 (1947)
194280 (1947)
196718 (1948)

Circa 1950:
Large bridge thumbwheels.

250174 (1951) - (added pickup)
251305 (1951)
277352 (1952)
2814xx (1952) - (missing pickguard, changed tailpiece)
304014 (1954) - (missing pickguard)

Circa 1954:
Cutaway.
Walnut back & sides.

Earliest known cutaway example: 312938 (1954)
330094 (1955)
335467 (1955)
336314 (1955)
Latest known non-cutaway example: 341938 (1956)
344821 (1956) - (repro pickguard)
352132 (1957) - (repro pickguard)

Circa 1957:
Adjustable truss rod.
Changed tailpiece design.

Latest known example: 361190 (1957)