Greenfield Brothers.

(Its crazy to think this was happening in our city over 70 years ago.)

Makers of Fine Hawaiian Guitars.

The Greenfield brothers were fine cabinet makers, based at 9457, 100A Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in the 1920s and early 1930s.

During the Hawaiian craze, starting in 1926, they made several models of guitar for Hawaiian style playing. It is not known how many instruments were made by them. As far as I know both brothers and their families left Canada during the depression in the early 1930s and moved to Florida in the USA. After which no one seems to have any knowledge of them. If anyone has any information or pictures I would like to hear from them. The workmanship is first class, I hope they continued to make fine cabinetwork wherever they ended up.

The first and earliest instrument(s) , known for obvious reasons as ‘The Log’ has a body and neck of similar dimensions, which is loud, but presents problems when tipping the bar away from the neck to play on the top string. The nose of the bar hits the neck top with a loud clunk!

The label on this example is dated August 1926 and the serial number is written as ‘One’.

It has ‘patent pending’ rubber stamped inside the body.