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My first contact with a Weissenborn guitar was when my friend and creator of the Weissenborn Web.Es Cesar called me to ask me to play one of his Weissenborn for a promotional video is a lapsteel-style Hawaiian guitar, made entirely of wood and with hollow neck you are Guitars were manufactured in the early 20th century by Hermann C.
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Weissenborn, a German luthier emigrated to California, who perfected the designs that another contemporary of his (Chris J. Knutsen) developed in the same period. As an instrument it was popular in the early twentieth century, until the appearance of the "resonating guitars."
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