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Alamo Lapsteel

The evolution

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Pickups

Two specially designed "Vintage Trouble" singlecoils deliver raw and transparent tone. This is a first in the Duesenberg Lapsteel lineup.

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Multibender

The Duesenberg Multibender Bridge System is a user-configurable tone bending device for harmoic up- and down-bends. It can take up to five levers that can be used to modulate chords and melodies.

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Speed Pot

The Alamo comes with our genuine speed-pot as tone control. This pot operates at a reduced 70° angle allowing you to create tone swells with your fingertip.

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Top view of the Duesenberg Alamo Lapsteel

Easy?
Yes, please.

Duesenberg lapsteels are not only famous for their distinctive and clear tone but also the many features that make your life as a lapsteel artist so much easier.

Talking about easy, the integrated "Easy-Shift Capodaster" enables you to adapt to key changes with the turn of a thumb-screw. Simply loosen the screw, place the capodaster where you need it and start playing. It also runs on a rail inside the fretboard so you cannot misplace it.


Pickups?
Totally new.

The Alamo is the first Duesenberg Lapsteel to feature true and specially designed singlecoils. They deliver the raw, transparent and characteristic tone that breaks up beautifully once you turn up the volume.
These pickups are housed underneath our unique "Phonico" pickup covers providing the Alamo with an original look that will turn heads.


Multibender?
Absolutely.

The freely configurable Multibender is operated with the heel of the picking hand. Up to five levers can be mounted, which allow you to either raise or lower the notes on the individual strings to a preset pitch. Artists around the world love to use the Multibender to modulate chords, like from major to minor, adding a dominant seven or anything else imaginable.

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Would you like something extra?

The Multibender can take up to five levers which can all be set up individually.
Get more levers for your Lapsteel

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Nickel Hardware

Most of our hardware is nickel finished.

You will find the geometrical three steps in almost every part on our instruments, from the curves on the headstock to the shape of the output jack.

When compared to regular chrome finishes, nickel has a beautiful warm and elegant sheen and ages naturally over time. It's the way things were done before chrome became the standard. If you don't want the hardware on your instrument to age, we recommend regular cleaning.

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Made to hold something that lasts

A good case is one that's more sturdy than what's inside.

Handsome, laid-back and simply a good place for your instrument. Meet the Duesenberg Custom Line Cases. True flightcase quality, classically shaped, beautifully handcrafted and made to endure the most realistic and unrealistic abuses. It's a case you can just throw in the back of a car, train or airplane and won't have to worry about.

This instrument comes including the Duesenberg Custom Line Case as standard.

Body/Neck
Wood: Korina (+ Maple top on headstock)
Width at nut: 65 mm / 2.56"
Dimensions: 94 x 19 x 4.2 cm / 37" x 7.48" x 1.65"
Stringspacing: 54 mm / 2.13"
Fingerboard: Anodized aluminum
Scale length: 648 mm / 25.5"
Finish: PUR lacquer
Hardware
Tuners: Duesenberg Z-Tuner, "Art Diego" buttons
Nut: Duesenberg Roller Nut
Bridge: Duesenberg Multibender
Plus: Duesenberg Easy Shift Capo
Hardware color: Nickel
Strings: Duesenberg Custom 016/056 (016-018-026-036-046-056)
Electrics
Pickup (neck): Duesenberg VintageTrouble Neck "Phonico"
Pickup (bridge): Duesenberg VintageTrouble Bridge "Phonico"
Wiring: 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 3-Way Pickup Selector
Accessories
Case: Custom Line Case (included)
Tools: All required allen keys (included)

Find your Duesenberg Instrument

Choose Type

Semi Hollow

Bent sides and glued on top and back. Added solid center block. The classic construction. Semi-Hollow instruments combine the distinct tone of a hollow construction with the feedback resistance of a solid body. Extremely versatile.

Chambered

A solid body that features big sound chambers for enhanced tone and weight reduction. Particularly characteristic tone somewhere between a solid and semi-hollow construction.

Solidbody

Made from a single slab of wood. Delivers instant response, a lot of attack and sustain and perfect feedback resistance.