The First Hawaiian Conservatory of Music was a marketing tool of the Oscar Schmidt Company, New Jersey. In the 1920's they advertised "Hawaiian Guitar" courses in magazines of the period.
For a nominal fee and monthly payments you were sold a guitar fitted with a Hawaiian nut raiser, and 12 months of correspondence lessons.
The instrument is best described as a "Parlor Guitar" made entirely of birch wood, with interior ladder bracing. Rope binding surrounds the soundhole and the mustache bridge gives it a distinct look!
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