Conversion between Goya and Levin model names

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Permalink Reply by Jim Yates on March 15, 2012 at 9:34am

I have a friend who owns a Levin LM-26 from the late '60s.  It is the same guitar as my 1958 Goya M-26 with the exceptin of the Levin decal where mine has a Goya.  Mine even has the Ldevin crest as a truss rod cover.

Permalink Reply by Jim Yates on March 17, 2012 at 5:07pm

My mistake.  Jude's guitar is late 50s, not late 60s.

Permalink Reply by Jim Yates on March 15, 2012 at 9:38am

Here;s a link to some Levin catalogues:  http://goyaguitars.tripod.com/levin_catalogs.htm

and some Goya catalogues;  http://goyaguitars.tripod.com/goya_catalogs.htm

Permalink Reply by Magnus Hultin on March 17, 2012 at 5:27pm

In general, the Goyas named G-XX had a Levin sister named LG-XX, but there were exceptions.

As example of exception the G-30 (later called GG-30) in Levin naming was model 111.

 

I asked a former Levin executive about some of the naming and got the picture that there were differrent levels of logic to it. The first series of Goya steelstringed guitars were named S-14, S-16, S-18, etc. It is logical that the S- were for "Steel". Later on in the 60:s the models were modified and renamed to T-14, T-16, T-18, etc. I asked "Why T?"....

The executive smiled and asked "What comes after S?"....:)

I cannot explain why the sunburst were named M-XX, but in the same logic as above, the succeding models in the mid 60:s were named N-XX.

The Levin versions of all these models were LS-XX, LT-XX, LM-XX, LN-XX.

The best source of info is Vintage-Guitars in Stockholm.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Nils Plathe on March 27, 2012 at 3:16am

Thanks Magnus. I assume there is no Goya equivalent to my Levin W36 as this would have been sold by Martin as the D-18 in the US. Seems like there are a few bargains to be made on the Goyas, though.

Permalink Reply by Jim Yates on June 25, 2012 at 8:26am

Although I know that the Goya M-26 and the Levin LM-26 were essentially the same guitar with different decals, I'm unaware of a conversion chart.   Take a look at this (largely inactive) site:  http://goyaguitars.tripod.com/index1.htm#home