Collection of pictures, sheet music, memorabilia, of our two foremost Swedish jazz guitarists during the 1930´s and 1940´s – Folke Eriksberg & Sven Stiberg! Many of the items here were given to me by Swedish jazz guitar player Rolf Jardemark (https://rolfjardemark.com/).
Kay-Tone “Count” guitars, 1946 ad.
The Kay-Tone line of guitars was made by Levin during 1939-1947 for Ehrling & Löfvenholm, a music store and music publishing company formed in 1939 by famous Swedish band leader and composer Thore Ehrling and Berthel Löfvenholm (info from great homepage – link: https://www.vintage-guitars.se/)
Kay-Tone guitar ads 1941-1945 (from homepage “vintage-guitars.se”):
Ehrling & Löfvenholm, formed in 1939; Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 2 feb 1941
Svenska Hotkvintetten, vinyl (Odeon, 1970), CD (Dragon,1993)
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 3 March 1939, no 11 Nov 1941
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 12 Dec 1940
Eriksberg 1929 & 1936! Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, Nov-1950, Nov-1958
Gibson strings ad in Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 1 Jan 1934 (no 3 of the newly started jazz magazine!); ad for “Daily Exercises” (below) “Orkesterjournalen” no 12 Dec 1944.
Eriksberg (1938 ad) with Levin guitar nr22, amp Centrum Goliat, guitar microphone Riff (ad below)
Levin archtop guitar no22, from Levin catalogue 1940 (from homepage “vintage-guitars.se”)
Levin catalogue 1937, Levin ad 1947 (from homepage “vintage-guitars.se”), the new form (“i ny gestalt”) being archtops with cutaway!
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, March 1939. Centrum Radio was founded 1937 in Stockholm, parent company Gylling & Co, founded in 1912, agency for, and manufacturing radio equipment. Guitar microphone ad “Orkesterjournalen” no 7 July 1943!
Guitar designed by Eriksberg, made by Ramona musical instruments factory, Sweden, 1940´s (ad “Orkesterjournalen” no 10 Oct 1943).
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 9 Sept 1943, no 2 Feb 1942
Excerpt from Swedish music magazine “Estrad”, 1939; ad for Westin prod., incl four guitar soli by Eriksberg (below), the “Daily Exercises” (above), “Orkesterjournalen” no 2 Feb 1945
Folke Eriksberg, three Guitar Soli, Stockholm 1943:
A fourth Eriksberg soli was released 1944 – “Pick it Easy” (no available transcription yet), according to a card catalogue at the Swedish Royal Library (Kungliga Biblioteket) – link: https://kortkataloger.kb.se/musik/8788/
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 3 March 1943
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, Jan-1938, Dec-1936
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, March 1939
Epiphone ads, “Orkesterjournalen” no 10 Oct 1937, 1939
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, Sept-1940, Dec-1942
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 7 July 1938, no 2 1938
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, July-1975; Swedish TV program, June-1975
Eriksberg OJ article July-1975 in it´s entirety (in Swedish!)
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, Eriksberg obituary July 1976
Eriksberg obituary, OJ July-1976, in it´s entirety (in Swedish!)
Stiberg, with Kay-Tone “Emperor” guitar (photo studio Lenkert)
Stiberg, with Gibson guitar & amp, 1941 ad
Stiberg – “Guitar Blues”, recorded 1941, sheet music 1943
Eriksberg/Stiberg – “Guitar School”, printed in Stockholm 1942. New edition printed in Denmark 1951, now added with four solo transcriptions by Stiberg! All four titles are from the last recordings of the “Swedish Hot Quintet”, Stockholm May 1941 (Telefunken). The quintet was now without the violin of Emil Iwring, but added clarinet (Björling) and Stiberg on electric guitar!
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 12 Dec 1942, no 8 Aug 1942
Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, Okt-1939, Jan 1941
(Opus 5 article continued:) Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 2 Jan 1941, no 9 Sept 1944
Correspondence course, Stockholm 1944! With typed text, handwritten notation! 14 pages of basic music theory, and basic guitar playing tutoring! Letter 4 of…..?
Ads for the correspondence course above, Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, between Dec 1943- Sept 1944
Stiberg plays guitar in a Swedish short movie (32min) with “The Seymour Sonora Orkester”. Movie: “Gatans Serenad”, 1941 (eng.”Serenade of the Street”). Stiberg is seen soloing on his Kay-Tone guitar in 7 seconds – time 13min40sec-13min47sec!
Link movie “Gatans Serenad”:https://www.filmarkivet.se/movies/gatans-serenad/
Eriksberg is seen playing chords (only accompanying, time 5min06sec-6min48sec) in Swedish short movie “Med Flyg Till Sjunde Himlen”, 16 min, 1949 (eng.”By Plane To Seventh Heaven”). Playing on his Kay-Tone guitar behind vocalists in “Allan Hedbergs Hawaiian Ensemble”.
Link movie “Med Flyg Till Sjunde Himlen”: https://www.filmarkivet.se/movies/med-flyg-till-sjunde-himlen-en-musikalisk-rapsodi/
Emperor strings ads, Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen” between May 1942-Nov 1943
Stiberg, career “downhill”, OJ Jan 1953; guit.mic ad OJ Feb 1951 (with his Kay-Tone guitar)
Stiberg article in Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 11 Nov 1984, on account of his 70th birthday!
Stiberg article, OJ Nov-84 in it´s entirety (in Swedish!)
Stiberg obituary in Swedish Jazz Magazine “Orkesterjournalen”, no 9 Sept 1992, with guitar Levin “Solist”; Levin catalogue 1948 – archtops now with cutaway!
Levin guitars with “sväng” gives you five extra frets! OJ Jan-1948; “Plankan”-Solid body, 1st ad in Sweden, OJ Jan-1955!
Jazz Guitar Duets 
