Vintage 1950's Harlin Brothers Multi-Kord 6 string - 4 pedal steel guitar. The Multi-Kord is a significant guitar in the history of steel guitar. This was the first good working pedal steel guitar with a universal changer produced in significant numbers. This guitar remains the easiest steel guitar to change pedal setups on. The tuning possibilities on the Multi-Kord are limitless, unlike any guitar that has been made since. Having 6 strings and no knee levers makes it much easier to learn pedal work on. It’s a great cross-over designIt's a fairly simply, four pedal design that sounds great.  This is one of the earliest pedal steel guitars made, truly a quality museum piece in excellent condition. Collector or Player, this is one cool guitar. It is truly historical and represents it's time period well. The condition is quite good for 60 plus years.One of the best examples we’ve seen. Excellent original condition with OHSCEvery pedal on the Multi-Kord can easily be changed to raise or lower any or every string with just one pedal push. This means if you want to raise and lower every string in your tuning, you could make the change and tune it almost as fast as you can think about it. Of course, the more strings you change with the pedal, the harder the pedal is to push, but this rule applies to today’s Pedal Steel Guitars as well. The Multi-Kord is considered to be an earliest development of modern pedal steel guitars. A comment from Al Marcus:  Those and the Gibson Electra-Harp used the same type changer . They were both the first commercial usable pedal guitars. Gibson and Jay Harlin had a patent fight over itBack around 1954, I went to Indianapolis to the Harlin factory. I met Jay Harlan and he had a multi-Kord on a vibe stand on wheels with staggered pedals, much more than on the ones he sold. He was a very nice person, we went out and had lunch together, etc. I bought a Multi-Kord 8 string 6 pedal Changer head from him for $50. and used that to build me a 14 string steel. Put the changer in the middle and added high and low notes. I used 2 staggered 8 string pickups to cover it all. I played it for quite a few years. I already had my Gibson Electra-harp with the same type changer. They had a patent battle over that.The multiKord changer had lock nuts on the tuning screws and mechanically worked better than the Gibson and stayed in tune better. Fender came out with a similiar changer in 1972, The PS 210, which I had the pleasure of playing in Phoenix, Ariz.The last I heard both brothers are now dead. I think they were on to something as they could manufacture the tuning head and eliminated all that labor putting in rods, etc ,different tunings, adjusting , etc.as they do on the new guitars now. Very labor intensive now....Memories of the 50's..