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Found on craigslist Baltimore.
https://baltimore.craigslist.org/msg/d/elkridge-mandolin-vintagec/7474644616.html

I was very fortunate to play a mandocello signed by him for 20+ years with the Baltimore MO. Conrad Gebelien, founder of the orchestra, was its first owner....

I called the phone number on the ad. The owner said the receipt came with with bowlback. He's now set straight.
I did tell him he may want to relist only the receipt, because there are people who...

The picture above was just a sample of what the ad. There were 8(!) pictures of catalogs. Fender, Guild, Gibson, Gretsch (drums, amps and guitars), to name a few.
It was awesome to see, and they...

Unfortunately, all the music I saw was in standard notation.


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Well. maybe electric mandolin.
FYI.
Language gets a bit saucy towards the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oo2H-W7d6A

The ad sez the number is 11881.
According to the Mandolin Archive, the first number should be a 7 to be in the Loar Period.
Notice which CL it's located. It didn't wander too far from home.
I...

That's what I would call it.
Searching in youtube for Ovation mandocello and found this video.
Short, but kinda cool, IMHO.
I don't know the player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuK0o6_q3OU

I found references to this collection in various Mandolincafe threads, but not the article. It includes individual pictures of his Loar-signed quartet of instruments. They are an L-5 guitar, F-5...

This is a dealer site I visit often. If you decide to poke around you'll see why.
I post this FYI and for your enjoyment only.
No interest here. Usual caveats.
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Reasonable price, IM(NS)HO.

http://batonrouge.craigslist.org/msg/4402465401.html

FYI only.

LOTS of folks are looking for mandocellos these days.

Not mine, no interest here, usual caveats.
The last one I posted turned out to be a scam.
Here's hoping I'm not posting another one....

A friend of mine bought an Eastman m'cello for the same reason: I gotta get a mandocello. He had a luthier put a new nut and bridge on it that were more in line with a vintage Gibson m'cello and...

They ARE awesome instruments. I've been playing one in a mandolin orchestra since 1989. I volunteered to play it.
Please listen to one that has been making music with a variety of instruments, pro...

As the title sez, I found this link on a friend's FB page.
I could not think of another forum on m'cafe to put this, so I put it here coz the page is from a luthier's website.
All I can say is...

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My father-in-law gave me a mandolin today that someone gave him @ 40 years ago.
It's in the same condition the day he got it.
It's rather beat, but it's still a looker. There is a lot of...

As to the mandocello Mr. Marshall is playing in the vid, I don't know what woods were used.
But I sense Mr. Marshall could make a plywood instrument using wire wrap for fret wire sound good.
More...

Eugene
RE:There were mando-cellos built on archtop guitar bodies by Gibson and others

Here's I play with the Baltimore MO.
It belongs to the BMO.
It's a Loar-sign K-5 from 1924.
Greg

Any takers?

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