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While this has nothing to do with jazz, my grandfather played mandolin and gave it up in 1917 when he went into the navy for WWI. I visited a cousin in 2017 and she asked me if I knew what this...

My first love: Gibson EM150, my first mandolin, which I painted an old boy's shed for. I still play it.

Schwab 5-string with dual humbuckers through a fender twin. Flange, chorus, fuzz,...

I don't have any experience with modern high end instruments,

but I love my 40's Strad-O-Lin, and my ratty '13 F2, and my Mid Mo M-15, and my Octofone.... and ....

I guess I love them all...

1. Girouard Concert A - hands down the best mandolin I've ever owned and it's not going anywhere! Has cured MAS 100%, in December I've had it for 4 years and in that entire time I haven't considered...

Most of the mandolins that are my favorites are those that listed in my signature below. The only ones missing from that list are my 1920's asymmetrical Washburn/Lyon & Healy Pro A and my 1904 No.3...

The first good one I bought 35 years ago has always been the best: A 1917 Gibson F-4.
Strange how that goes. Perhaps the best guitar I ever had was purchased around the same time. I still have...

Hi Scot63, I've restored on Mandolute and have two more in line for eventual restoration. Here are pics of the bridges I've seen.

1) 201613 This is what I have seen on multiple Weymann...

As I recall the mandolute I used to own had a bridge that was similar to the long, thin, low, non-adjustable bridges normally found on bowl-backs. I'm relying on 40+ year-old memory, though.

I...

Mike..."taterbug" falls in there somewhere just South of "Gibby" as a virtual reproduction of fingernails on a chalkboard.

Gibby is certainly worse, but the margin is close.

There are others...

Milton Avery's art sometimes featured mandolins-- and you can find at least two previous instances of Avery's art being featured in MC threads. However, no one has ever posted his "Mando-cello...

Florian,

The only mandocello methods of which I am aware were written over a century ago, Bickford included. I think a new method, while it would be a far cry from best-sellerdom, would be...

Dear mandocello players,

Perhaps you know my projects on ko-fi.com, where I write some new books for mandolin, mandocello, mandola and octave mandolin.

I got a couple of emails asking about a...

I submit for your perusal, critiques, and perhaps even enjoyment, what I have so far in my 2020 new year’s resolution: to record the complete Bach Cello Suites on mandolin, publishing each next...

Both my dad and my former white face A-3 were born in 1919. I played that mandolin for many years then got my 23 A2 and sold the 19. I should have kept it. Oh well. Now they are both gone, sadly....

I found my first mandolin, a 1917 Gibson "pumpkin top" A-1, in the attic of the house where my grandfather and great-aunt lived in Pike NY. We were clearing the house out to put it on the market; he...

If I'd known how much fun it was to be in my 70's and retired, I'd have retired in my 20's...

Every musical instrument manufacturer's had ups and downs: Fender guitars when CBS owned the company,...

Sonatas and partitas for solo violin (BWV 1001–1006) by Bach is an exiting material to work on. The „Sei Solo a Violino senza Basso accompagnato“ (Six Solos for Violin Without Bass Accompaniment), as...

Here´s a short video of my german A Style mandolin. Mario Hartmann is a friend of mine and does build guitars and mandolins- in the evenings :D This one is from 2017.

What do you think about it?
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Well, using the term "squander" is judging, at least a bit. Unless there's some actual improvement -- as estimated by an unbiased observer -- I think spending for the sake of spending, just because...

It's been happening to me for years. I think it's a fairly normal occurrence. :cool:

I will note that it has never happened to Chuck Norris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiBTwwe61Nc

1779 Johannes Vinaccia Mandolone

I especially like the music sheets attached to the back of the bowl. I wonder what piece that is. Mght have to try playing what I can see of it.

Fair play to you. Nice mandolin.
I have a reputation around here as being a "doubting Thomas" in regards to the knee-jerk Larson Brothers attributions to certain label mandolins, Mauer among them....

It's expensive. The price tag in that photo says $750! Someone's dreamin' . . . I recently bought one of those in an auction in UK for a lot less than that. Here's some photos
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I got this one, and it arrived today, all in good shape. Heavy playing wear, but solid condition and no real damage.

First impressions: good instrument, standard turn-of-century tenor mandola,...