True, but it'd be one way to get that high lonesome sound. :disbelief:
True, but it'd be one way to get that high lonesome sound. :disbelief:
The old Forum software has been reinstalled. But I wasn't done meddling just yet. I saw some things in the other version and decided they had their place here so changes have occurred in the...
A while back, at a mixed jam, mixed in that we allowed a banjo or two, but did not cater to them by staying one key. With every key change they had to change tuning.
I poked fun at them, saying...
Looking at the two I can't help but see the early Simpsons (Tracey Ullman Show) and the tamed down later Simpsons drawing. Brash and then smoothed out and less likely to offend.
During the baroque period (1600–1730), and they were strung with gut. In fact I've just found on Wikipedia this original 6 course gut-strung bandurria from the 18th century:...
Snakeheads are wonderful. I have owned an A-Jr and I liked it but not as much as my 23 A-2. OTOH I have died when playing a few A-4 snakeheads. On the third hand, the one A I played was a 1920 A...
Setup is everything. I love old snakeheads.
They are being sold by Matthew Woods, an avid collector, who is also the seller of the Gelas set of instruments. I guess he is de-accessing some of his collection. A year or so ago he was posting...
Here are some shots of a Benko mandocello: 181462181463181464181465181466181467
It takes an oddity to know an oddity and I love oddities too Will.
Technically, yes, but try telling that to Knutsen, the Larsons, Gibson and the other makers or to Gregg Miner.
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Amazing -- like the Pollman instruments but with a carved-top mandola body. What does the label say, if anything? It's the "lyre" label which would make it early (Gruhn says 1902-08), assuming that...
I'm another who needs a good bright 'clang" out if a set of strings.
I've been using the DR MD11on my archtop Davidson (which are Phos Bronze but very bright) and the Dogal Calace roundwound...
On Denver Craigslist.
NFI
https://denver.craigslist.org/msg/d/denver-1925-martin-ak-koa-mandolin/7009834334.html
180884
https://www.ebay.de/itm/Mandoline-18-Eme-Antonio-Monzino/153696431085
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/9gEAAOSwVTldsW6E/s-l1600.jpg
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/3x8AAOSwBq9dsW7f/s-l1600.jpg
https://www.ebay.de/itm/Vintage-rare-Gibson-Model-DY-Army-Navy-mandolin-1918-hardcase-Mandoline/223719599189?hash=item3416ba2c55:g:~kUAAOSwjnJdWt0n
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We in the classical department here call them mandolinos. Really they are sort of a hybrid mandolin, sometimes regional. More info here on wikipedia.
The original baroque mandolino had 6 courses...
The top has cracks. It's more like the cracks have part of a top.
Not having access to the Washburn books mentioned in Tim's post, I am wondering if someone can tell me the year for this L&H based on #2356 found on the label:
180132
Sorry for the orientation...
Please allow for reviving this thread. I just got my L&H Style C back from a friend who refretted it and levelled the finger board. Looks like the finger board is a replacement, as there is no sign...
+1 for Sawchyn Beavertail
https://www.sawchyn.com/index.php/mandolins/beaver-tails
Estimated string gauges and tensions for Gibson mandocello tuned G2G2 D3D3 A3A3 D4D4:
24.5" scale length
D4 course: 0.013" plain steel
20lb tension
A3 course: 0.018" phosphor bronze round...
It looks like the French have solved this. Viva la France! :cool:
Dibbs on "AND"!
One. But I have my eyes open.