I'm so sorry but I uploaded the wrong file...in my haste. Here's the final copy. as attached. Thank you!
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see post #109 for correct final paper on Mr. Seville.
I'm so sorry but I uploaded the wrong file...in my haste. Here's the final copy. as attached. Thank you!
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see post #109 for correct final paper on Mr. Seville.
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I'm pleased to announce my investigation about the first American-made mandolin.
Thanks to the enormous support from many friends and a tremendous amount...
It looks to me to be made for Derr by Lyon & Healy. They probably asked for a mix of features like the custom headstock inlay and slightly fancier fretboard markers for a student-grade model. See...
I'm very very close to publishing my definitive history on the first American-made mandolin. I'm excited with a sense of trepidation! I think it will help future scholars to continue in the search...
I am not a great expert in US-made mandolins, but I agree that Derr was probably a reseller, rather than a maker. To me the instrument looks like a run of the mill turn of the century mandolin...
It really was a fun show and good to hear and see these two legends on stage together. David was playing a vintage Fern and not 'Crusher'. Definitely had a different tone than what I've heard from...
I think it is simply a mandolin, but as Jim suggests, with a somewhat inaccurate rendering of the bowl. It does look like what would have been an old-fashioned mandolin by the 1840s with the wooden...
Many artists have a hard time accurately portraying instruments. Take a look at some paintings of violins. They often (not always) get the proportions wrong.
Nice article, thanks for the interesting read!
Here it is:
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I guess you need big hair to play those English guitars. Here's another one.
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It seems to have five pairs of strings which probably makes it a Cittern. Reynolds was the top Portraitist of his time so I guess he'd have an eye for accurate detail. It's a great painting.
A careful reading of MTR's November 19, 1904, Vol. 39, No. 21 shows just how tight the race was with Bohmann given a slight edge over Lyon & Healy. see attached
Lots to digest and I agree on most points made; however, I will say that the original question should have been expressed in this way: the first musical instruments manufacturer who happened to also...
You bet he is credible. Clarence Lockhart Partee was the founder and an editor of "Cadenza." He sold it to Walter Jacobs in Boston around 1907.
Partee was a student of Bohmann but what we don't...
There is a Wikipedia article on this artist.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guan_Zilan
Back in the 1930s, Shanghai was a most cosmopolitan city and had been under western domination for decades- the British and US control was known as the Shanghai International Settlement. The city had...
That is a Gibson A yes. There were no copies at that time with that tailpiece. She could have picked it up there or she might have had the means to travel to the US.
Interesting band from Buenos Aires using bluegrass instruments to play Latin music.
I don't know them but like this video and heard from a Baltimore old time and bluegrass email I subscribe to.
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Good article, :mandosmiley: thanks!
Nice article about a mandolinist unknown to me. Thanks!
Possibly a "Style 4" made between 1898 and 1914.
I also think it's a Martin.
Looks a bit like a Martin but I'm no real expert.
If it’s just classical, Katerina Lichtenberg. But if we can stretch it, Dave appollon as well.