Oh yes. I understand now. Thank you!
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Oh yes. I understand now. Thank you!
Got at?
Not sure what that means. Typo?
Ah. Thanks. So they are. Why those frets?
Another question: Why is there a "K" on the headstock? Is that "K" for Kluson tuners, which might be on the instrument? (There's no marking to identify...
OP here.
Thanks for the clarification on F versus A on the cover of the instructional booklet. You can tell I'm new to this.
I'm not surprised that it's a different model than what's in the...
Thanks for the explanation, photo, and link. The recording gave me hope that someday I'll be able to play this one and it will sound like a mandolin. (Right now, I know how to play a G-C-D...
Thanks! Two questions (I know very little about mandolins) ...
1. What is a crystalline finish?
2. What's the binding?
I'm glad to hear that yours plays well now. What work did it require?
Thanks!
In digging around, I found this article. Based on that, and your estimate, this would have been during the 33 years when Sears owned the company.
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I have a flat back/flat top A-style mandolin that once belonged (family lore says) to my grandfather. It wouldn't hold a tune (bad nut) so I had the owner of a local guitar shop install a new one. He...