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142400142401Last year I bought a Carmelo Catania mandolin, model style Tipo 1K, Date of manufacture 1958 and the serial No.16063. It's basically a homage to Embergher with its distinctive sweeping...

It was made last year by Antonio Dattis in Italy www.antoniodattis.it as an exact replica. The only difference is that the ivory has been substituted with mammoth. The are a few more images on my...

Lincoln Drill Hall on Saturday June 16th. Free lunchtime concert 12-2pm with retiring collection. Enzo Puzzovio on baroque hurdy-gurdy and mandolino with Stewart McCoy accompanying on theorbo and...

Thanks Margriet but that video was not what I had in mind. I'm only playing the three open strings on that track.

I have one using the bass colascione on a ground bass with English guitar and...

Hello, Just spotted this short thread and feel I should add to it. I am the owner of that Franciolini colascione. It is in fact a bass colascione and after 'restoration' it plays beautifully, albeit...

Hi Bill, No sound clips just yet. I've only had it for three weeks and still getting to grips with it: comparing fingers to plectrum/quill; length of shoulder strap for playing height; playing seated...

Hi Arto, All I can say is that Antonio told me he had made a lute and used some 18th century soundboard and there was just enough left over for the mandolino. I can ask him to clarify.
I am not a...

Hi Jim, Yes, it's mine. I waited 18 months for it and that's not counting the twenty-odd years of drooling over the original! The soundboard is 18th century.

Three images of my new mandolino made by Antonio Dattis in Italy. Looks familiar? It's an exact copy of the 1752 Lambert mandolino in the V&A in London. The back is made of mammoth ivory and ebony....

Hello everyone, I've just joined the Café. I'm about to take up the baroque mandolino and puzzled about choice of plectrum for a gut-strung 6-course instrument. Some of the repertoire appears better...