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That's a good suggestion Richard.

Tried with the Reverb photo (too hot here today to be out ) but no direct hit came up.

Gosh, your one looks even prettier, Poul.

https://reverb.com/en-pt/item/78864084-mandolin-mandoline-vintage-antique-very-pretty-face-inlay-and-mother-of-pearl

Any ideas on the origin?

Thanks Poul - that clears it up (hadn't realised that your purchase was a miniature).

Nicola Didone also acquired fame outside his native Italy as can be seen in the Music Trade Review of 1907.



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Worth noting in the ad. above that this master mandolinist and luthier seems to guarantee that after 6 months of study at his school, you would be able to play on the mandolin any piece of music...

Mind-boggling scale!
Poul, could you do a photo including some object whose size we might all know - a paperback book for example?

The Naples Exhibition where he won the gold medal could refer to the big Labour Exhibition for the opening of Galleria Umberto 1 in 1890.



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Scotland is a part of Great Britain.

Nexus, I have a similar Portuguese mandolin I bought new over 30 years ago (the receipt is in escudos not euros!) but I only really took up the instrument last year. I think mine was made by...

Just occured to me that photos are better as a record here than videos which can later disappear.

Here are some pics of it as it is, though I do still need to clean the soundboard.
I believe...

I intend to - probably in a video.

And it has indeed been priceless advice - thanks everybody.

John, Lord of the Strings in the Netherlands stock La Bella and their postage is more reasonable for me (€5.95 to Portugal vs €20 for Thomann) so probably also for you.

Hi Mark,

I'm in Europe and would like to take part.

Recently acquired my first bowl-back - a delightful sounding 1896 Neapolitan mandolin by Angara & D'Isanto (Allievi Di Vinaccia). It’s quite a different sound and playing experience.

As this is...

I have enjoyed reading the Dave Grisman Mandolin Workshop articles from the old Frets magazine that can now be purchased from Acoustic Disk.

As a fairly new mandolin player, Aaron's suggested approach using the mandolin keyboard has worked well for me on swing jazz tunes. When I started out I did try a flashcard approach and memorizing a...

If you make it as far as Cork, its worth checking out the Corner House pub.
Monday nights they usually have a session with members of the Lee Valley String Band playing IT and Old Timey tunes,...

This Musescore chart seems useful.

In addition to writing novels like Erasure, adopted for Oscar-winning film American Fiction, he plays jazz and repairs old mandolins.

If it were me I would keep it authentic - there's a hundred years of history there!

I have an "authentic" 1896 Neapolitan mandolin I play for pleasure at home and a solid body electric with a...

I just stumbled upon the archives of the Banjo Mandolin and Guitar that folded in the 70s.https://classic-banjo.ning.com/page/bmg-magazines

A treasure house of interesting material - who knew that...

@tmsweeney It had never occurred to me that mandolin could be successful in an Eno-like context so your piece above is a real eye-opener.
Thanks!

I play electric because its the best way to be heard when playing regularly with trumpet, sax or clarinet along with guitars going through the PA.
(Plus like suggested, its a way to relive...

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I for one am grateful for the thread being reactivated as it pointed me to the work by Jon Springall on Martin Jonas's Vinaccia and the Chopin pieces.