Looks like the "bowl" and neck are carved from one piece of wood:
http://www.worldfrets.com/todaro_mandolin.html
Interesting design. I would be curious to hear and play one of these.
Sean
Here is an interesting new mandolin design
Looks like the "bowl" and neck are carved from one piece of wood:
http://www.worldfrets.com/todaro_mandolin.html
Interesting design. I would be curious to hear and play one of these.
Sean
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Maybe this has been done before? Here are some pics:
Sean
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A guy named Orville Gibson did that carved one piece body and neck thing years ago.
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That's how a saz baglama is built. Interesting crossover of the technique, but not too surprising. If this instrument is indeed from South America rather than Turkey, that's even more interesting, but still not too surprising, considering how simple the construction technique is.
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Interesting, I forgot about old Orville! Seems like a good way to waste a lot of wood and also make future repairs to the neck a bit of a headache.
Sean
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That is Joe Todaro who imports all sorts of instruments from Bolivia. He goes down there and connects with the luthiers and brings them back to the US. I bought a nice medium-grade charango from him at one of the Philadelphia Guitar Shows many years ago. I don't know about the mandolin tradition in the Andean region but it is possible that they are building them using the same techniques for building non-armadillo-backed charangos.
Joe brought a sample of one of these mandolins to the 2004 CMSA convention in Philadelphia. His web site says they will be available in fall of 2004, so I would not be surprised that he didn't get much interest in these.
I am proud to offer a mandolin whose body and neck are carved from one piece of wood similiar to our Akuleles. I have been working on this design for several years and expect instruments to be available by fall of 2004. The body is constructed from solid Bolivian hardwood, the top is solid spruce and the fingerboard ebony. The sound of this mandolin is powerful and balanced unlike the typical sound produced by most bowl back mandolins. This mandolin has enough volume to play Bluegrass and can offer a variety of tones that also make it an excellent choice for classical and folk players. Estimated street price $800.
Joseph Todaro
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I remember reading about him somewhere. Whatever happened to him?Originally Posted by MikeEdgerton
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In fairness to my momentary lack of reason, Orville never carved anything quite that deep! There has to be a pretty big leap of faith that everything internally is going to check out AOK once you begin hacking away at a log big enough to make a mandolin this size!
Sean
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Also, if things got really bad, I could cook and eat my Ramen noodles out of one of these!
Sean
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After first slicing sheets of noodle dough with the strings, I suppose.
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That's funny, because people who see my mandolin-banjo think it's made out of a pressure cooker.
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