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    At least the instructor in the video is right twice on each string!

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    Three times if you count the tritone, still not a great success rate.
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    That just proves that one should never do bong hits before recording an "instructional video".
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    Never seen a backwards fret job.

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    Y'all are overlooking an important advantage... Acccording to the seller:

    "There is no fret wear."

    Imagine that! "No fret wear", almost like it's brand new & never been played, hmm I wonder what could possibly be the reason for that?

    Seller further states:

    "...would play perfectly with a fret level."

    Oh, well heck if that is all it needs to "play perfectly", someone better buy it quick, wouldn't want to let such a golden opportunity get away.

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    It might be fun to learn some weird fingering to get just one (specially chosen) tune out of it, then hand it to someone else to play.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobalt View Post
    It might be fun to learn some weird fingering to get just one (specially chosen) tune out of it, then hand it to someone else to play.

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    I can now safely relinquish my long-held title of 'World's Most Useless Mandolin Player' . . . that 'instructor' has me beat my a mile!

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    Time to bring another oddball instrument to this lovely thread. This on French eBay. The French are especially creative in the oddity department, the most famous of which are the Gelas instruments. This one is by a German who lives on the French border and had some interesting ideas. This is his fretted 6-string version. According to the seller, "These came in several varieties – some had six strings, others eight, some with frets, others unfretted. He called the unfretted versions Violins and the fretted type Mandolin Violins."
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    I found the site that had the photo of Engelbert and his wife playing plus the catalog page for these instruments. There are other variants on the wall behind them. He plays the 8-string violin version and his wife the mandolin.

    He is listed in my Henley violin book as only "Resident at Völklingen (Saar). 1924."
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    Somebody must already have made the point that F styles must have been out of the world oddities when they first appeared.

    Yeah, I didn't read the entire thread

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    The idea lives on: Grand concert mandolin by Brian Dean:
    https://reverb.com/item/5964228-gran...-by-brian-dean
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    Just what I don't need, another oddball, but lucky I did get outbid. Anybody win this beauty on Shopgoodwill.com? Workmanship is a little dodgy but interesting. Hard to tell if it is playable or even sounds like anything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    Somehow I must have missed this request for more pics. Here they are.
    That design of f-holes where it's on two levels (not sure how else to describe it) reminds me of the Hardingfele or Hardanger fiddle from Norway. They often have this same design of f-holes:


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    Just what I don't need, another oddball, but lucky I did get outbid. Anybody win this beauty on Shopgoodwill.com? Workmanship is a little dodgy but interesting. Hard to tell if it is playable or even sounds like anything.
    That's a nice citole shape!
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    Jo: yes that mandolin was made by a Norwegian to imitate the style of a hardingfele and has sympathetic strings.
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    Jo: yes that mandolin was made by a Norwegian to imitate the style of a hardingfele and has sympathetic strings.
    That explains it!

    Here's another star-shaped mandolin-banjo that's similar but in less playable condition than the one previously posted:


    Here's a 5 string fretless mandolin:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve VandeWater View Post
    I'm surprised that I haven't posted this one to this thread before, but here it is...again....my 4 stringer that I made out of concrete. It's recently been signed by both Gibson's David Harvey and the great Mike Compton. I lost Don Julin and Billy Strings' signatures when I re-topped it awhile back and put a pickup in it.
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    Concrete? :O Is it as heavy as one might assume? I'd love to hear how it sounds too.
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    Another star-shaped one I just saw on wikipedia:
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    Well, it has been quite awhile that this site has been updated. Here's a wonderful odd-looking violinish and very red mandolin made by James Pappas in Newark, DE in 1957 currently on eBay. I am impressed by the graceful(?) scrolled headstock. Go for it, you treasure hunters... https://www.ebay.com/itm/225579884363




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    Quote Originally Posted by AndyV View Post

    Somebody must already have made the point that F styles must have been out of the world oddities when they first appeared.
    I agree, but it wasn't without context. The waning art nouveau movement and the beginning art deco movement were in the vocabulary of many architects, designers, decorators etc. In that context the F style with its curly bits and pointy extrusions would not have been entirely out of this world or unexpected. That is my reading of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dusepo View Post
    Another star-shaped one I just saw on wikipedia:
    I guess I wasn't keeping up with this thread ... but now it's back. (Thanks, Jim, for your habit of doing that now and then.) So somehow I missed this. And what Jo said. You saw this on wikipedia? I'm stumped as to in what context. Hardly seems exemplary or otherwise instructive. I do like what the description says: "forma anomala" - in English, "abnormal shape." It certainly is!

    Anyway, I tried searching for "mandolino" at the wiki but didn't get too far. Though I did find a reference to this oddty by that name. My best guess is Les was messing with his best guess of what one might do with a mandolin - other than play one, you know, because he seemed intent on merely emulating one. Interesting to see the video creator also avoided the mandolin, eschewing any such imagery, while including many other instruments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve VandeWater View Post
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    Wow, how heavy is it? :o
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    Here's a 5 string fretless mandolin:
    I guess that's for playing oud music.

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    This just landed in the classifieds.....

    https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/211293#211293

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    A bunch of stuff with four strings

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    Quote Originally Posted by Charles E. View Post
    This just landed in the classifieds.....

    https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/211293#211293

    Wow! Not without its charms. I am particularly intrigued by its take on the scroll. An homage to the traditional scroll that I kind of like. Though you can't use it for a strap hanger.
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