Re: Odd old Puglisi harp mandolin
Originally Posted by
Bruce Clausen
If Salvador Dali had built mandolins...
Missed this when it was first posted.
That rosewood back is amazing, Bruce.
Mick
From David: "Seen them and played them
Nice tone...not nice enough to bother."
David...did the one you played have that offset soundhole?
I love Puglisi mandolins (and Sicilian mandolins in general) and this is one of the kookier design features I've seen.
I've got a Cristofaro bowlback with their classic "D" shaped soundhole...I think to boost the low end, but this one looks aligned to the non-existant hard / drone strings.
Super strange.
The Puglisi shop was inventive and often nutty, but they made very good mandolins by and large, so they must have had something on their minds when they came up with this.
I wonder what that was?
Mick
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