On Reverb, an Ibanez mandolin. I personally haven't seen one of these before.
https://reverb.com/item/36221856-iba...-1982-sunburst
On Reverb, an Ibanez mandolin. I personally haven't seen one of these before.
https://reverb.com/item/36221856-iba...-1982-sunburst
Old Hometown, Cabin Fever String Band
Well known design, always know as the ' Mickey Mouse ear '
Dave H
Eastman 615 mandola
2011 Weber Bitteroot A5
2012 Weber Bitteroot F5
Eastman MD 915V
Gibson F9
2016 Capek ' Bob ' standard scale tenor banjo
Ibanez Artist 5 string
2001 Paul Shippey oval hole
Or the "lump scroll," one of Gibson's less inspired ideas -- the F-model silhouette without all that expensive actual hand-work. At least this one pays a little respect to an actual scroll, by having a groove outlining where the real scroll should have been sculpted.
Always interesting when someone "knocks off" an inferior model. On the other hand, consensus is that the scroll's pretty acoustically irrelevant, so a "lump scroll" Mickey Mouse mandolin could play and sound decent.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
Just wondering when it was built - can’t find any reference to in the usual sources. Don’t remember seeing one before.
Those F-holes are positioned low and practically off the edge of the body. Strange.
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
They had to work real hard to get the F holes in the right spot for the bridge. Being a lump scroll is bad enough, the rest is a little strange, right down to the tuners. Almost like copies of a Kluson model.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Do the Gibson "lumpys" have a strap button on the faux scroll? Weird.
I like the A shape peg head. Reminds me of that newer Epiphone Masterbuild Oval.
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