I'm sure this has been posted before, but it just showed up on a Facebook feed with a question about the "big instrument with all the strings" but I was too dazzled by the F-styles to pay much heed.
Anyway, here's another glimpse at this photo.
I'm sure this has been posted before, but it just showed up on a Facebook feed with a question about the "big instrument with all the strings" but I was too dazzled by the F-styles to pay much heed.
Anyway, here's another glimpse at this photo.
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
I think that might be an Orville harp guitar with that inlay on the headstock. I don't know. I also like the case n the foreground.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Early ones were Style R harp guitars. Then, like the one pictured is a Style U. Some were really fancy Im guessing in 1910 up to the 30s they had dot inlays. And the Gibson Script . I own a few. There different. Not everyones idea of something useful.
You own a few?!
And my wife gets worried if I have more than two mandolins.
Very cool photo by the way.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
When you look at the hairstyles, clothing and furniture, the Gibson scroll, headstock and detailing almost seems restrained in comparison.
But the design is very much of their era.
Great photo, Randi, thanks for sharing.
Mick
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Here's a U Style from 1910:
https://jakewildwood.blogspot.com/20...rp-guitar.html
Really different tailpiece and bridge(s), of course. What a handful!
That sounds fabulous, and great playing too.
Dave H
Eastman 615 mandola
2011 Weber Bitteroot A5
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Eastman MD 915V
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