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    Default Re: Mandolins with violin-style construction are nothing new...

    I wonder if that is a repurposed viola neck attached to the body? That might explain the ebony "button graft".

    It would also help with the discrepancy I see with the skill of the scroll carving and the crudeness of the F holes.
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    Default Re: Mandolins with violin-style construction are nothing new...

    For your entertainment, another violin-like mandolin by Jerome Thibouville Lamy (JTL - France) labelled a Violaline.

    From the Met Museum site (quote only - I am not sure where I found the photos)
    The violaline is a four double-course mandolin with a violin or viola d’amore shaped body. The arched top and back of the violin family of instruments is a very sturdy instrument design and helps to project the sound of the mandolin. This design was created by Georges Contal around 1900 in Paris. Similarly, Orville Gibson, working in the 1890s in Kalamazoo, Michigan, based the design of his mandolins and guitars on violin construction techniques. This example has the form of a viola d’amore, with a carved figural head, and without the pointed corners of a violin body.
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    Default Re: Mandolins with violin-style construction are nothing new...

    Quote Originally Posted by Charles E. View Post
    I wonder if that is a repurposed viola neck attached to the body? That might explain the ebony "button graft".

    It would also help with the discrepancy I see with the skill of the scroll carving and the crudeness of the F holes.
    The inlay on the fretboard isn't stellar either.
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    Default Re: Mandolins with violin-style construction are nothing new...

    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    My Campanella A-5:

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    That is beautiful, Waverly tuners and all. Very nice.
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