Re: Best Oval Hole A Mandolins for Orchestra Playing?
Originally Posted by
Sherry Cadenhead
The orchestra doesn't exist yet, so I have no idea about the instruments.
If my experience with the Bloomfield (NJ) Mandolin Orchestra is any help, what brand/model/style/age of instrument is about the least of considerations.
First, you need players. Then, players who are willing to show up. Then, players who are willing to work & learn in a possibly new-to-many -me included- environment (says the '60s rocker!). If you get that far, then things like talent and cohesion will come with time - specific instruments be hanged!
FWIW, we have an array ranging from typical teens/20s Gibson As, an early F5 Loar copy or two, some Martins, a classic-era Kalamazoo, couple of Kays, Kentuckys, Breedlove, some nondescript but descent bowlbacks, a nice custom German (?) flatback, even a home-grown (some decades ago) "lump-scroll" mandocello. Plus more than one Carlo Robelli (Sam Ash import house brand). Varied indeed! Maybe most noteworthy is that the old(er!)-timers say that the group has never sounded better. (O/T covid, this would have been year #6 for me.)
Last edited by EdHanrahan; Feb-15-2021 at 9:30pm.
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