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19th Century Tunes
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
Check. They did have their day in the proverbial Mandolin Serengeti.
I much prefer your 'zebra' locution to the appalling 'tater bug'.
I recall sometime back that there was a reference to a US bowl using walnut as one of the contrasting rib materials.
I've become particularly smitten by juglans nigra since my time in the great woody north.
Mick
Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
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'05 Cuisinart Toaster
'93 Chuck Taylor lowtops
'12 Stetson Open Road
'06 Bialetti expresso maker
'14 Irish Linen Ramon Puig
Yeah, my 1890's Washburn bowl-back mandola is alternating maple and rosewood. Don't think I've seen post-1920 bowl-backs with alternating woods, but of course my "research" is limited to whatever I happen to stumble across. Have seen mid-European "boat-backs" of later vintage with alternating wood staves.
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
1990 Sigma Dreadnought
1970 Aria Dreadnought Japan made
2012 Braund F-5 #5 made by Terry Braund - Corona,CA
2013 Kala Tenor Ukulele
I'm going to go out on a limb...but not very far.
I'll project that this is certainly US made, but likely from one of the East Coast builders and likely shows the handcraft of Italian or Italian-Americans in the shop....the soundhole detail and "Sienese" two-tone top edge banding suggest to me someone familiar with those very Italian characteristics of mandolins from this era. The exaggerated "open book" headstock shows an unadulterated Vinaccia influence as well.
Maybe from the Oscar Schmidt / Mid-Atlantic Rim orbit of makers.
We've seen that abalone encrusted fretboard often enough from Chicago folks, but this doesn't have a Chicago vibe to me.
For whatever going with a vibe is worth.
Best I've got right now...
Mick
Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
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'05 Cuisinart Toaster
'93 Chuck Taylor lowtops
'12 Stetson Open Road
'06 Bialetti expresso maker
'14 Irish Linen Ramon Puig
Thank you Mick, very much appreciated!!!
1990 Sigma Dreadnought
1970 Aria Dreadnought Japan made
2012 Braund F-5 #5 made by Terry Braund - Corona,CA
2013 Kala Tenor Ukulele
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