This listing has it all really, read the blurb to cheer your New Year : -
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185235180...QAAOSw8x1gioU4
Max
This listing has it all really, read the blurb to cheer your New Year : -
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185235180...QAAOSw8x1gioU4
Max
Around here we have a saying: "Only a Givson is good enough!"
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
"Toon wood". Enough said. Thanks. This one made my day.
Brentrup Model 23, Boeh A5 #37, Gibson A Jr., Flatiron 1N, Coombe Classical flattop, Strad-O-Lin
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What’s the “1 pc 5 way Switch” all about?
This company's instrument come up for our entertainment here from time to time. They have actually been making instruments in Kolkata since the 1980s. Obviously also copying Gibson's logo. Oh well...
Jim
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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
They also make Strat shaped solid guitars, including the enticingly named 'Givson Santacruz', maybe it fell off an Ebay advert for one of those? I see their website lists '6 string Spanish guitars (with F-Hole)', which is fair enough - but also '6 string Spanish guitar (with R-Hole)', which is very close to a marketing fail Never mind, my Hindi's worse...
I also chuckled at toon wood, so also looked it up. So, educational.
Maybe some folks who know Hindi as first language also wonder whether there’s a wood called ‘tone’ that they keep seeing here?
Seems that there is a wood related to mahogany called toona or toon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toona
Toona, commonly known as redcedar,[2] toon (also spelled tun) or toona, tooni (in India) is a genus in the mahogany family, Meliaceae, native from Afghanistan south to India, and east to North Korea, Papua New Guineaand eastern Australia.
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
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
It’s sad it doesn’t have those real Gibson self tuners, “when only a Gibson is good enough”.
Then again, they probably didn’t have to crush a few truckloads of those quality instruments.
Not all the clams are at the beach
Arrow Manouche
Arrow Jazzbo
Arrow G
Clark 2 point
Gibson F5L
Gibson A-4
Ratliff CountryBoy A
I think it's safe to say that Roger Rabbit would gladly play some old-time toons on one of these.
I'm certainly impressed by the German Silver frets and the fancy plastic nut.
1913 F4, 1914 H1, 1915 A1, 1923 F2, 2007 Jim Rowland F5
Wow! That name is a blast from the past! I happened upon a Givson acoustic guitar at the Aloha Stadium Swap Meet in the mid-80s. Horrible sunburst finish, no center interior backstrip; just cleats, and an enthusiastic seller who assured me it was "vintage". If she had priced it under $10, I'd have bought it to hang on the wall!
Monte
Northfield F2S
Weber Yellowstone Octave F
URBASHI - yeah, like Pete Townsend!
Old Hometown, Cabin Fever String Band
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
I like the lump scroll. And the magnetic steel strings. It also has some intriguing innovative features, like a pickup with a tailpiece, and a "body of Lacquer." Just think of all the money you'll save on polish, with a body made of lacquer. Then there's the plastic bridge, which, as is accurately pointed out, "is not prevalent in many of the famous and high rated mandolins." But I'm disappointed at not seeing the 1 pc 5 way switch. I was psyched to see what that could do.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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I've had the privilege of playing some of their instruments, including this model electric mandolin, when we were testing product samples at a music wholesaler I worked for in the 1990-s - 2000's.
None of y'all are missing anything, they were decidedly "meh" at best and the QC was very undependable.
Maybe they have improved.
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