Here is a fun exercise:
How many different F5’s and other stringed instruments can you identify in these seven Vitaphone film shorts?
https://youtu.be/epcEd3qeHAQ
Vitaphone films have the soundtrack on a phonograph disc as opposed to on the film so things are not always perfectly synchronized.
How does he play standing without a strap?
Check out the short at about 1:15:00 where he is playing a 1930’s F5 with the block inlays. He plays many different F5’s throughout these films and even a Lyon and Healy mandolin or mandola with the scroll peghead and two points.
Have fun and list your discoveries below!
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