Here´s a very interesting new bowlback design by Corrado Giacomel and also some wonderful mandolin playing. They seem to be archtop instruments with a bowl that looks somewhat flatter than a traditional one and they still have "sides". The neck joints also look like the ones on archtop mandolins. To me it sounds sweeter than a common archtop with less midrange accentuation and a less percussive attack.
I´d really like to hear it being played solo. Unfortunately there´s no recording of the one with the oval hole.
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