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    It's so much fun to see everyone's instruments!! Michael, your cittern is absolutely gorgeous!! What a beauty!! Does it sound as good as it looks?
    I forgot to say that my baby is a Joe Foley bouzouk built in 1984 in Dublin. A huge thing but has a wonderful sound and I'm very satisfied with it. I think I'm the second user.

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    That's wild, Dan--thanks for the photo. I've never seen one of those.

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    Paul Hathway mandola
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    Fylde long-scale archtop bouzouki
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    McDonald Type 3 bouzouki/octave/GOM.

    (Psst! It's right there in the corner. (:-&gt )

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    Very nice instruments. How do you tune the Hathway mandola PseudoCelt?
    I really like the Foley zoukie. It looks ancient to me.
    And yes, the Tönjes cittern sounds superb. It has more of a mandolin Tone. It has a relative thin body compared to the bouzouki. The bouzouki is great. I play it much more than the cittern. It seems that I like four courses better than five. I like the slimmer neck, the better overview and it sounds fantastic over the whole range. Five courses are clearly the bigger compromise soundwise than the four course. You have to go to the limit with string gauges, especially on the high A.

    Here is my other CBOM, that I play very much:



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    It's a Chanticleer made in Norwich.



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    Quote Originally Posted by (aldimandola @ Feb. 11 2008, 18:02)
    How do you tune the Hathway mandola PseudoCelt?
    I've mostly been using it to play around with open tunings. At the moment, it's tuned GDGD (mandolin pitch) with a combination of mandola and mandolin strings, so I can get AEAE with a capo on the second fret. The scale length is 16.5".

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    Recent action photo:



    Nothing fancy, but it suits me. #Andy Irvine tells me the strings I use are too heavy (I agree), but I have yet to find someone who can set it up the way I want it. #I had a Fishman Natural 1 put in it a couple of years ago, and I like it much better than I thought I would. #


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    Rick C,

    Isn't that a Fylde Octavius? I had one of those and loved it! Had it for maybe four years. Very cool. I never had a pickup in mine...

    I like those Fylde archtops, too! Mmboy. Our Culchies fiddler, TJ Hull, just got a Fylde Touchstone OM. Fyldes are nice.

    Michael, that reso' is a tenor tuned GDAE? Sweeet.

    Thanks,

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    Here's a "family portrait" I posted a while ago:

    http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin....ortrait

    The MacDonald has since found a new home. I may be ready to part with the Forster and the Tobin later this year (I'm having a new custom instrument built for me by J. Thomas Davis and I'll need the funds...), so if anyone thinks they might be interested, let me know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by (sliabhstv @ Feb. 11 2008, 21:46)
    Rick C,

    Isn't that a Fylde Octavius? #I had one of those and loved it! #Had it for maybe four years. #Very cool. #I never had a pickup in mine...

    I like those Fylde archtops, too! #Mmboy. # Our Culchies fiddler, TJ Hull, just got a Fylde Touchstone OM. #Fyldes are nice.

    Michael, that reso' is a tenor tuned GDAE? #Sweeet.

    Thanks,

    stv
    Sure is, Steve. One of the first things I did when I got it was have the nut filed to have the strings in unison. It's not loud enough to be a session weapon (that's where the National mando comes in!), but it's a great performance instrument. Or small sessions...


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    Quote Originally Posted by (danb @ Feb. 11 2008, 15:06)
    Quote Originally Posted by (catmandu2 @ Feb. 11 2008, 01:50)
    I just got this custom Paul Doyle last week. #Paul calls it a "festooned" cittern.
    The body shape is clearly modelled after an Epiphone Recording Tenor Guitar (Image from Banana's site)

    Holy smokes, Dan! A tenor with a pompadour!


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    I have written some unedited stuff in my bad English with photos on my citterns....

    Hispanic citterns in the Americas http://festivalpo.blogspot.com/2006....as.html
    my CBOMs
    http://festivalpo.blogspot.com/2008/...kis-et-al.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by (sliabhstv @ Feb. 11 2008, 21:46)
    Michael, that reso' is a tenor tuned GDAE? Sweeet.
    sliabhstv,

    yes, it's tuned GDAE most of the time. For slide playing I use GDGD sometimes and GDAD for some bouzouki playing.

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    Thanks lucho, interesting material. There's a big diversity of stringed instruments in latin america that seems to be partly unexplored. I read about the Bandola in your articel. Isn't there also a Bandola from Venezuela that has four strings and is tuned in fifths?

    Btw.: Greetings from my friend Pepe, who lives here in our house. He comes from Santiago de Chile.

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    Hey Rick C,

    I got mine from a kid in far northern Ontario, and it was in octaves, too, and yep, that was the first thing I did with it as well, change it over to unisons with a new nut & bridge.

    Mine was pretty loud, enough so to annoy some session pals... #(I guess that was -me- playing too loudly and not -it-... # # #)

    I put a clear pickguard on mine with that StewMac sheet plastic, too.

    It's nice to see one again!

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    Here is the best pic I have of my Crump Style 1G (guitar body zouk), the Sobell I just sold, and my Rozawood 2-pointer amidst all the other toys:






    Between the Crump and Rozawood the Sobell never got played... So, off it went!

    The Rozawood is a dream to play and is a pretty danged good banjo killer.

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    A closer shot of the Rozawood...


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    Hey Gerry,

    What's the guitar between the Rozawood and the Tacoma ?

    Nice collection!

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    Hello Gerry,

    yes, this is a nice collection. I knew this photo before. It's fun to look at it and trying to figure out what is what. It's very interesting that you preferred the Rozawood to the Sobell, wouldn't have expected this. Would you like to give a more detailed comparison between the two?
    I know the Rozawood people, they are on the Frankfurt Music Fair every year. I played a Octave Mando, but it had a very short scale and I found the strings, that were needed to drive the instrument, a bit to thick. They also had a L5-bodied Mandocello, that was impressive.

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    Michael: you asked Isn't there also a Bandola from Venezuela that has four strings and is tuned in fifths?
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    The andean bandola (12 to 16 stringed 6 course instrument) is a true cittern relative of the spanish bandurria. It uses steel strings and it is tuned in perfect 4ths. On the other hand, the bandola llanera uses 4 or some time 8 gut or nylon strings in 4 courses, and there are several kinds of this bandola llanera (http://www.mipunto.com/venezuelavirt...1/bandola.html) from the orinocan plains. They use several alternate tunings, most of them combining 4ths and 5ths like http://www.ebermudezcursos.unal.edu.co/bandlla.htm




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    My Jack Spira mandola. 17" scale length. Figured Gidgee bridge, fretboard, and peghead veneer. Sitka spruce top. Australian Blackwood sides and back. Mahogany neck. Rosette: rosewood, Hoop pine, Jarrah.







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    Here's the Brian Dean octave mandolin that I've recently gotten from Mike Buesseler, for whom it was built. #In the bass side is a sound port cut in Irish knotwork. #I think I have a detail pic of that, too...

    This is one of the original photos and since this I've made a couple of changes: #The ebony nut was chipped at the outside of the G course, so I had it replaced with a bone nut; #the handmade soft silver tailpiece has been replaced with a black chrome Allen MR-2.



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