Re: Larry Rice's Mando
That is a great picture --notice here you have two outstanding pickers not the least bothered, apparently, by the fingerboard extension that most of us regular morals remove or scallop on our mandolins.
I wonder if Larry's instrument wasn't either a copy or if it did start life as a Gibson it was re-graduated by someone like Randy Wood?
I say this because it certainly would have been unusual to a '59 Gibson F-5 to have come out of the box a strong good sounding mandolin -- this just was not a good period for the factory.
That said I have been told that even in this period a few good ones slip out the door at Kalamazoo -- I have never seen any. I have personally owned several F-models from that darker period and none of them were memorable.
Bernie
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