CBOMs of Note

[steve V. johnson]

Paddy Burgin's instruments are far too rare, but here's a five-course two-point that someone can have. I think it's really beautiful.

It's listed here in the Cafe Classifieds.


I don't feel that I can get around very well on five-course instruments, but this one has me goin'... woo.

stv

[Fliss]

Also, The Music Room in the UK has a used Manson cittern for sale (NFI). I've seen photos of his mandolins and octave mandolins, but I don't think I've seen a cittern before.

Patrick

Um, well, I hadn't even read this thread until a few moments ago, but I just did a search on Manson Cittern and this is what it showed up. The reason I searched on that is that I've just been to the Music Room this morning... no intention of buying an instrument, much less a cittern, and I think if this had been anything but a Manson I might have been able to resist it. As it is, the moment I heard it sing its first chord I was hooked, with the result that it kind of followed me home ....

Now all I have to do is learn how to play it! It's currently tuned CGCGC. I'm going to have some fun with this!

John, I don't think the headstock is ugly, but its a matter of personal taste, naturally! I'll take some photos and post them when I've had a chance to get better acquainted with this gorgeous instrument.

Fliss

[Tavy]

Um, well, I hadn't even read this thread until a few moments ago, but I just did a search on Manson Cittern and this is what it showed up. The reason I searched on that is that I've just been to the Music Room this morning... no intention of buying an instrument, much less a cittern, and I think if this had been anything but a Manson I might have been able to resist it. As it is, the moment I heard it sing its first chord I was hooked, with the result that it kind of followed me home ....

Now all I have to do is learn how to play it! It's currently tuned CGCGC. I'm going to have some fun with this!

John, I don't think the headstock is ugly, but its a matter of personal taste, naturally! I'll take some photos and post them when I've had a chance to get better acquainted with this gorgeous instrument.

Congratulations! Do post those photos when you have them, oh and how about some sound clips too

Glad I didn't put you off!

John.

[Tavy]

A rather nice Fylde cittern on ebay this week: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fylde-10-Strin...3A1|240%3A1318

[Richard Singleton]

a short necked Irish Bouzouki/cittern made by Stanley Pope on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=230332780912

[steve V. johnson]

Yeah, the 5-course Pope is the second Pope instrument on eBay in the last couple of weeks, interesting.

Thanks!

stv

[Tavy]

A 1970's Sobel cittern has just come up on ebay UK: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Stefan-Sobell-...3A1|240%3A1318

[Kyle Baker]

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Stefan-Sobell-Man...3A1|240%3A1318

A nice Sobell Mandola on ebay right now.

[steve V. johnson]

Nice Petersen Level One, with some additions, on eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Petersen-bouzouk...1%7C240%3A1318

I have no financial nor personal interest in this sale.

stv

[steve V. johnson]

Here's one you don't see every day!

There's a button to a sound clip in the text.

I have no personal nor financial interestin this item, nor in its sale.

Brach Tamburitza made in 1948 by Ivan Hlad in Chicago, posted on eBay.

Note the fret arrangement and the tuning. Wow.

stv

[Eddie Sheehy]

Hlad the Impaler?

[Eddie Sheehy]

Just picked this Weber Big Sky OM up today...

[steve V. johnson]

Is that the one from eBay, eh?

You waited til it got down to $3k and went for it? Man...!!!!!

I was hoping it would go lower before someone snapped it up... mebbe give me time to sell a kidney or some such madness ...

Congratulations!!!

(Email me when you get tired of it? )

I'd love to hear some of it. I've never met one of these that was healthy,
much less the Big Sky version. Woo.

Again congrats!

stv

[foldedpath]

Just picked this Weber Big Sky OM up today...

Congrats from a fellow F-hole Weber OM fan!

Hey, that makes my post about string gauges in the other thread even more relevant. Try D'Addario J80's first. If the E's seem a little weak, see what it sounds like with .013's on top. That's my sweet spot for this design and scale length (YMMV, standard disclaimers apply, etc.)

[Eddie Sheehy]

Steve, I hope to make it to the NJ-CBOM-O-RAMA. If I do I may bring it... depending on the Airline hassle - or at least a picture of it... or.. shake the hand that played it sort of thing...

[PseudoCelt]

There are two guitar-bodied CBOMs on ebay at the moment, both fairly pricey. The first is by Nigel Forster (Stefan Sobell's former apprentice). There is a Youtube video where he talks about it:



The other is a 10-stringer, made by Dave Gregory.

[Fliss]

I bet Nigel Forster's instruments are stunning, and I'd love to try one, but I'm really not keen on that bridge shape.

Fliss

[steve V. johnson]

Re: Forster

I just saw the Forster on ebay and rushed over here to find y'all already posted it. Excellent!

My friend Randy Clepper (who comes round the Cafe from time to time) has a zouk-bodied five-course by Forster. I think he got it from Nigel and I think I recall that it developed some problems that Randy had nicely fixed by J. Thomas Davis in Columbus OH.

It's a rompin' stompin' big thing and while it has the same characteristic complex treble as the Sobells, I remember the whole sound being much more ... uh ... 'forward', I'll say. More 'modern' sounding, perhaps.

It's made, as I recall, of Brazilian rosewood (aka "Rio") that has some really startling green in it, on the back, and with a very nice, tight-grained top, tho I don't recall what variety of spruce it it.

Randy's all about 5-course instrments and I get confused by 'em, so my time with it in my hands was ... incomplete, sorta. It's much more fun to listen to him play it.

stv

[steve V. johnson]

My friend Stephen Power of Ardagh, Co. Limerick, has put his Fylde long-scale arch-top bouzouo. up on eBay Ireland and here's a button to go right to the auction.

I played this instrument quite a few times and it's very, very nice. Stephen is the original owner
and it's been very well cared-for.

I have NFI, just spreading the word for a pal.

stv

[Eddie Sheehy]

Thanks Steve, I'll get right on it...
BTW, are you going to Zoukfest?

[steve V. johnson]

Hey Eddie,

"I'll get right on it..." LOL, excellent, thanks!

No zoukfest for me. I'm putting all the pennies in the jar for the Dublin, OH, Irish fest and the NE
CBOM tasting. If I get real lucky I might get a couple more regional festivals in, too ...

I want an all-solar motor home so I can just wander about the continent from pillar to post, session to fest...

stv

[Eddie Sheehy]

Well I won the Stephen Power's Fylde Long Scale Arch Top Bouzouki... now I have to get it over here...

[Eddie Sheehy]

Here are some pics... still waitin delivery...

[Leigh Coates]

Very nice! It's going to be a long wait,....

Leigh

[delsbrother]

That thing is HUGE!