I didn't expect it to sound like a Gibson but was just comparing it. I have never played one of the double soundboard ones -- the only one I have seen is that heart-shaped one and that was unplayable.
I didn't expect it to sound like a Gibson but was just comparing it. I have never played one of the double soundboard ones -- the only one I have seen is that heart-shaped one and that was unplayable.
Jim
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Hi Jim-
The reason I asked was because there is a growing trend to dismiss Rauch's instruments as Gibson copies. That could not be further from the truth. Two publications, one recent and one not so recent, are the main cause of this false believe. Both publications are based on essentially no research about Dayton. I wasn't trying to be short with you.
The mandolin in the video is a Style A and its serial number (in the 300s) is documented in the database.
Thanks,
Paul
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Thanks for the info! A real world selling price for these is about a third of that. I wish her the best of luck though!
Jim
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Did you edit your post or am I just crazy? Lol
Did you say it was for sale at $1500?
That's why I said a real world selling price is about a third of that.
Yeah, I didn't want to break any rules...
She prices her instruments high, waits years for the prices to catch up, and then they are gone...
I really loved this mandolin, BTW...
You could see the 4-5 GPI spruce poking through the finish...
Cool construction...
Orcas Island Tonewoods
Free downloads of my mandolin CDs:
"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
So how did it sound -- did you love it for its sound or for its oddness (or both)?
Jim
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Yeah, the sound and (potential) playability...
Old strings and all...
Lots of poop, and a solid old-timey kind of tone...
Surprised that I had never run into one before...
Reminded me of a guy who used to build mandolins here in the Pacific NW out of blocks of western red cedar...
He'd split a 2" thick block in two, hollow out the mandolin, and then glue the block back together on the split-line.
The first time I saw one, I stared at it for a long time before figuring it out.
You couldn't see the glue line on the irregular seam, and it was like looking at a ship-in-a-bottle trying to figure out how in the hell he did that...
Orcas Island Tonewoods
Free downloads of my mandolin CDs:
"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
This instrument dates to the early teens. The earliest serial numbers date to 1911. The company was no longer listed as a manufacturer of musical instruments starting in 1939, but is subsequently listed as musical instrument dealers.
We have cataloged a range of serial numbers of approximately 1-2,000 and 3,000-3,200, but some of his instruments did not have serial numbers.
We know that serial number 4 was made prior to Aug 1911 and serial number 7 was made after Aug 1911.
We also know that around serial numbers 1033-1046, it was about 1920.
So serial number 44 is fairly early.
See Style B Dayton mandolin for sale on eBay right now. Serial no. 1104.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Dayton-S...item35bc713381
Lots of Dayton mandolin thread fragments here so I'll link this ebay sale of a 'student model' here for continuity.
Dayton Student Model Ebay
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Has this appeared in the registry? The SN is frustratingly obscured. 153? 453?
Mick
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Thanks for posting. This is my mandolin. The serial number is 455, which, according to our research, puts this mandolin at ca. 1915.
Check out our The Dayton website.
http://www.daytonstringinstruments.com/
Sorry for the redundancy. Nice to have the images here, too, I guess. Good luck with the sale. A very curious construction method on the student model.
Mick
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On an eBay auction, a Dayton 5 string banjo for posterity
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
I think I replied a few years ago, but just in case you didn't get it, I have a Dayton Model A Mandolin, model #370
David Ball
Scappoose Oregon
I have a Dayton banjo mandolin, serial number 1723, with a number 104 stamped on the inside of the rim under the fretboard area. It has a tensioned aluminum head and "The Dayton" on the headstock.
I have both a Style A and a mandolin banjo. I am working on getting another mandolin, but I will have to have some work done on it to get it playable.
My mando does NOT have the Dayton on the headstock, only the paper label inside.
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