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dasspunk
Aug-22-2005, 11:05am
While browsing Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) this morning, I found the mandolin page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandolin) wanting... Surely there are a few mando-history buffs here who would jump at the chance to pontificate for posterity?
Daniel Nestlerode
Aug-22-2005, 11:58am
Someone should tell Evan Marshall. I'm sure he could ably fill missing info and correct any mistakes or misleading statements. (If I'm not mistaken, the neopolitan mandolin has been around a couple of hundred years longer than tht 18th century, but that may be a matter of the interpretation of the definition of "modern mandolin.")
Daniel
Eugene
Aug-24-2005, 12:10pm
Nope. The Neapolitan mandolin appeared in the mid 1700s. I may look over ol' Wiki soon, but don't know if they'd care for the word of a humble amateur slacker like myself.
Eugene
Aug-24-2005, 12:17pm
Actually, it "feels" to have been partly derived from some of what I've written on the FAQ here, partly from stuff Frank Norberg has written on his site, and partly from stuff of which I don't entirely like.
Eugene
Aug-24-2005, 12:40pm
Yours is more of the bit I do entirely like, I'm certain, Dan.
Bob DeVellis
Aug-24-2005, 12:41pm
I also put a bit in the mandolin entry a while back but mostly added the Howe-Orme and Vega stuff. Eugene, you're exactly who should be contributing to Wikipedia. Although I'd added a few bits and pieces in my areas of training (psychology), I was initially a bit reluctant to venture into areas like musical instruments where I'm only an interested amateur. But then I kept finding entries where information was wrong and couldn't resist correcting them when I was confident of my information. The whole philosophy of Wikipedia is that knowledgeable people should put down what they know and, if it's wrong, others will correct it. I very much doubt, Eugene, that anything you add will need any correction, however. The information you've shared with this community consistently has been well-informed. That goes for a bunch of other folks here, as well. Collectively, we know a lot more about mandolins than most other groups you're likely to stumble across.
jefflester
Aug-24-2005, 5:04pm
It needs a picture of an F5. That A with a magnetic pickup should not be the first picture seen.
I created the Chris Thile page back in July.
Who the heck is Nik Zuppardi? Googling the name turned up very little - only his review of the last Fairport album and a page copied from the wikipedia page.
I think people tend to enjoy putting personal friends etc in there. Eventually it gets cleared out. It's a bit of a wild and wooly reference source though http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
I added a few bits about the mandolin "fad", links to Siminoff's Loar & Orville pages.. Really IMO Roger is the man to write the historical info on Orville and Lloyd Loar. I've gotten lost in his articles for days.