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Mongrel (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10179&item=3759996318&rd=1)
A VERY RARE EXPERIMENT gone horribly wrong.
GVD
brandon
Nov-09-2004, 7:47am
Hey!! and it's only $5oo.oo....what a bargain.
Jim Garber
Nov-09-2004, 8:27am
I have seen the opposite of this one: a double strung bowed mandolin. There are many experiments out there, some successful, some not so. Nice that someone tried and the quality of the workmanship looks pretty good.
Hey, just think about what folks in Kalamazoo at the turn of the last century must of thought of that weirdo making mandolins that were carved like violins. Whatever was he thinking! Mandolins are supposed to have rounded, staved backs, not arched!!! Sheesh! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Jim
Jim Garber
Nov-09-2004, 8:52am
That maker was not the only one to try this concept. This is a Violaline by Jerome Thibouville Lamy, who was a prominent maker in France in the 1800s.
Jim
twaaang
Nov-09-2004, 10:19am
Gem or beater, I just can't imagine setting an instrument down on a stone surface. The horror! -- PDW
mandodebbie
Nov-09-2004, 12:43pm
Pass the Tylenide.:p
John Craton
Nov-09-2004, 1:22pm
Who but the French??
It looks rather useless. Bowing it with the double strings does not make much sense. The body attaches around the 8/12 fret which is not much room on the neck for pickin. Maybe hook up a shertler pickup and use it as a microphone.
John Flynn
Nov-09-2004, 1:32pm
It proves my theories:
"Violins never solved anything."
-and-
"If it ain't broke, don't fiddle with it."
delsbrother
Nov-09-2004, 1:35pm
I have seen the opposite of this one: a double strung bowed mandolin.
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How 'bout this neat mando from the classifieds?
http://www.mandolincafe.com/classifieds/upload/11419.jpg
I'm not exactly sure if you're supposed to play this as a fiddle, or if you're supposed to hack at it Jimmy Page style. Hmm.. maybe I'll ask the seller!
Yay, I found this post a new home! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Jim Garber
Nov-09-2004, 1:47pm
It looks rather useless. Bowing it with the double strings does not make much sense. The body attaches around the 8/12 fret which is not much room on the neck for pickin. Maybe hook up a shertler pickup and use it as a microphone.
No, Tom, that one I pictured is not meant for bowing. That one is a variation on a std mandolin. I just mentioned that I had seen another instrument years ago that was a bowed mandolin.
Jim