Early 1890 Tone-Gard

[Jim Garber]

Take a look at this one:
The Concert-Mandolin (http://www.oldmusicalinstruments.co.uk/instruments/instrument_detail.php?id=78&cat=PS) by L. Romito e Carbone, Naples, ca. 1890 with a very early version of the "Tone Gard".

http://www.oldmusicalinstruments.co.uk/images/instruments/detail/detail_211.jpg

Jim

[Flowerpot]

I guess there's nothing new under the sun.

Is it just me, or does that thing look like a chastity belt?

[jasona]

There is a busker in the Toronto subway system that plays a blacktop snakehead, with a wooden tone guard-like second back that he says is original. Never seen anything like it since.

[Jim Garber]

Is it just me, or does that thing look like a chastity belt?
Both: it is you and it does look like a chastity belt. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Jim

[John Bertotti]

I don't know about the chastity belt but it does remind me a bit of a knights visor. John

[mandroid]

It was a matching set, when he was to put on his helmet , first he put her in the chastity belt, before he an his squire rode off to go crusading , the origins of the ladys lockpick, too http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif