I would like for players to recommend string brands and gauges for two 1938 Eupophone instruments: a mandolin and a mandola. I hardly play mandolin so do not have a particular style of playing in...
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I would like for players to recommend string brands and gauges for two 1938 Eupophone instruments: a mandolin and a mandola. I hardly play mandolin so do not have a particular style of playing in...
Scott,
I would like to change my member name from hambonepicker to BrucePHammond. Thank you for your consideration and response. Will this require a password change, as well?
hambonepicker
Scott,
While I have not succeeded in selling any instruments in my five previous attempts, I agree entirely with the idea of supporting this site with a small percentage of any instrument sale....
Does anyone have any data on a builder/repairer in New Jersey named Giuseppe Scanga?
His address was 336 Palisade Avenue. It may have been in Jersey City but I cannot read the label.
Errata
As for my statements on Estudiantina Espanol de Figaro, aka The Spanish Students. Previously, I stated the Spanish Students performed in NYC on New Year's Day, 1880.
Paul Ruppa has...
Anyone on the cafe forums know a Jim Dulfer? According to Matt Umanov, he is a tuner button expert. Where else should I post this question? Or does looking for someone violate TOS of mandolin cafe? I...
There have been statements that Bohmann received multiple patents under variant spellings of his name: Bowman, and maybe another variant. The problem with searching these early patents is they are...
There have been statements that Bohmann received multiple patents under variant spellings of his name: Bowman, and maybe another variant. The problem with searching these early patents is they are...
Please post photos when you get it finished.
Please see my May 16-2019 post on this thread. It includes a scan of Bohmann's catalog front page, which states, "Established 1876." I am uncertain, but think the statement claiming Bohmann began...
Please send photos when you find them. Thank you.
Please see my post of May 16. Definitive proof that Bohmann made a mandolin in either 1882 or 1883 - depends on how you interpret the letter. I can email you a scan of the original handwritten letter...
Would love to see some photos. But I imagine they were in the same style as the round buttons, white celluloid with a symmetrical floral inlay, MOP and some other material - right?
These are the original tuner buttons, and are fake tortoise shell. Celluloid. apparently, ivoroid tuners are much more long-lived. I recall someone used to reproduce the fancy Handel tuner buttons...
Sure would love to see a brace of photos after it gets restored.
This is interesting, simply because I posted a photo related to this thread some years ago, and I have researched Bohmann since around 2005. I will post the photo with a small addition, later.
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Has anyone seen stock Handel tuner buttons that look like these? I am trying to discover what they looked like originally. Additionally, I want to fabricate some reproductions.
These tuner buttons...
There seem to be options for finding the interview.
The NPR archive only was blocked - or the web archive?
A google search should get you there, and if it the website you find has it deleted,...
Tuner buttons shown are from an American 9 string, harp guitar, ca. 1885-1888. They seem to be a cheaper grade of Handel tuners than the nicer ones you see with MOP inlays, and such.
These look...
For many years, the C9 belonging to NASA at Ellington Field in Houston has been in plain view.
People in these parts call it the "vomit comet."
Yippeee!
Hambonepicker
Wouldn't mind seeing some of those images from the 1905 Sears catalog.
People who have searched the Sears archives for the company's contracts with George Bauer, Stewart, Jos. Bohmann, et. al.,...
[QUOTE]I think you're looking at a broken headstock that was more in the style of the Martin bowlback Headstocks originally.
Is that to say, it differed from the other presentation Bohmann...
May as well add the cheaper model mandolin "finial" headstock, called a "fancy scroll head" in the catalog.
I have seen examples of these more than the single point headstock, which was listed in...
Why isn't there an emoticon that is breathing hard, with it's tongue hanging out?
Finally, would anyone care to ID any of these mandolins by maker? I mean any maker besides Bohmann, but am not...
The closeup shot. Ideas, anyone? I have always thought this headstock was the perfect shape for someone not up to total reconstruction of the original design to ream it out and make it look as...