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Yes, he does both.

Paul is an old friend, from before the time we were both in the musical instrument business in Dublin's Capel Street, but he has played a lot with people who would be more...

He did indeed, but I was trying to explain to him that there's no absolute answer to that, if you want good intonation. Having a shop, it's a basic set-up job I have to perform all the time. (I just...

Whilst what f5joe says is true in theory, and a good starting point, in practice it's more a question of intonation, rather than inches, the exact distance being dependent on how high your action is...

Not always an easy man to track down, but he's the best one to tell you :

Joe Foley,
4 Braemor Road,
Churchtown,
Dublin 14,
Ireland.

Here in Ireland Gibson mandolins are not very popular. Heresy, I hear you say, but most Irish players insist on using Jim Dunlop nylon .60 picks, for playing triplets, so think that Gibsons sound...

Ozark is the brand name of a UK importer, their instruments come from various sources, both in Europe and the Orient.

They have sold the Romanian "Reghin" instruments (from the actual...

From what I've seen of these, at trade shows etc., the slotted-head ones are the cheaper model, in a gloss finish. I've only had some of the dearer version with the solid headstocks, which are in a...

Plamen,

I'm sure that I have come across his name somewhere before too, maybe on an instrument.

Anyway, a quick web search suggests that he may well have been a composer/arranger for mandolin....

In comparison with Maciocchi, Gelas looks like the top of the aesthetics![/QUOTE]

Though from the side they look rather like they've met with an unfortunate accident !...

I've had plenty of these through my shop, labelled either as Reghin or Ozark, but my own preference would be for the smaller Potuguese II model. To my ears it has a much nicer sound, and I think it...

French makers seem to have been fond of oddball designs with double tops. I've had a couple by Lucien Gelas, like this example http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif for...

Michael,

I've had a few Radiotone instruments over the years, guitars, mandolins and ukuleles, usually with arched tops. They appear to have been made in Germany, probably Saxony, in the 1930's.

Evidently you must have decided not, as in the meantime the seller visited me here in Kilrush, and traded the mandolin with me for a very nice 19th century flute.


Maybe he didn't have it to hand...