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    Re: Bowl Back mandolin

    Bowl back mandolins became unfairly maligned due to the marketing of the Gibson company. I suspect Orville Gibson did not know how to make a bowlback. He apparently did not even know how to bend...
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    Re: Downtune Mandolin for Baroque (?)

    There is indeed both low chamber tuning, where a different pitch is used for A, and a completely different instrument in the Baroque mandolin. The true Baroque mandolin is a small lute with usually...
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    Re: Mel bay's baroque music for mandolin

    It appears from the comments that the piece in this collection is Vivaldi's violin concerto in Am. The two Vivaldi concertos for mandolin were actually written for Baroque mandolin or mandolino. ...
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