Interesting, although I kinda wish the point were smaller. At 15" I'd be tempted to try mandola strings on it.
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Interesting, although I kinda wish the point were smaller. At 15" I'd be tempted to try mandola strings on it.
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Fantastic!
The shop doesn't have the guitar for sale ... maybe it's staying with the owner?
I'm a longtime fan of Frank Ford's packing advice: http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Musician/GenMaint/Packing/packing1.html
You can get my contact info by following the Emando.com link in my signature. Email or text me the photo and I'll post it here.
Try reaching out to CMSA: https://classicalmandolinsociety.org/
Mandolin orchestras were phenomenally popular in the United States from 1880 through the mid-1920s. Most major cities had at least...
Cool. Someone posted a 1913 A1 yesterday with that tailpiece cover on it ... must've been replaced at some point.
A '50s Gibson tailpiece would use the post-1948 sans serif logo, not a script logo.
Is this tailpiece cover actually a Gibson product? If so, in what period would it have been used?
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That color doesn't look right, and as shiny and reflective as the finish is, I now wonder if the mandolin might have been refinished. That's a question for the pros, like rcc56. It's often difficult...
You mean rcc56. I expect he'll be along sooner or later, and if I got anything wrong he'll set me straight!
What you see stamped on the neck block is a "factory order number," not a date. This evening perhaps I'll have a chance to look up that factory order number and serial number in Spann's Guide to...
Interesting.
Serial number 21745 corresponds to 1915 or so, not 1922.
This mandolin has had some work done. It looks like the adjustable bridge has an aluminum saddle, which could date the...
Yeah, what Scott said. Yikes.
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Sorry, but Jason having a cello stamped 532 shoots down the whole theory. No way were more than 500 of these cellos made.
Sol Goichberg's MandoArt Quartet used L&H instruments exclusively. My ol' buddy Al is the son of a former member of said quartet; he told me that Goichberg believed L&H instruments, when played...
Right ... of course the McDonald and Smart quartets I mention had a second mandolin in place of the mandobass.
You can ask the seller.
I doubt Scott needs your help identifying freeloading sellers. He can look at data and say, "Hm, Seller X has placed four hundred umpty-eleven ads but never donated...
OK, just won an auction for a Style A, listed by the auctioneer as "serial number 10xx? (#328) on rib." Photo of the label doesn't show the written number. We'll see when it gets here, but it...
Now it's time to pick up a few modern quartets. Graham McDonald had one he was trying to sell not long ago. Lawrence Smart has done one. I think maybe Max Girouard too?
I seem to remember Keef's book casting doubt on the fire theory, but regardless of the reason, it's true that there doesn't seem to be much in the way of records.
Perhaps "anomaly" is the wrong...
Yours isn't in consideration. Bob's cello is 10/152 and Joe's cello is 17/199.
I'm looking at a Style A mandolin up for auction that might have a number mismatch, from the auctioneer's incomplete...
You'll notice that I posted in that thread several times. It offers evidence of a second mandocello whose stamped and written numbers don't match.
That's it.
Keef's theory in that thread may...
But on every L&H instrument I've checked, the stamped serial number matches the one on the label. Yours is an anomaly.
Specific serial numbers in the Mandolin Archive were drawn from records like eBay sales, mentions here on the Café, lists kept by vintage instrument dealers, etc. Your mandolin isn't listed because...
Um, no.
It's possible that someone replaced the back and sides. But the original would be solid.
And I'm not sure that's maple; it could be nicely figured birch.
This one has had some...