In 1990 I did sound in Pennsylvania at the Canyon Country Festival near Wellsboro and Lost and Found were playing as well as Del and the boys. I generally go up before the bands play and get a sample off mic of the instruments so I can duplicate the tone or talk about what changes musicians want in the mix for their instruments. Dempsey Young, who plays mandolin for Lost and Found had a Hutto. A very early one, I think 1972. Same detail, built to look like an early Gibson. It had the darkest sound I have ever heard in any mandolin. What a Hoss! So when I got back to the board, that's what I mixed. Dempsey was so impressed that I could duplicate the tone in the mix. It really wasn't that hard, but I am haunted to this day by that sound.
The only other mandolin that I have heard like that was one of John Monteleone's early Loar copies that were sold through Mandolin Brothers in the mid 70's, but it had the Monteleone one piece bridge on it. As I build mandolins, those are the voicings that I try to duplicate. I wish I had an early Hutto. Guess I'll keep trying to build one. Kenc
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