More details: scalloped fretboard and 6 gut strings. the bowl is shallower than a Neapolitan.
here is a back view.
Jim
More details: scalloped fretboard and 6 gut strings. the bowl is shallower than a Neapolitan.
here is a back view.
Jim
Jim
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Brentrup A4C -- 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin -- 1904 Embergher Type 3 -- 1937 Gibson L-Century -- 1939 Gibson L-00 -- ca. 1890s Celebrated Benary Banjo -- 1985 Monteleone Grand Artist Mandola
Okay- keeping it alive, a reprise of the Style 5 (poetry unintended)
Bob DeVellis
Here's my 1921 Martin style 6a with extra-plain top trim. A distributor had some of these made, numbering somewhere in the lower double digits... I don't remember the details.
Peter Klima (not the hockey player)
My 6a is plain on top, but it has the scalloped ribs of the style 6. With ivory spacers, too.
Peter Klima (not the hockey player)
Here's the whole thing from the front... not the best photo, I'm afraid.
Peter Klima (not the hockey player)
You are in a position to receive my envy, Sr. Klima!
I especially like the bear rug "baby" shots of our non-hockey player's 6a. Reminds me of Victor's thread of his new baby.
There is something exquisite of the plainness of this instrument. I can almost hear the sweetness of its sound.
Jim
Jim
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Brentrup A4C -- 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin -- 1904 Embergher Type 3 -- 1937 Gibson L-Century -- 1939 Gibson L-00 -- ca. 1890s Celebrated Benary Banjo -- 1985 Monteleone Grand Artist Mandola
Sorry....
Michael Lettieri
Thanks, guys. Though for the record that's a sheepskin. It certainly is a lovely-sounding mando, though.
Peter Klima (not the hockey player)
A couple of my ex-es. Here's one now in the (I hope and expect) loving custody of Cafe-er dvatchka. It's a ca. 1900 Brandt style 2.
21-rib bowl:
Every Brandt I've seen except two had a tastfully executed scroll (usually in natural maple, not lacquered black). #One exception was a dated, late-19th-c. example with a typical peghead, and the other featured a blocky and graceless partial scroll with a label that read "style 1."
This old guy is a 1915 Martin style 2. When I bought it, it had the most offensive non-original, diagonal-fret, undecorated fingerboard imagineable. Dan Larson made the extended re-replacement. It went on eBay for $500 (a bargain compared to a style 0 ukulele!), almost $100 less than it cost me to obtain and restore (Hmmph!).
26-rib bowl:
Engraved tuning plates and ivoroid buttons:
Here's a detail of the 29-fret fingerboard (sans 28):
Care to add one more "ex," Jeff?
Eugene:Originally Posted by (Eugene @ April 16 2004, 15:40)
What exactly do you mean by a diagonal fret fingerboard?
Jim
Jim
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Exactly what it implies! Some of the frets weren't quite parallel with their neighbors.
Ah, reptile dentistry-style of luthiery. I thought you meant one of those fan-fret fingerboards.
Jim
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Here's my Vega Style 3. Still have to get it and a few others. "Get thee to a lutherie..."
Jim
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Brentrup A4C -- 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin -- 1904 Embergher Type 3 -- 1937 Gibson L-Century -- 1939 Gibson L-00 -- ca. 1890s Celebrated Benary Banjo -- 1985 Monteleone Grand Artist Mandola
And the back of the Vega Style 3
Jim
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Brentrup A4C -- 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin -- 1904 Embergher Type 3 -- 1937 Gibson L-Century -- 1939 Gibson L-00 -- ca. 1890s Celebrated Benary Banjo -- 1985 Monteleone Grand Artist Mandola
What exactly are the "issues pending" with this instrument, Jim? It, ehm... looks healthy.
I wish you the best of luck with this, and to the instrument, well, a speedy recovery to old glory!
It is not man who lives, but his work. (Ioannis Kapodistrias)
I have this nice little catalog from Luigi Ricca, a maker in New York at the turn of the last century. This is a pdf file of the entire catalog.
Mike Holmes says that his factory had upwards of 200 employees at one time. He probably made many instruments on contract.
Jim
Jim
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Brentrup A4C -- 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin -- 1904 Embergher Type 3 -- 1937 Gibson L-Century -- 1939 Gibson L-00 -- ca. 1890s Celebrated Benary Banjo -- 1985 Monteleone Grand Artist Mandola
Inspired by Hubert's recent acquisition and the subsequent chatter, I decided to post this old warhorse once more. This is a 1908 one-of-a-kind Martin. It is backed in 42 fluted ribs of Brazilian rosewood but, unlike Peter's 6a, it uses maple spacers.
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