oval shaped mandolin

**Charles E.** · Feb-11-2011, 6:29pm

Here is one that is new to me.....

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-oval-sha...item2eb307e2d7

I cant imagine that it sounds very good. It is pretty though.

**brunello97** · Feb-11-2011, 8:20pm

Kind of nice looking and that neck looks like a Louisville Slugger. Too bad that it is so out of whack. It would be easier for me to stand in against Koufax than to play that.

Mick

**barney 59** · Feb-11-2011, 8:54pm

Stan Musial played the mandolin. Do you think that could be it?

**Charles E.** · Feb-11-2011, 9:11pm

This fall's into th catagory of " what were they thinking? "

**JEStanek** · Feb-11-2011, 9:35pm

There's a lid for every trashcan. There's a buyer for every auction. I'm not the One for this one.

Jamie

**allenhopkins** · Feb-11-2011, 11:51pm

One of the reasons certain instruments are "rare," is that a few get built, nobody likes 'em, nobody buys 'em, they stop making 'em. Case in point.

**Jim Garber** · Feb-12-2011, 2:52pm

Rather funkily-executed Embergher-style scroll on the pickguard. Some pics for posterity.

**brunello97** · Feb-13-2011, 12:19am

Originally Posted by barney 59

Stan Musial played the mandolin. Do you think that could be it?

The Man played the mandolin? Is that so? I'd love to get more on this story. Any pictures of him with our kind of 'lumber' in hand?

Mick

**Bill Snyder** · Feb-13-2011, 5:01pm

Originally Posted by Charles E.

...I cant imagine that it sounds very good. It is pretty though.

Why is that?

**allenhopkins** · Feb-13-2011, 5:24pm

Originally Posted by barney 59

Stan Musial played the mandolin. Do you think that could be it?

Actually, according to Joseph Stanton's Stan Musial: A Biography (p.28) Stan played harmonica; it was the Cardinals' trainer Doc Weaver who played mandolin, while Stan played slide whistle, and beat time on the lockers in the player's clubhouse with coat hangers. Stanton says the '40's Cardinals were noted for "eccentric musical liveliness."

**Charles E.** · Feb-13-2011, 5:47pm

Originally Posted by Bill Snyder

Why is that?

Bill, the body ( and vibrating surface of the top ) is too compact. The bridge location is too close to the end block. I would guess it would sound very bright and thin. Also there is a huge ammount of inlay in the top and I think that detracts from the sound.