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fiddlinfool
Sep-30-2006, 3:21pm
Does this bridge look original? It's on a late 1930s Kalamazoo flat-top mandolin.
thanks
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/naugler/KalamazooMando04.jpg
Nope http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
fiddlinfool
Sep-30-2006, 6:53pm
Thanks - does anyone have a pic of what one should look like?
thanks again http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Jim Garber
Sep-30-2006, 8:04pm
It looks like it should be a non-adjustable compensated one. Yours is a KM-11? Gruhn describes them as having a non-height-adjustable bridge.
This one from Neil J Dean's site:
http://www.neiljdeanmandolins.com/images/store_mand3.jpg
This one from Spruce Tree Music:
http://www.sprucetreemusic.com/kalakm11mando.jpg
It also looks like your tailpiece is not original. Should be the std clamshell with separate cover.
Jim
fiddlinfool
Oct-01-2006, 9:13am
Thanks http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif