PDA

View Full Version : What do you think this is?



delsbrother
Jan-07-2008, 5:54pm
Mando body, long neck, four (?) strings, 1912. (http://cgi.ebay.com/1907-Old-Photo-Postcard-Band-BANJO-MANDOLIN-ACCORDION_W0QQitemZ270201779231QQihZ017)

http://i4.ebayimg.com/08/i/000/d0/c8/28d5_1_sbl.JPG

PT66
Jan-07-2008, 6:29pm
I think it is an early "tenor guitar". I have seen four stringed instruments with round wooded bodies tuned like tenor banjo but all wood, no skin head. This was probly tuned the same.

bradeinhorn
Jan-07-2008, 6:32pm
that poor little girl was born with an accordian instead of arms http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

scgc.om
Jan-07-2008, 7:01pm
An early tenor guitar - in 1912 . . . I highly doubt it. Both Martin and Gibson introduced tenor guitars the same year - 1927. Their intent was to woo some tenor banjo players over to the guitar. Tenor banjos were not a big craze (i.e. worth wooing) till the 20s.

Jim Garber
Jan-07-2008, 7:43pm
Could be a Pollman mandolin-banjo like this one:
http://www.musurgia.com/images/657_banjo/large/657_01.jpg

These were made in the banjo era, late 1800s.

mandolooter
Jan-07-2008, 8:23pm
thats a cool pic what ever it is, how cute! Sure look like banjo tuners from this angle.

mandolirius
Jan-07-2008, 8:50pm
<that poor little girl was born with an accordian instead of arms>

You're completely mistaken about that. She was born with a concertina instead of arms. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

JEStanek
Jan-08-2008, 10:42am
Even more tragic!

Goldtone still makes a Banjola.
http://banjoteacher.com/GoldToneBanjos/images/Banjola.JPG
Jamie

allenhopkins
Jan-08-2008, 5:22pm
Could be a Pollman mandolin-banjo...
These were made in the banjo era, late 1800s.
Pollman made 'em with four- and six-string necks as well as the five-string version.

Patent dates are in the 1890's. He called the five-stringers "mandoline banjos."

Jim Garber
Jan-08-2008, 5:29pm
I didn't look at the link in the original post. I didn;t realize that the postcard might be from Portugal ... or is it?

Then again, it doesn't look like any Portuguese instrument I know of. Oh wait, a card written to Portugal maybe from someone visiting in America, maybe New England -- large Portuguese immigrant community. Could be a Pollman instrument then.

brunello97
Jan-09-2008, 1:44am
I didn't look at the link in the original post. I didn;t realize that the postcard might be from Portugal ... or is it?

Then again, it doesn't look like any Portuguese instrument I know of. Oh wait, a card written to Portugal maybe from someone visiting in America, maybe New England -- large Portuguese immigrant community. #Could be a Pollman instrument then.
It doesn't look like a US stamp on the postcard, and the date stamp also appears day-of-month first, Euro style.

Painfully cute kids.....

Mick

jtauxe
Jan-14-2008, 2:08pm
I'm guessing that the instrument on our left (their right) is a wooden tenor banjo. I have two banjos that I have made that look very much like that, except that they ahve 5 strings. I've been contemplating a 4-string version, and if I built it it would look much like what she is holding.