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A jazz musician has to be a working class of man, out in the open all the time, healthy and strong. That's what's wrong today: these guys haven't got the force. They don't like to play all night:...

Video of the Gelas mandocello:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5lNRQbr8g4

[QUOTE=your_diamond;1746217]Looks like he sold the Bohman guitar mentioned in the last paragraph. Can't find it anywhere.[/QUOTE

The guitar is still for sale on Reverb. I just got busy over the...

Gosh guys I guess I'm totally busted! Not sure if I’m breaking some rule by participating in this thread, but in full disclosure, the Gelas set is actually mine that I put on consignment with John. ...

The Gelas Hawaiian Guitar is dated 1920. Apparently the Hawaiian music fad was hitting Europe not long after the US mainland.

On a related note, Joseph Kekeku was born in Oahu in 1874 and is...

Here's a link to the set. https://bernunzio.com/product/gelas-family-26142/

Each item is also photographed and described separately.

The outside dimensions of the H5 case are about 31 3/4" x 13 x 5 1/8"

Yes Paganoni did the relining. Really nice work.

Here it was before it was relined.

Here is a 1924 H5 rectangular case, original but was relined a couple years ago.

It probably depends a lot on the individual instrument as far as which one will give you the sound you want in octave versus tenor tuning. Here's a video link to a Gibson TG-00 tuned down to an A...

I thought the guy was way too harsh on the Larson mandolin. He said that they are largely decorative, and no one would buy it for the sound. I've played a couple of these that sounded great, and...

I notice that in Mandolin Memories, Adelstein calls Raffaele Calace "the greatest luteist in the world". I would have loved to hear those two jam!

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There are actually two pieces both by Raffaele Calace, Piccolo Serenata Opus 115 at 3:50 and Barcarola Opus 116 at 8:18. Calace wrote a lot of music for solo liuto cantabile, some of it very...

I decided to post a video playing a 1904 Vinaccia Liuto Cantabile, five pairs of strings tuned CGDAE, 23 flamed maple ribs, 22 1/2" scale length, set up with Thomastik strings.
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I decided to make a video of the complete Bach Cello Suite No. 3. C major is obviously a great key for mandocello and even without the bowing patterns and vibrato of an actual cello, it’s still a...

some photos too...

This week’s unusual instrument is a circa 1890 Henry C. Dobson Banjo with a small 9” head and short 22 ¼” scale length. This banjo is equipped with Dobson’s classic doughnut shaped tone ring, bar...

This week’s unusual instrument is a circa 1920 Stahl Mandocello built by the Larson Brothers in Chicago. In the video I mistakenly state that the scale length is 24 ¼” However, the scale length is...

some photos too...

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This week’s unusual instrument is a circa 1895 Luscomb Banjeaurine. This banjo has a metal rim with a wooden tone ring. It has a short scale length of 19 ½” and is tuned a fourth higher (C5, F3,...

This week’s unusual instrument is a 1916 Gibson K4 Mandocello. This is an exceptionally fine sounding and playing example with a 24 ¾ scale length, no truss rod and Handel tuners. For some reason...

Some images of the laminated bracing and internal metal rods on the Prairie State...

This week's unusual instrument is a c1934 Prairie State (Larson Brothers) Four String Guitar. 25 ¼” scale length could be tuned as a plectrum, tenor or like the bottom four strings of a regular...

This week's unusual instrument is a circa 1910 Fairbanks Vega Whyte Laydie No. 2 Banjorine. Vega used the spelling "banjorine" while SS Stewart who is credited with developing the instrument spelled...