This kind of group should be an encouraging and welcoming environment for people and their instruments. It's not a place for people to disparage each other's axes. If you're bothered by other people...
This kind of group should be an encouraging and welcoming environment for people and their instruments. It's not a place for people to disparage each other's axes. If you're bothered by other people...
As everyone here knows, I love bowlbacks and have played them for years and have some very nice ones. OTOH I also play carved top Gibson-style instruments as well in various genres of music. Although...
A style references the teardrop body shape without the scroll and points, F styles has the ornamental scroll and points. Either of those styles may have F shaped sound holes (there are 2 of them...
FYI, my primary mandolins are this 1908 Martin (don't know why those photos decided to lay on their sides):
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. . . and 1922 Lyon & Healy:
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Hi Marie,
The Gibson company promoted their carved mandolins heavily for mandolin orchestra use in the early part of the 20th century. There are thousands of those instruments still in circulation...
While I’m certainly not going to talk you out of getting a nice new A style oval hole mandolin to complement your F style, I will point out the Lloyd Loar originally designed the F-5 style mandolin...
J...i had the rotator cuff surgery, right shoulder at age 62, which did not involve any bone spur reduction (subacromial decompression) work, which could prolong your recovery. (Sometimes there are...
Jack,
I had the same surgery about 5 years ago and it took about 6 months before I could play the mandolin and another 12 months before I could play golf. (I play around 80 rounds of golf a year...