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Just occured to me that photos are better as a record here than videos which can later disappear.

Here are some pics of it as it is, though I do still need to clean the soundboard.
I believe...

One of these I've been playing for while, the other is newly restored, not often you get two of these in the same place at the same time!

In addition to the level of decoration, the main...

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Having just retrieved my own 1896 Calace from my luthier, who restored it to its former handsome and marvelously playable condition, it seems appropriate to use this forum to document it's existence:...

Romance by the Russian composer L.D.Malashkin (1881: "Я встретил Вас")...:mandosmiley:
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I wonder if there is any way to cross-reference this thread in the "Bowlbacks of note" thread? (Can you tell I used to be a librarian?)

I suspect they're both US-made.

The butterfly mandolin's fretboard inlays are charming, and its tuners and end piece may have some salvage value. Hard to say. Other than that. merely decorative,...

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I figured this is the best place to post this eBay Germany sale of a non-Luigi Embergher. https://www.ebay.com/itm/134609001249

Interesting heart-shape in headstock though it looks slightly...

Thanks, Victor.

I don’t have any examples from Ernesto V in my files.

It is a curious hybrid and I agree w your Catanese hunch.

Could you post a shot of the label?

Did the label have EV...

That scratchplate is an interesting hybrid between the DeMeglio style and the Catania ones. Curious!

I know my instrument changed, and others commented, they heard it too. They weren't playing to get used to the instrument, they were listening. I don't play any different on any of my mandolins, but...

Looks somewhat “agricultural”.

Maybe it was a design thing?

BTW, why wouldn’t the label be in Italian?…assuming Graziano M was, himself…

Mick

It might be partly my fault and the discussion here makes me think that I was not right in promoting that opinion of the paper used to release the bowl from the form. However, I must have heard it...

I'm not sure about the need for triple courses of the same gauge strings.

I have also seen a few mandolin-tuned instruments like what we sold when I worked for Lark in the Morning as a "tricordia"...

Some photos for illustration of Calace 1922 (parchment paper), Calmencita (Calace copy 1926 - satin liner), Stridente (parchment paper) techniques.
Lining is glued in place after building the bowl...

No argument from me, Tom, but you'd have to get pretty sloppy with your glue to have it 'soak through the paper' and adhere to the wood mold.

I don't know where the "slip sheet" idea first...

I finally completed this Brecian Mandola. It was inspired by an illustration from 1805.
It is made with Huon pine soundboard and Queensland Maple neck and bowl. In keeping with the Auzie theme, I...

Those cleats must have taken for ever to do!

Victor: I saw that one awhile ago on ebay. My first impression was that the first name was Alberto.

The style of the build is DeMeglio especially from the scratch plate shape. However the neck construction is not like DeMeglio or other of those made in Napoli. The multiply neck construction is...

This thread -towards the bottom explains the history of Silvestri and the various names as mentioned by vic-victor above with a couple of labels also shown.
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I'm pretty sure this is the same exact mandolin:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux9X3dxJ9p8

"It really enjoys being put back together."

There’s a guy on ebay I think his name is Ron Hyde. If you look closely that tailpiece says Hyde. He is a real character and now I believe that he may have taken a basket case A-50 or A-40 and did...