[QUOTE=Sue Rieter;1778070]So I have a new mando in my life, a craiglist Strad-O-Lin, advertised as 50's but Mike E says it could be older. I think it's solid wood, at least the top, and even though...
[QUOTE=Sue Rieter;1778070]So I have a new mando in my life, a craiglist Strad-O-Lin, advertised as 50's but Mike E says it could be older. I think it's solid wood, at least the top, and even though...
I got as a good bargain my K2 mandocello following a local virtual craiglist ad in a small town south of Santiago de Chile 5 years ago. Now I do play it in a string section within a folk...
bandolas are larger bandurrias tuned one tone down.... Traditionally have 14 to 16 strings in 6 courses, but concierto bandolas tends to be 12 string instruments... you could compare a bandola...
scale lengths are different..... old spanish were shorter <46 cms, current spanish valencian makers have from 47 to 48 cm as a standard SL, filipino laudes and octavinas go larger at >50 cm going...
141449141450 my latest photo session with my folk band
Spanish mandolins are a contrast as different beasts than the equivalent 6 courses spanish pear shape calvete bandurrias and bandolas, and the larger tenor laúd relatives. These mandolins usually...