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Your "as received" photo gives me hope that this old Brambilla might be salvageable should my ship ever come in. This was dropped from a shelf in my grandfather's closet by his butterfingered heirs....

Wow, nice job so far!

My opinion of Stridente's is that they sound nice, but have a quite profound tendency to self-destruct :(

Traditionally these had "shelf" bridges like this:

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Thanks Mick, yes the neck is relatively straight and despite refretting it, i think I may yet replace the board with some built in relief. I added extra stiffening just forward of the sound hole....

I wanted to share my wonderful experience with purchasing a bowl back Mandola from Ikegaku in Japan

I've been wanting to dip my toe into GDAE Mandola for a while, after reading Robert Margo's many...

Here's an example of a Stridente restored by Lucas Sobieranski.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlaeT3Z_AZU

That bridge solo is great. Bassist is killing it too.

Here's another one for OP. To make it even better, he starts out the video by calling an eight-string Harley Benton mandocaster "the world's...

Mick, you have won the prize for the cryptic label challenge!

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It is a waltz composed by Nino Rota for Visconti's film Il Gattopardo (1963). :mandosmiley:
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The Naples Exhibition where he won the gold medal could refer to the big Labour Exhibition for the opening of Galleria Umberto 1 in 1890.



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Hi all,

Bought this a few days ago on Ebay, unusual design with its 5 courses. Seems to be a short lived and not sucessful design. The name Nicola Didone is new to me, couldn't find any...

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...

No, I'm not rolling my eyes about your Gibson....but I'd rather play your other mandolins!;) :grin:

Fisoma "Consort" strings are good; I' somewhat surprised to see the G string is 0.035, though.

Dogal makes a "Calace" set that's quite nice, and long-lasting. I think the lightweight set is "Dolce...

From my experience, pretty much all bowlbacks should be strung with extra-light strings, with 1st string at .009.

I have no problems with the GHS A240 Ultra Light Gauge: L09 (2) -L13 (2) -LB20 (2)...

In the "Bowlbacks of Note" thread, Jan. 7, 2014, posting #6216, Jim Garber mentions a Tartaglia:

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Speaking of Roman instruments... this is a Giulio Tartaglia model...

I just stumbled upon the archives of the Banjo Mandolin and Guitar that folded in the 70s.https://classic-banjo.ning.com/page/bmg-magazines

A treasure house of interesting material - who knew that...

I'd like to add couple of links too:

https://gurdyworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Massif-Central-Pink.pdf

https://accordeonaire.com/bal-folk-tune-book-project/
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As it happens, I've been dipping my toes into the bal folk repertoire over the past few weeks, with the results posted at my Youtube channel and over in the SAW Group on the forum. There's a great...

Oops I sent the notation-only version,
well here's La Chavannée, the all-inclusive notation/TAB version,
bon appétit! :)

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Thanks Doc, for bringing this thread back on topic. The first thing that should have been pointed out is that Gibson has a trademark on the Les Paul body and what they call the "ES" body (the...

It’s interesting, isn’t it? At least 10 iconic instruments - Lloyd loars, the l5 the 400, the Les Paul, the 335, the firebird. Let’s not forget p 90s and paf pickups, plus acoustic instrument...

Not here to defend Gibson, but in 130 years you're going to have some ups and downs. When you go back through the eons you will see most of our legends with their beloved Gibson F5 in their hands....

Mike I deeply respect your moderation and personal opinions.:)

I agree about heavy electric basses - I've even had my luthier buddy hollow out the back of my fretless J bass. BTW, it sounds...

This is a fantastic analysis of a recently discovered L-5 which turned out to be the oldest known example! It was signed on February 28th 1923 and was in remarkable shape- just a 1940s tailpiece and...

Good new demo of the one that's currently for sale.
https://youtu.be/mVP-vu6ffRM