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I bought this interesting "mandolino" on eBay, sold by Goodwill in Salinas, CA. The label says it's by D.W. Snyder of Santa Cruz, and has 4 strings with friction pegs. I can't find DW Snyder on the...

Yup, a big old wood screw with a strap button on it can be used.

If you can't return it - or it is too costly to do so, then that looks a candidate for a "strap button repair": basically reglue the neck as best you can, then fit a strap button on the heal with a...

Depends on where you live. See, for example, Wikipedia entry ‘mandola’
In this case, the OP may be referencing usage in Japan. I guess it would always be good to mention scale length, string tuning...

Isn't it an Octave mandolin? The tuning GDAE indicates that .

Here's a handy link to the Ikegaku online store.

Mick

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...

This is looking good...Do you have some side views of the neck alignment?

It looks as if the neck sheared off from the neck block from picture #2. These were integral in Italian bowlbacks as...

Sadly the joints on the Monterey model are not very deep (mortis and tenon type, straight sides, no dovetail). They didn't always make the tightest fit so again, not the best construction to work...

If you can't get a refund, before I threw it in the trash I would squirt some wood glue in there and clamp it with a C clamp. Cost is zero, worth a try. I wouldn't worry about the fingerboard...

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

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I believe the label is from a "Stridente" mandolin.

I'm seeing an "IDE" on the fragment with the familiar circular surrounding border.

I'm away from my files right now but will track down a...

We need to see more, and that instrument is going to need a heck of lot more than just a bridge.

It is a waltz composed by Nino Rota for Visconti's film Il Gattopardo (1963). :mandosmiley:
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I came across this site, and a topic on the Fender electric Mando caster which I had believed came out in the 60's. As a " proper " mandolin player ( as well as a guitarist ) I was concerned and...

I replaced tbe D and G Thomastik mediums with Dogal mediums roundwounds. A much bigger one sound with way more than expected sustain.

Thanks for the photos. Very nice looking mandolin, and I certainly enjoy maple bowls...

The action looks to be in quite playable condition.

The thickness of the new fretboard makes me wonder...

We can safely narrow this down to Sicily.

Mick

"As the organist at our local Catholic church, these are a few of my favorite hymns:

Be Thou My Vision (I think it's an Celtic melody)
All Creatures of Our God and King - just a good tune
Jesu,...

Italian I would imagine from the early 20th century.

Edit: I now see Richard500 has already made the same suggestion.

Veneered neck points to Italy (maybe), and the very much Art Nouveau ornament probably 1890-1905. Google Lens might find the lady if that’s a published shot of a celebrity, but it finally stopped...

Thornward was a brand made for Montgomery Wards, by Lyon and Healy. I have a very nice guitar that is a Thornward. Mine is somewhere around the 1900's-1910's.

Morning Has Broken is more Celtic than you might know. The tune was written in the 19th century by a Scots woman who spoke only Gaelic. I am not sure I remember her name - Mary Macdonald, maybe. The...

Fouchetti sonatas, specially the first.

I suppose that is a shorthand way of writing first and second end. so the first time, I would play one of both, the second time the other.