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All cherry with a spruce soundboard and boxwood pegs.
This build was commissioned based on these sources from the Capella Palatina in Italy:...

The top dried fairly flat after 2 days of clamping pressure. Some of the purfling came loose in the process, but a little super glue got everything back in place.

I sanded out the top and got rid...

I have had this on my wall for years. Hope it helps.

Here's a nice 1903 Disantino I just aquired.
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I've just finished building an LBB for a customer in Co. Clare. He already has an SBB which he loves, but this commission was to be a special instrument. He wanted to include some woods...

From one with short-fat fingers....I wish I had that problem to find out. :)

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I started a new Celtic music (mostly Irish) podcast last month. I do a live show on Dublin South FM every Tuesday evening at 6pm GMT. The podcasts go up on MixCloud a day or two after.
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his tune is just so joyous, I knew I had to arrange it the minute I heard it. By the late Highland piper Gordon Duncan. I recently met a piper busking in Bath who says he is great friends with...

After many years of searching I recently managed to acquire a tenor mandola to form a trio of matching instruments made about a hundred years ago in London by John E Dallas. They all share common...

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Here's my latest build, a Ramal-style Zenne Oud.
A zenne oud has a shorter scale length than the standard oud. This one's scale length is 54cm.
Spruce, cherry,...

Early last year I purchased a vintage tenor banjo (c. 1915-ish) just to learn to play. It needed a little work, which I knew when I bought it. After it arrived, I saw some potential and began the...

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Here's something from 2011. I only took two or three photos of it before I sold it and I really wish I had at least traced the body outline onto a sheet of...

Attached are photos of a set including a mandolin, tenor mandola, tenor guitar, mandocello and guitar. If I had to generalize, I would say they have the sweetness of a bowlback but without being...

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I've never heard of this guy but my goodness he can play.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tYTQJHg8uY&feature=youtu.be

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Just finished this. It's a Barbat (Persian oud) with an ash body and pegbox, mahogany neck, cherry fingerboard and spruce soundboard.

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Långt borta translates as "Far Away", but although it also validly translates as "Long Gone", the DuoLingo language site (Swedish section) keeps telling me I'm wrong when I use the latter. I guess...

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This was my dad's mandolin. He was born in 1925 and was given this instrument when he was 10. I've tried to research the date of manufacture and have come up short. The...

I just finished this 10-string mandolin for an exhibit at the Robert Bateman Centre in Victoria, BC, Canada. The idea was a group of artists of varying backgrounds all make objects using wood from...

Well I finally managed to record a couple of very basic sound files, clams 'n' all, which I've uploaded to Soundcloud as I didn't manage to attach them here. They were done straight into my Ipad with...

This is a somewhat unusual instrumental quartet arrangement of this famous Irish rebel song. Arranged by Jan Wolters for two recorders, guitar and bass:

http://www.janwolters.nl/blad/fogdew.pdf
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A cult song of the 80's, brought to success by the Norwegian band a-ha, in my arrangement for classical guitar. http://www.chitarrarte.it


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I found that the tension is still a bit soft, so I tune it up to pitch (G D A E), the feel is much better and more comparable with my small mandolin.

Here is the O Solo Mio tune I recorded...

Get some of this stuff. I don't know what they call it. Comes in different colors to match your ensemble. Cut a square foot, put it on your lap, that mandolin is not going anywhere.