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You've been reading my mail! I couldn't agree more. Consequently, I have A-style oval holes made by Gibson, Bacon, Lyon & Healy and Martin.

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Celebrate spring with the Oregon Mandolin Orchestra’s live/virtual May 5 Sunday matinee concert in Southwest Portland

The Oregon Mandolin Orchestra invites you to join a spring...

Make that the Milwaukee Mandolin Orchestra and Paul Ruppa.

My first tuner was a four-tone pitchpipe, more than 60 years ago!

Mike taught classes at one of Brian Oberlin's River of the West Mandolin Camp a few years ago. There is always something to learn from Mike!

Bravo! You have done something amazing!

I had no idea!

When my 1925 Washburn Professional (by Lyon & Healy) arrived, I found this charming, crumpled note in the case.

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Great story!! Glad it turned out OK.

I've had good luck at getting rid of mold and its odors by using tea bags. I simply buy the cheapest tea bags I can find and stuff them into the body. I used about 50 with a stinky 1915 Gibson A --...

An earlier discussion about Gus Ingo:

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/86103-Gus-Ingo-anyone

I like rubbing kerosene on offending adhesive residue. Kerosene is a relatively gentle solvent and hasn't harmed any of my instruments. If you get your car detailed, the "lotion" they use to remove...

Maybe this instrument and a Gibson might SMELL the same. Other than that...

Same way Paul Glasse makes me feel better about my picking hand bobbing up and down instead of cutting straight across the strings. That doesn't seem to hamper Paul any, either!

I'd say it's more like a baby ukulele with an out-of-proportion mandolin tailpiece. The bowl-ish back is puzzling.

Welcome. Some photos would help, especially of any labels you can see. Good luck with it. The price certainly was right for an experiment.

The label on the left seems odd. In Italian, the word brothers is "fratelli" -- not "fratres."

Also, Calace mandolins were made in Naples -- Napoli in Italian. The odd label says it was made in...

I heard Dutch mandolin virtuoso Marijke Wiesenekker play one in Portland, Ore., a few years back. It -- and she-- sounded great!

You may want to experiment with where you pick -- behind the sound hole? Over the sound hole? Or somewhere in between? In my experience, picking in the right spot is more critical for most oval...

That's what I figured, but I'm still hoping for a miracle.

Got one sitting in your workshop, getting dusty on a top shelf?

I'm restoring a 1929 Martin Style 20 and would love to find an original ebony bridge.

Looks like this:

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This was my guess: A Regal Blue Comet mandolin.

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Looks to me like some kind of resonator mandolin.

I asked to get my young fingers back.

I like TP 40s with a right-hand speed bevel. But you should try a lot of picks and choose the one that suits you.