Regarding the Leland mandocellos pictured here: I've had two of them over the years. Most of the Leland Brilliantone mando-family line are usually credited to Larson Bros. The mandocellos are in...
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Regarding the Leland mandocellos pictured here: I've had two of them over the years. Most of the Leland Brilliantone mando-family line are usually credited to Larson Bros. The mandocellos are in...
Not current information, but just came across this YouTube vid featuring one of SOS's most exemplary works from his glory days. I don't know the player or how he came into possession, but the video...
I love the whiteface A3s. It was an extraordinarily creatively fertile period at the Kalamazoo factory, and there's something about the ivory finish when its clean and complete that's just shimmers...
Hi Acharman--I started off playing classical guitar as a kid, so that 4-finger technique with nails is my default. But I started playing in Irish trad sessions early on, and especially after moving...
Glad to see someone picking this technique up. I've been trying to spread the word on the potential of fingerstyle cittern or bouzouki for three decades now.
Here's a recent effort on a suite of...
I know of 7 Sobell 12-string citterns in the world at the moment:
Brian McNeill's short-scale (22") 12-string from 1984,
Ian Hartland's guitar-length cittern from the later 80s,
the 17"...
That's Pumpkin (1997)!
Not a bad refin.Just a really bad idea.
Here's another one just like the other one, except somewhat worse for wear, lacking a case, and also lacking the all-important Victoria Racimo connection... .
The seller has just accepted an...
She's a doozy. With the nearly-$30k quote I wasn't actually referring to the bandurria but to the Vega-Arthur Godfrey baritone uke, which is being offered for the bargain-basement figure of...
I wrote the seller a note about her pricing:
With all due respect, when a dealer offers musical instruments for sale at prices that bear no relation to any existing musical instrument marketplace...
I wrote the seller a note about her pricing:
With all due respect, when a dealer offers musical instruments for sale at prices that bear no relation to any existing musical instrument marketplace...
At that scale length the instrument would most likely be happiest with an extra high course. Tunings like GDGDG or GDADA really pop at that scale,and give you lots of room to play...
The guitar was made for LuluBelle of LuluBelle and Scotty Wiseman. There were apparently two made in one small batch, one sunburst and one natural. Here is a shot of the natural one, but note the...
The Regal custom shop in the 30s produced some spectacular instruments. I found an unlabeled custom guitar at a yard sale along Sheridan Ave. in Chicago years ago that was the equal of anything made...
From long-ago workshops with Mick Moloney and others I think that the standard pattern for picking reels on mando (or banjo, or any plectrum beastie) is D-U-DUD-D-U-DUD--meaning that you have to...
Here is a tune played on cittern with tremolo technique adapted from the Spanish guitar. I spent years practicing "Recuerdos de la Alhambra." Then I heard the Irish classical guitarist John Feeley do...
Listen to what Enda Scahill does with tremolo--both on mandolin and tenor banjo. He occasionally takes the standard triplet and extends it into tremolo passages on jigs, reels, hornpipes, and even on...
Love the tune that Emer and her husband are playing on the first clip. Anyone know what it is?
Joseph
And already sold, drat!
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From a cbom orgy at Randy Clepper's house in Columbus OH.
That's Randy's Sobell...
Yes it does. Looks like 14308.
I don't have the slightest doubt that this one is from the Larson shop. I have one exactly like it (except beat to hell), and it's Larson work in every particular.
Joseph
Clarification about the DeLuccia--it is a six-string headstock, but I had it set up with four courses--the high two double and the bottom two single.
For some reason the photos uploaded rotated left. Sorry. But you can see the Leland mandocello by itself and standing beside the amazing 3-course DeLuccia that Doc Rossi bought from me a year or so...