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    Re: May Bell mandolin on Pottstown PA craigslist

    :confused: If you're not seeing it, then there's nothing more I can say.
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    Re: May Bell mandolin on Pottstown PA craigslist

    Sure. The old f-holes:

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    The heel:

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    There's also the bridge saddle design and oversized thumbwheels:
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    Re: May Bell mandolin on Pottstown PA craigslist

    No, of course the catalog isn't false. Regal built them for Slingerland like they did for so many other brands, and almost none of those brands mentioned the real manufacturer, either. These...
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    Re: Kent wc26 mandolin pickup

    In the '60s, this was untrue. Japanese guitars at that point were mostly junk; it wasn't until the mid '70s that they started producing instruments that rivaled the best American or European ones....
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    Re: Kent wc26 mandolin pickup

    The Kent WC26 was a cheaper alternative to the DeArmond 500, $17.50 vs $32.50. The mandolin is a late '50s model built by Kay (the P4 stamp is Kay's body style, not the Airline model number).
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    Re: May Bell mandolin on Pottstown PA craigslist

    These were not built by Slingerland; the only stringed instruments they ever built were banjos. These were built by Regal.
  7. Re: New song at the nexus of blues, country, jazz, and rock 'n ro

    Nah, that saying was around long before the show.
  8. New song at the nexus of blues, country, jazz, and rock 'n roll

    From my new album Tofudebeest. I'm not sure what you'd call this style, but it's a bouncy song with tenor guitar, acoustic & electric mandolins.

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    A bit of jazzy tenor guitar

    I covered a variety of styles on my new album, albeit with a sound rooted in rock and roll. For this jazzy tune, the lead was played on an electric tenor in standard CGDA tuning:
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    Re: 1940s/50s Leo Master Mandolin- United of NJ?

    There were several different decals used on the banjos, one of which was identical to the one on this mandolin. https://imgur.com/0wJUFEG.jpg
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    Re: 1940s/50s Leo Master Mandolin- United of NJ?

    Yup, looks like a United product to me. I have a Sorkin catalog from the late '50s showing a Leo Master banjo; an identical mandolin is in there too, but it's listed as the Blue Comet model 500.
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    Re: Grandpa's S.S. Stewart - Help request

    This mandolin was built by Harmony. It's an uncommon body shape for them which dates the mandolin to the early-mid '30s. It also has an early-style Stewart logo on the front of the headstock that...
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    Re: 1940s/50s United of NJ Mandolin?

    Not United. I do see some areas of resemblance, but they didn't use that body or headstock shape. I actually think this instrument pre-dates United; stylistically it looks more like the '30s than...
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    Re: Vega cylinderback info

    Just to be clear - the banjo and mandolin serials may come reasonably close for some eras, especially in the early years before banjo production skyrocketed. For the Pettine Special, the banjo list...
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    Re: Vega cylinderback info

    The electric serials line up with the acoustic serials from the same period; there doesn't appear to be a separate list for electrics. While the cylinder-backed mandolins came out in 1912, the tenor...
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    Re: Vega cylinderback info

    The earliest Vega electric mandolins and guitars have serials in the 35000 range; that would put them 1919-1920 on the banjo list, but Vega did not start building them until around 1935. The earliest...
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    Re: Vega cylinderback info

    There is absolutely no question that the mandolins DO NOT follow the same serial scheme as the banjos. The dates would be off by 10-15 years, depending on the era. There is no known list of serials...
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    Re: Gibson EM-1235 with TWO MANDOLIN NECKS

    I think they were going for a mandolin equivalent to the Double 12 guitar: one neck with single courses, the other neck with doubled courses. Perhaps the upper neck was strung in octaves?
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    Re: This Repurposing Thing Has Gone Too Far

    If it were a banjo there would be nothing unusual about it!


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    Re: Unknown archtop mandolin from USA ?

    That's a very European-looking mandolin. I can believe it's from the '50s, but I strongly doubt it was made in the US.
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    Re: Kay mandolin identification

    It's a K-72. This model was introduced sometime after 1942, appeared in the 1944 catalog, and was gone by the 1948 catalog. The writing does look like a date, but it's not from the factory. The...
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    Re: One more which tuning is best?

    Aside from appealing to mandolin players, 5ths tunings cover a wide range of notes with just 4 strings.
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    Re: One more which tuning is best?

    +1 for GDAE. I always use CGDA on tenor banjo, but the larger soundboard of a guitar - even a small guitar - just seems to work better with the lower tuning.
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    Re: Not your average Gibson tenor

    I did some more research today. Some of my sources turned out to be incorrect when I looked at comparable instruments, and I discovered what appear to be the original tuners and bridge wheels in the...
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    Not your average Gibson tenor

    This was sold as an L-7C tenor, but it clearly isn’t. The body is 16”, smaller than an L-7, and Gibson only used the Florentine cutaway on these smaller bodies. That’s OK by me – I prefer smaller...
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