Good luck with your purchase and welcome to the club - though I confess I might have offered to sell you mine if I'd spotted you were looking (I have something else in the works, I apparently I can't...
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Good luck with your purchase and welcome to the club - though I confess I might have offered to sell you mine if I'd spotted you were looking (I have something else in the works, I apparently I can't...
Tis a strange one: definitely carbon fibre, yes the fibres run along the length, yes seems to be reasonably well fixed in (I can't see it move when flexing the neck, I was hoping it might have pulled...
Folks, I have a strum-stick in the 'shop with an unreasonably bendy neck (I can make it bend quite easily with my fingers), it only has to manage 4 lightly strung dulcimer strings but can't cope even...
Wow, nice job so far!
My opinion of Stridente's is that they sound nice, but have a quite profound tendency to self-destruct :(
Traditionally these had "shelf" bridges like this:
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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...
We need to see more, and that instrument is going to need a heck of lot more than just a bridge.
Or it's time to change those strings: I use EFW74's - also long lasting, but I change the plain strings every few months as they loose some sweetness after that.
Good luck with that - last time I had to do that, I bought appropriate thickness strip and cut it down... it took ages!
Yes absolutely. What I was trying to say, was that once you have some measure of asymmetry, either in the top construction (bracing) or soundhole placement (side port), then that cancellation *may*...
So much subtlety, and so much we don't understand yet, but... the defining difference between the instruments you mention is generally the width of the top, as well as the level of activity of the...
+1 on that.
The "thicker" sound from US style archtop mandolins comes from their construction method - relatively thick strong and ached tops with much heavier strings. Flattop mandolins -...
If only I could remember what I said I might be amused - my apologies for any inadvertent offence!
<Sorry... that UK usage has a different meaning in the U.S.>
All good advice, but this is a 6 year old thread ;)
For me the biggest issue is tuner buttons that turn the "wrong way" that just really bugs me. Back in the day though they weren't too fussy about these things, I've seen original tuners in all 4...
Interesting to find a US made bowl over this side of the pond, our American colleagues will no doubt have a better idea about the maker. Lovely looking instrument though!
What Randi said about...
From what I can tell from internet photos there's no truss rod, and the fretboard is flat not radiused? You may need the frets levelling and dressing (and no, the "box shifters" do NOT do that...
Afterwards for me, though I don't have "floating" fretboard extensions to worry about. I feel it's easier to get a good level fretboard that way - so less fret levelling afterwards. The thing is...
As far as the acoustic of the instrument goes, the shape of the bowl matters very little compared to it's overall volume. There's also some good research that shows bowlback backs participate very...
I think it depends - certainly that is a "mode of failure" for Neapolitans, this is not to say there isn't downward pressure on the top though, and of course US bowls with their less arched tops tend...
A few ideas here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlnUGKXjWJE&t=28s
Thanks Tom: they do sound good, but mostly I can't help but think that I'm hearing the room as much as the mandolin. I also just flat out disagree with the line that "Most mandolins play sharp on...
+1 on what others have said, you're going to need a ships cable on that low G. Good luck with the fingering!
In addition to what Dave said, I would say that the paper is strong on measuring, and short on conclusions ;)
They did note that the bowl has effectively no contribution to the resonances, that...
I'd reiterate what others have said - plug the instrument and preamp into a recording interface, and either monitor directly via headphones, or record and playback. You could even compare directly...