Hi Jean,
That would be great. Your work has been invaluable in understanding Curti.
Jack
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Hi Jean,
That would be great. Your work has been invaluable in understanding Curti.
Jack
Found an advertisement in which William J. Derr and his brother Charles B. Derr advertised as dealers in stringed instruments, Toledo, Ohio, 1925 city directory.
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I like the Lyon and Healy possibility. I have a “student conservatory” version, with 15 ribs. The Derr has nine, comparable to a lower end instrument(?) My Lyon and Healy has been partially restored...
Thanks. I was wondering how late these might have been likely sold. I checked census records and found him listed consistently as a music teacher in Toledo starting in 1903, through 1940. Perhaps he...
After you said that, I finally was able to find them online. The tuners aren’t original, but appear to be Grover 304C Sta-Tite Mandolin Tuners in chrome. So there has been some restoration done.
A yard sale find in Western Montana, thanks to my mother, got me researching a brand called “Derr.” Unfortunately the inside label is gone, but otherwise it’s intact. It took a while to find the...
I am getting your book! It has been in my list. I've been pursuing old research. Perhaps now for something up to date!
I think I first noticed this painting while looking at a video of Ugo Orlandi. It is sitting in the background while he plays. I now see it is the history museum in Zagreb, where the painting lives....
I appreciate your looking. I wonder what a bowl that was actually that deep would sound like.
I read somewhere that the painter Vjekoslav Karas was in Rome when he created this painting. Online, the instrument is called a lute, but I believe that comes from either generalization or from the...
I'd also like to publicly thank Michael Reichenbach, who runs Mando Island. His page made me aware of the available mandolin method by Leone.
For those interested in a bit of history, I compiled some online sources on Gabriele Leone into a Wikipedia article. If anyone knows of better references, please let me know.
From Wikipedia:
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Got a book with several pics of citterns. I found one on the internet that looks similar to the painting. This was done by Johannes Theodorus Cuypers in 1776:
Won't let me upload tonight, but link...
I didn't mean to hide it. I ended up placing it into the fourth paragraph in the United States section. It worked to give perspective for how big the mandolin had become in the United States by...
If a cittern, could it be an English guitar?
Thank you for posting that. I added a paragraph from it to the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandolin#Mandolin_orchestras_and_classical-music_virtuosos
This picture has been labeled mandolin in the Wikimedia Commons. It was painted in 1762 by Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). I am thinking it may be a mandola, based on its size, and have tentatively...
National Public Radio just ran a piece about them. https://www.npr.org/2018/08/14/638629428/che-apalache-hopes-to-open-minds-and-ears-with-their-latin-bluegrass-fusion
Assembling a piece of mandolin history from China. Guan Zilan (關紫蘭), daughter of a Shanghai cloth manufacturer in the early 1900s, became a professional painter and studied in Japan. Later she taught...
I just posted a new article on Wikipedia for the classical mandolinist Giovanni Vailati (1815-1890). Most of it comes from Philip J. Bone's book, The Guitar and Mandolin, but I found some new...
That is my first guess so far too. I know someone out there must be in the know about old Martin mandolins...:grin:
I came across a photo I'd like to share. I'm hoping someone might narrow down the instrument the Lloyd Loar is holding. The picture is from the 1906 Oberlin College yearbook the Hi-O-Hi. I believe...
How about early mandolinists such as Seth Weeks, Valentine Abt, Samuel Siegel. Should they make such a limited list? Should they displace anyone on it?
One of Wikipedia's backroom projects a list of articles considered most "vital" to have exist in all of its multiple language encyclopedias. There is a section listed for mandolin players, although...
It is there now.