:confused: If you're not seeing it, then there's nothing more I can say.
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:confused: If you're not seeing it, then there's nothing more I can say.
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:
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...
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....
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).
These were not built by Slingerland; the only stringed instruments they ever built were banjos. These were built by Regal.
Nah, that saying was around long before the show.
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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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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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
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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If it were a banjo there would be nothing unusual about it!
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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.
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...
Aside from appealing to mandolin players, 5ths tunings cover a wide range of notes with just 4 strings.
+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.
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...
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...