This is kind of fun... Ralph Wright's grandson asked me to restore this Orpheum #2.
If you don't know, who Ralph Wright was, he was the one of the main guys who wrote the Aristocats, Jungle Book adaptation, Bambi, etc. He was also one of the main animators on the Winnie the Pooh movies, and was the original voice of Eeyore. And apparently, played mandolin extensively, based on the shape of this instrument and a little Martin mandolin I set up at the same time.
I put a new calfskin head on it and got it sorted. It sounds great. Plunky, rich, and perennially out of tune.
The headstock broke off at some point, and is stable due to an effective, if unorthodox, repair we believe to have been done by Mr. Wright himself.
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