Re: Lloyd Loar F5 soundhole aperture area
I have always found it interesting that the Loar-signed mandolas had such delicate F-holes, smaller than the mandolins, especially considering that everything else on the mandolas was "just a little bit bigger."
I have always found the standard Loar F hole size to be slightly excessive, at least from an aesthetic point of view. The very earliest examples from '22, strangely enough, were on the smaller side. I have only built a couple of mandolins, but the F-holes on my personal F5 were cut slightly smaller just because I thought it would be easier to expand them than to decrease them later on. I ended up leaving them that way and combined with a slightly heavier neck (more like an F4) that instrument has a strong bass and midrange response.
But Amsterdam was always good for grieving
And London never fails to leave me blue
And Paris never was my kinda town
So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues
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