Hello Everyone. I am brand new to this site and to the forum. I started playing mandolin right out of high school. My first instrument was a new Epiphone A model. Over the years, I've owned several mandolins, and I'm looking for information about my current instrument. Since about 1991, I've owned a mandolin with the following information branded inside the soundbox, viewable through the top, scroll soundhole:
Fiddlin'-Around
A.J. LaMarche, Jr.
Phoneix, MD
And just above this branded info, is the numerals "23031," appearing to be written in pencil, and upside down from the branded info.
On the peghead, the MOP inlay reads "La Farte." I was told by the man from whom I traded/purchased this mandolin that it was once used by a mandolin player with the group Paul Adkins and Borderline.
Any information about this mandolin, the luthier, the shop in Maryland, the inlay (which appears to be a play on "la forte," or "with force") or the claim about the instruments use in the Borderline band, would be appreciated.
I can also be reached at
jonathansfather1@gmail.com
P.S. I don't play much anymore. I just get the instrument out every 3 or 4 months and piddle with it a few minutes, then put it back in the old Gibson rectangular case. I'm interested in selling or trading the instrument once I get some information. The current pro set-up was done by the luthier at Fret-N-Fiddle in St. Albans, WV, then under direction of now-deceased and legendary WV musician Joe Dobbs.
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