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    Default circa 1930 Kay Kraft Style A Mandocello

    This week’s unusual instrument is a circa 1930 Kay Kraft Style A Mandocello. Lightly built and braced with 24 3/8” scale length, adjustable neck, perloid Kay Kraft headstock veneer. Easy to play with surprisingly good tone.

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    Default Re: circa 1930 Kay Kraft Style A Mandocello

    This has been quite a fun series of videos, and a nice job featuring some of the many surprising directions that stringed instruments have branched into over the years!

    For those who'd like a link directly to Mathew Woods' YT channel, here you go >>> LINK
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    Really enjoyable for sure! What are those two pieces that you played here? The first I would assume was a Bach piece but I don't know that I have come across the second ever before .... Are there scores available ?

    Thanks much for having cared for all these great instrument, having the chops to play them, and having the willingness to share them and your playing with all of us.
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    Default Re: circa 1930 Kay Kraft Style A Mandocello

    The first thing is Gavotte I from Bach's Sixth Cello Suite. Gavotte II is really cool as well, and I might have to work up a version of that one too. I just got the cello scores (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics, Bach Six Suites for Violoncello Solo, Vol. 1565 - Revised and Edited by Frits Gaillard, 1939) and tried to keep the fingering similar to the cello score.

    The second thing is just something I made up, no name and no score at least for now.


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    Default Re: circa 1930 Kay Kraft Style A Mandocello

    Some photos too...the photo with the neck removed and the photo of the thumbscrew inside the soundhole are actually from a Kay Kraft guitar with a similar neck adjustment mechanism as the mandocello. I had these photos and didn't feel like removing the mandocello's neck just to take new photos. The rest of the photos are the mandocello.
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    Cool Kay Kraft, but put some pants on, dude!

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    Default Re: circa 1930 Kay Kraft Style A Mandocello

    Ha! I guess I'm old school 1970s when shorts were shorts, but maybe an old fart in shorts is not the best look. I'll go with the blue jeans (or maybe a mandobass) next time. At least it's not a kilt!

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    ok.... you're going to have to get a score written for your piece so, us lazy asses who don't want to spend the time transcribing, can learn it it and make you famous ! It is so much a fun 'cello piece.... good on ya.
    John D

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