Re: The First Loar F-5 I Ever Played
Originally Posted by
MikeZito
This was back in my very early days as a mandolin player - I knew OF Loar mandolins, but didn't really know anything ABOUT them.
I may be crazy, and there is no way that I can go back in time, but I SWEAR that the mandolin that I played was an oval; (I remember being disappointed when I saw the mandolin, because I was not an oval hole guy at the time, and I was looking for an f-hole mandolin) and I also distinctly remember the owner of the store specifically showing me the the label inside, to point out that I was indeed signed by Loar.
Perhaps it was an F-5 that foolishly got badly re-topped in the 1930's (which could explain why it was such a beast)? Who knows.
Poo-poo it all you want, but that's my story I'm sticking to it . . .
I'm not going to "pop-poo" anyone but my guess is that someone (not at Kalamazoo) put a fake label in that F-4 for some reason. There were of course F-2s and F-4s built during the years that Loar worked for Gibson but I have never heard of him signing any of them. They were not his "babies".
He signed only the Master Model series instruments. F-5, H-5, K-5 and L-5.
Loar is credited with the Mastertone banjos too and afaik he never signed those either? Or did he?
Bernie
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