Interesting instrument - I wonder how old it is? Bowl seems very shallow compared to the regular Neapolitans... looks too new as well. If someone pushed me up against a wall and forced me to guess, I would say 1960's or 70's and German made, but who knows? Very cool wherever it came from!
Yeah, thanks for enjoying. I think it is a new one (according to my wife?) and the bowl is a little bit shallow than the original. I will take some time for some pictures more from the whole things.
Very pretty; it looks a lot like some of the made in China or Vietnam instruments.
Take some full-on shots, front, back and sides. The detailed ones are all right but it is good to get an overall view.
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
By the way its inlays is, without label with a normal tailpiece, bridge...I guess it could be made in vietnam or china which is order for the european market (china and vietnam always have a greal deal of high quality woods but low in labor cost). But the head on the headstock somehow shows that this instrument was build for some private orders and it may be limited one. When I received this gift from my wife, I thought It could be the last one that had been in stock from the factory for a long long time. It's quite new without any touching on the surface, fret or fretboard....the inlays are faded by the time but the tailpiece and tuners look like they are just installed. I really want to share some media about this but I don't know what I should use for recording now. Its sound is probably sweet, warm and round. I've just take some new pictures in details, hope everybody would help me for some specifications from it.
Last edited by Q Pham; Jun-22-2015 at 10:32pm.
Very pretty, and I'd say Asian made for sure.
A little bit more complicated and different than originals but I think the luthier tried their best to bring this thing on the way back to past hundreds of years. I'm so happy with this.
Very pretty indeed. But there's nowhere to clip on a tuner! (Or do her eyes light up red when it's flat, yellow when it's sharp, and green when it's on in tune?)
It ain't gotta be perfect, as long as it's perfect enough!
A small try with my Nokia C5 camera to make this instrument sound, hope the bad audio quality won't fail you all.
Q Pham, thanks for the demonstration. I really think that the mandolin could benefit from new strings and being in tune. However, I still appreciated your performance.
Bill Snyder
Thanks, I'm also thinking of a approximate string set but I still do not know which manufacturer would be okay for a bowlback.
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Eye candy nontheless. Looks great.
Four year old thread.
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
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