A Neapolitan one

[Q Pham]

A gift from my wife. I haven't known its specifications but I'm totally pleased with it sound. This is a custom-made Neapolitan one without label. I still don't have enough tools for a fine recording so I cannot tell you how it does sound.

Here is some pictures from this lady

[Tavy]

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!

[Q Pham]

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.

[DavidKOS]

Very pretty; it looks a lot like some of the made in China or Vietnam instruments.

[Jim Garber]

Take some full-on shots, front, back and sides. The detailed ones are all right but it is good to get an overall view.

[Q Pham]

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.

[Q Pham]

[DavidKOS]

Very pretty, and I'd say Asian made for sure.

[Q Pham]

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.

[Steve VandeWater]

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?)

[DavidKOS]

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?)

I think you can fit a Snark on the side of the carved figure on the peghead.

Hey, it's a traditional mandolin....tune it by ear the old fashioned way. When did the world get reliant on electronic tuners so that everyone has one sprouting off their instruments?

[Q Pham]

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?)

Amazing thought but i prefer traditional way to have it in tune by a piano or violin so on. I wonder how it could be when a luthier could make the head talk while i'm playing haha.

[Q Pham]

A small try with my Nokia C5 camera to make this instrument sound, hope the bad audio quality won't fail you all.

[Bill Snyder]

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.

[Q Pham]

Thanks, I'm also thinking of a approximate string set but I still do not know which manufacturer would be okay for a bowlback.

[Lord of the Badgers]

Those Snark tuners are getting a bit ornate lately.

[Edster]

Eye candy nontheless. Looks great.

[Jim Garber]

Four year old thread.