Re: Bowlback mandola experiences and recommendations.
Originally Posted by
Beanzy
If threre's no other term defining it as CGDA then you're fairly safe assuming Bowlback mandolas are GDAE, as that was the original version. . . .If you check out Alex T's videos of the Embergher Mandolin Quintet you'll see Ruth Rouw playing one. (Seriously mesmerising elegant fingers).
I got to trade instruments with Ruth for awhile during rehearsals a couple of years back -- Ruth's is an Embergher model made by Lorenzo Lippi. Wonderful instrument, warm, clear, well-defined and balanced. I've played a carved 21-inch OM for years as mandola, but feeling the need to move on to a shorter bowlback. Seeing Carlo Mazzaccara this weekend to pick up that 5-year-old mandola he's had on eBay now and then; will report back.
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