https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/a...e-a97e00abe2dc
If someone not on an iPad could find some way of posting an image, I’d be grateful!
https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/a...e-a97e00abe2dc
If someone not on an iPad could find some way of posting an image, I’d be grateful!
Brentrup Model 23, Boeh A5 #37, Gibson A Jr., Flatiron 1N, Coombe Classical flattop, Strad-O-Lin
https://www.facebook.com/LauluAika/
https://www.lauluaika.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Longtine-Am...14404553312723
The link goes to the sale for me. This is a little bit larger copy of the image. I'm not sure I'd pay anywhere near the auction estimate for that.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
I managed to find it searching the auction site. Maybe this link will work.
https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/a...e-a97e00abe2dc
At 350€ ($402 US), who knows what will happen.
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams
Is that supposed to be something along the line of a Stroh?
Thanks for the photo. Both links work for me - perhaps it’s because I’m in Europe?
Looks to have the bridge mounted on two gramaphone horns; somewhat like a phono-fiddle?
Thought it mught amuse people!
It does come with a case and is that a Waverley tailpiece?
Link works for me fine, too.
I think the auction description is plain wrong:
"Rare Banjolo Musical Instrument, c. 1920 Germany, manufactured by mandolin builder Marcelli in cooperation with gramophone manufacturer Nirona, hexagonal wood body, 2 Nirona soundboxes, 8 strings, in fitted case."
Almost certainly, neither Marcelli nor Nirona knew this instrument existed: Marcelli were a maker of hardware, and their name is often engraved on tailpieces by many other makers. It's a bit like saying "mandolin by Waverly" for an anonymous vintage mandolin with a cloud tailpiece. Nirona made gramophones. So, somebody cobbled together this mandolin from two Nirona-branded gramophone resonators and a Marcelli tailpiece and presumably a scavenged mandolin neck from somewhere else.
Here is a Nirona gramophone. Note the bell-shaped resonator looks much like those on the mandolin.
Looks cool, but I think it's an amateur concoction.
Martin
Both links work for me and I'm in the US.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Banjolo might be a contraction of banjo and YOLO. If you play that instrument there is a significant danger that someone nearby will simply kill you to make it stop.
Mitch Lawyer
Collings MF5V, Schwab #101 5 string
1918 Gibson A, 1937 Gibson T-50 tenor guitar
Jones OM, Hums bowlback
This link works for me in my browser to take me directly to the item listing. The links above go to the home page of that site.
For some reason that link does not work here.
In any case that looks like a strange contraption. Also, the body depth looks really thin.
Rereading Martin Jonas' post, I think he figured it out. Probably a home-made cobbled-together contraption.
Last edited by Jim Garber; Oct-21-2018 at 2:00pm.
Jim
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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
Link is the same result for me.
This...errr...instrument reminded me somehow of this...
https://pin.it/5nfwt2igjwqa3g
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
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
Both links work ok for me as well. The URL of the link that Jim Garber posted, is the same as the original that Ray posted. Here's a larger,more detailed pic.
I suppose that there was some type of reasoning behind building this,but what it might be escapes me - or ''makes a break for it !''.
The 'bridge' spans the tops of what i think are 2 metal resonant chambers. Unless they're well damped,i can only imagine the sound to be hellish !,
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
It looks like somebody put a couple of hubcaps on a stop sign . . . . .
At first I thought it was a barometer and thermometer that looked like an instrument!
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