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!
For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
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!
Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
Do you mean this one?
For some reason your link just goes to the main auction site on my computer. Never seen anything like it before.
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Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
Me too. Can you post a link to that...errr...particular item?Originally Posted by Eric Platt
Do you mean this one?
For some reason your link just goes to the main auction site on my computer. Never seen anything like it before.
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Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
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.
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Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
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.
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Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
Is that supposed to be something along the line of a Stroh?
Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
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?
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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
Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
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
Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
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.
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Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
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.
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Link is the same result for me.
This...errr...instrument reminded me somehow of this...
https://pin.it/5nfwt2igjwqa3g
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Great minds run on the same gutter. I thought the same thing.
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Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
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 !,
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Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
Without wanting to defend the design unduly, that principle at least is much the same as the bridge used by John Dopyera for his original tricone design:
Which raises the question as to whether this one predates Dopyera's 1927 design or not...
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Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
It looks like somebody put a couple of hubcaps on a stop sign . . . . .
Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
At first I thought it was a barometer and thermometer that looked like an instrument!
Re: For the Record - unusual 20’s mandolin
It does have a vaguely nautical look to it.At first I thought it was a barometer and thermometer that looked like an instrument!
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