I'm working on some Ellis related projects at the moment, and one of them is working with players to track down and document their Ellis mandolins.
What I'm hoping to do is get in touch with as many Ellis owners here on the cafe to work with them to get photographs taken of the instruments in a few positions, documentation on serial number and build date, and get them added to the archive online.
You can see what we've collected so far here.
In an ideal world, I would love to link to any youtube videos of your mandolin being played, or soundcloud files, or any audio recordings. The goal is to see and hear how these instruments sound!
For those of you who don't want to post publicly about your instrument, this can be as confidential as you like--just send me a PM and I would be happy to have an offline conversation.
We've got almost a dozen instruments listed right now, and many of them are thanks to the folks over at The Music Emporium (Thanks, Andy!). There are also a variety of mandolins from Cafe members in the collection as well.
I would love to hear from you, and I hope everybody will appreciate having some more instruments archived for us to appreciate and stoke our collective MAS with.
Cheers,
-Scott
P.S. If you are a passionate player of another small shop builder, and you'd like to see us have an archive for them as well--let's talk!
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