Information about bowl back mandolin

**Mannyic_3** · Jan-13-2019, 1:23pm

So I am new in the mandolin world and my grandfather just gave me one he found in his old house. It looks kinda old but beautiful.

What I was looking for was information about it, im not really trying to sell it or anything, but since im new in this, I wanted to learn all I could about it.

I found someone sell one online, but no actual information on it.

Thanks!

**TC-in-NC** · Jan-13-2019, 1:45pm

Hi Mannyic_3!

Welcome! There are others here who are more knowledgable than I am when it comes to bowl back mandolins, but I did some searching and found another Orpheus mandolin mentioned here at the Café - https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/t...pheus-Mandolin

Is there a label inside of yours (or any other numbers / letters)? If so, please try to post pictures of them as well. They may go a long way to helping the folks here identify what you have.

Tammy

**Jim Garber** · Jan-13-2019, 7:13pm

This one is not really like the one in the linked thread above. It looks to me to be similar to ones made by the Suzuki Company. I had one made in the 1970s and those are not so special. I know that some more recent models are nicer and more lightly built. This one does look possibly newer maybe 1980s. Labels might help. I would guess it was made in Japan, in any case.