Libations?Originally Posted by mtucker
I get the wear on the ridge caused by the strap obviously but not on the curl. Here's MM's Loar with the same scroll wear. I guess if I were a virtuoso I might know maybe...any explanation?
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Libations?I get the wear on the ridge caused by the strap obviously but not on the curl. Here's MM's Loar with the same scroll wear. I guess if I were a virtuoso I might know maybe...
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Sam Bush goes way up the neck with his pick. Wouldn't be surprised to see facial wear on the scroll after a lot of that kind of play, resting the base of the thumb there to pivot.I get the wear on the ridge caused by the strap obviously but not on the curl. Here's MM's Loar with the same scroll wear. I guess if I were a virtuoso I might know maybe...
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Strange . . . I love the look of lots of honest play wear on a mandolin - but not so much on any other instrument. Go figure.
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Aside from a few dings on the back, here's the only wear on my '23 A2. At one point it was my only mandolin and I have had it for about 34 years. I avoided Statman wear by playing with the pickguard/fingerrest. OTOH I don't play anywhere near as well as AS.
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I've posted these before -- my snake came with some pretty honest wear, although the back is pretty clean.
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Did your snakehead come with the aluminum bridge saddle? I've always wanted to hear one of those but thought that they were more common on the earlier ~1921 era paddleheads.
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My black snakehead net yours a few years ago. They got along just fine.
Jim
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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
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And I've got to add that I met Randi's snakehead just a couple of months back and it is an amazing instrument. What a gem you have there, Randi!
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Pheffernan -- the bridge does, indeed, hark back to 1921, for all the body is from 1923, and i love the sound! It really is a special instrument.
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
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