belbein
The bad news is that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. The good news is that what kills us makes it no longer our problem
It looks like a mandolin banjo, also called a banjolin. I'm a little surprised at the year but the instrument is well known on these pages. The interesting thing is that it appears that it might be an American made instrument.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mand...w=1920&bih=916
https://www.google.com/search?client...67.oRiabBfSaHk
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
The picture enlarged a bit.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
I guess it could have been taken after she got to the US. The place could have been misidentified, but zi think the year is digit within 5 years or so.
belbein
The bad news is that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. The good news is that what kills us makes it no longer our problem
Wikipedia on "mandolin banjo": "Inventors were experimenting to create amplified instruments in the days before electric amplification.[2] The first patent for a mandolin-banjo was taken out in 1882 by Benjamin Bradbury of Brooklyn.[2] The name banjolin was first patented by John Farris in 1885.[2] The instrument was popularized prior to the 1920s, when the tenor banjo became more popular. In the heyday of mandolin orchestras and banjo bands (late 19th–early 20th century), all sorts of instruments were produced. The mandolin-banjo is one of the hybrids that resulted. It enabled mandolinists to produce a banjo sound without having to learn that instrument's fingerings. The instrument adds the banjo's volume to the mandolin... "
belbein
The bad news is that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. The good news is that what kills us makes it no longer our problem
5 years would bring it up to about where I figured it should be. The mandolin was losing favor, the banjo was taking over. Banjo mandolins were a way for mandolin players to move into the banjo world. It's too bad you don't have the instrument to go with the picture, that would be really cool. It's a nice picture.
By the way, I think that picture might be on board a ship or a ferry. It looks pretty nautical.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
looks like a Slingerland MB?
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