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No, I haven't. It almost looks to me as if "Kitolin" was coined up as a contraction of kithara-mandolin.
Fan frets or bad drawing?
I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.
Isn't 'Kitolin' one of those rapid weight loss programs....?
Actually I did see one for sale the other day but I thought it was just a mandolin
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Pretty early f hole guitar-like instrument, isn't it? I have no idea when f hole guitars originated.
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Then google J.W. Jenkins mandolin.Mandolin and guitar at MandolinCafe.
The patent, granted in 1900, seems to cover the tuning mechanism as well as the fan-frets—could be the first of its kind in US? Very interesting.
The 1905 article I found in Swedish mentions the Kitolin (translated through Google Translate:
Edgren has also started a business relationship with the big music company Kohler & Chase, which will sell the band's patented and award-winning new musical instrument "The Edgren Kitolin".
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Fan frets and the bridge is not fanned at all ... is there any possible chance of actual "intonation"?? Other than, ya know, the bad kind?
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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
Maybe when it was built the old guitar wasn't so imperfect.
All these years I figured uncle Adolph just didn't know how to spell our last name, now I find out he couldn't cut frets straight either.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
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Even more amazing was when Uncle Adolph tried to mate the kitten with a mandolin.
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