Re: Help Identifying Mandolin
Originally Posted by
westquote
... wondering if the all-metal tuners provide any clues ...
... ya mean, other than that they look like poor imitations of Grover's economy tuners that you can get for $20 on ebay? Or that they're installed poorly with re-drilled holes, some shafts at hokey angles, and most barely lining up side to side? Or that folks couldn't be bothered to trim the string ends to at least look neat for a sales attempt? (Okay, that last one was just grousing.) Sorry if I'm sounding harsh but ...
The elegant-seeming inlays remind me of the Antoniostai (spell?) instruments, and some others from S/E Asia, that have FAR-less-than-stellar reputations around here. My personal experience was a classy-looking F-shaped & highly inlaid guitar that, 8 or 10 years ago, The Kennedys had implode in the middle of their set here in northern NJ. Couldn't get an image to attach, but if you look up The Kennedy's "Better Dreams" CD (out of print), you'll see two of them on the album cover. The guitars DO look great, but I suspect that both are long-gone by now.
YES, this is a warning!
Last edited by EdHanrahan; Jan-21-2020 at 1:19pm.
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