NFI, but saw this cool looking gourd mandolin (dated, supposedly to 1957, although they don't say how) on ShopGoodwill.com: https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/87897853
For posterity:
NFI, but saw this cool looking gourd mandolin (dated, supposedly to 1957, although they don't say how) on ShopGoodwill.com: https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/87897853
For posterity:
Very cool, in its way, and well worth the price. You gonna go for it?
Very nice! Tuning might be a little tricky in the current state....
Mick
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I'm not in the race. I shouldn't even be looking at that site! I have no room for the instruments that need repair as it is! Sigh.
That is a cool folk-instrument but my guess that it is primarily wall-hanging fodder. I don't believe that a gourd is strong enough to withstand full mandolin tension. Usually you have something like a banjo dowel stick running from the neck through to the tailpiece end. If it stays at that price might be fun to fool around with it but I am not even sure the nine frets it has are even in the right place.
Jim
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Maybe the bridge alone is worth the price; highest mandolin bridge I've seen...
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Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
I've seen way worse action on many a bowlback.....pairs of nylon strings? Tailpiece is worth 15 clams.
Back in the early 90s I was one of the founders of the Texas Chapter of the American Gourd Society.
They still have their obsessive appeal.
Mick
Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
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'06 Bialetti expresso maker
'14 Irish Linen Ramon Puig
This is a true story. When I was about 5 years of age, my grandfather decided it was the time for me to learn how to swim. The old Italian way. He tied two large dry gourds to my chest with a piece of old rope, and then he threw me into the crystal clear Mediterranean water. Obviously, the gourds did very little in terms of keeping my head above water, although they themselves were staying afloat just great. The net result was that I had to start swimming without delay. Yup, that was the venerable Italian trick: sink or swim in the true sense of the word.
Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
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'05 Cuisinart Toaster
'93 Chuck Taylor lowtops
'12 Stetson Open Road
'06 Bialetti expresso maker
'14 Irish Linen Ramon Puig
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