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Looks like some numpty has been at the stock photo’ library.
Sad when graphic designers have no knowledge of music. They should have asked Carlo. I bet hr is not real happy and probably never even saw the cover.
Hey, at least they had a mandolin (of some sort) and a guitar. I wonder if they supply sound files with an electric mandolin with foam under the bridge.
OTOH have you ever seen paintings of violins even from old masters? They almost never seem to get the proportions correct.
Jim
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Playing lately:
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
Nah. Would not be my first choice of mandolin to show on the book cover, but its ok for the intended audience. Those experienced with Bach are not going to look at the cover very long, and others perhaps intimidated by the subject might even be comforted by the mandolin chosen. Further, if the Bach within is played well even the shown mandolin could make beautiful music.
I think I know what you mean, though, where the beauty and serious effort represented by a book's content is not reflected by the choices or effort put into the cover art and layout. It immediately makes me think someone doesn't understand and another someone is too tired to fight about it anymore. I have no direct knowledge that this is the case, but that is the impression I often get. Also I have no experience in publishing, where they routinely practice the ins and outs of attracting just the right audience balanced against offending those who would purchase it anyway.
My preference for such a book would be a text only cover, with maybe a baroque frame or boarder around.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Nothing like a minuet played with distortion and reverb.
Someone should talk to Hal Leonard and tell them next time to make Carlo Aonzo and John Carlini much larger. Those two would appeal to many of us here to actually buy this book.
On the other hand, they actually got closer with a sensible cover here. I do seem to recall a discussion of the extra knob on the top of this Lyon & Healy mandolin.
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
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
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
It goes nicely with the dreadnought.
Henry, I bought that book a couple years ago, and I have to confess that I never paid much attention to the cover.
For me, the best thing about it is that my copy included two additional folios, one for the guitarist to use and another for the mandolinist. Each contains every sheet of music from the book. Great buy.
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At least they didn't use a uke.
Rob Ross
Apple Valley, Minne-SOH-tah
1996 Flatiron A5-Performer, 1915 Gibson F-2 (loaned to me by a friend), 2008 Kentucky Master KM-505 A-Model
1925 Bacon Peerless tenor banjo (Irish tuning), 1985 Lloyd Laplant F-5, 2021 Ibanez PFT2 Tenor Guitar (GDAE)
and of course, the 1970 Suzuki-Violin-Sha Bowl Back Taterbug
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
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
As usual, Bo knows....
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
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