Re: Should a Beginner use a Marco Rebora Mandolin?
Well, as Peter says, that's our old friend, Dave Hyndes, who's done the restoration and is demonstrating there.
He does very good work restoring and resurrecting old Italian bowlbacks.
I own a couple of proper DeMeglio bowlbacks and they are very nice mandolins. Like David, I love bowlback mandolins and play just about anything on them, though I do favor the Italian ballo liscio and classic Neapolitan era songs.
And I at least try to play in a proper seated position.
I've often wondered about the progeny of these so-called DeMeglio 'copies'...supposing that many of them likely could have been made by the DeMeglio folks, themselves. Some of them are almost exact facsimiles. And the DeMeglio output was prodigious.
If you want to play the mandolin, starting with a nice, restored bowlback would seem like a good place to me.
Mick
Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
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