Wound up with this beautiful Peter Coombe mandolin this past week. Spent both yesterday and today playing it at gigs. Played and sounds like a dream. Definitely not a Gibson tone. But with the music I play, that's fine. In fact, it may be an advantage. It's a gorgeous instrument. The opal inlays are really amazing to look at. Neck is a wonderful profile and the radius fingerboard is very comfortable.
Details - it's #248 with Englemann spruce top, Australian Blackwood back, sides (and neck?), ebony fingerboard, Schaller GrandTune tuners, Australian opal inlays, Brekke flattop bridge.
And here is a video from today. Cell phone quality with excessive wind noise, but it does show how the instrument sounds in a duo with fiddle.
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