I am not sure but I believe that model is actually an F-ed Up 4....
I am not sure but I believe that model is actually an F-ed Up 4....
It an F-4 the italics mandolin.
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Creativity is just doing something wierd and finding out others like it.
Looks like Guy Clark's description of the inspiration for his song "Picasso's Mandolin."
So if it turns out to be pre-1894, would that mean Gibson copied it?
-- Don
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2002 Gibson F-9
2016 MK LFSTB
1975 Suzuki taterbug (plus many other noisemakers)
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It is funny but I was just looking in my pile of mandolins and came across this "lovely" lump scroll which certainly competes with the one discussed in this thread. I bought on eBay back in 2012 as a service to all you folks here so you would not have to spend your hard earned money on such an oddity. It is funny though: I just tapped on the top and it does have some tonal potential.
For more of these kind of things, check out this wonderful long thread about all these oddball mandolins we come across.
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
Jim, you really took one for the team there!
This reminds me of the resident evil games where the bad guy always mutates into some kind of monstrous abomination towards the end of the game
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
Same problem or even worse. I worked as a picture framer for many, many years. A woodblock print came through for framing, titled Angel With a Mandolin. The "mandolin" had a peghead bent at a 90° angle, à la lute, and even though it was a bowl back, the poor dear angel had it tucked under her chin and was going after it with a bow, which she held in her left hand.
Oh lordy, I wonder if that was her inspiration! I always figured the angel had it in the wrong hand in the block print because the printmaker forgot things print as a mirror image.
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