Women with Mandolins

[mrmando]

This is probably my favorite photo of Nancy Wilson with a mandolin (thanks to emando.com).

Ooh... that photo needs to go away. The rights belong to a certain well-funded amalgamator of intellectual property rights that charges exorbitant sums for the use of photos. You'll notice I am no longer using it on Emando.com.

[JeffD]

I dug around on the web about her mysterious disappearance and found this link. The circumstances were reflected quite believably in the movie.

She went to a festival where she played mandolin and was later recognized by a banjo player. It is all making sense now.

[mrmando]

Maddie And Tae ...

Interesting. In some of the photos her Epiphone MM50E has the stock NanoMag pickup and in others it's been removed.

She has a capo on fret 1 and the guitarist has a capo on fret 4 ... hm.

Yeah, that's the kind of detail I look for in these photos.

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Just stumbled upon Jenni Lyn Gardner......

I hope you said "Excuse me."

[chasray]

The subject of my very first post on this thread, Lorraine Duisit. Shown here with her band, Mandalele.

Looking at that first photo on page one and then this one, I wonder if she still has that mando on page 1. Nothing wrong with the A though...

[chasray]

referring to post #2665

[jim simpson]

Today marks the 10th anniversary of this thread. Hats off to all women mandolin players today and always. Pics include subject of 1st post: Lorraine Duisit (formerly from Trapezoid), Lorraine with Manalele, Addie Levy, & Elison duo (thanks to Scott Tichenor's post).

[stringalong]

I'm one!

[DavidKOS]

Today marks the 10th anniversary of this thread. Hats off to all women mandolin players today and always. .

Then it's time to post another picture of Donna Stoneman! (hope it's not already on this thread but I'm not going to look at the whole thread to find out)

[Pete Jenner]

Who knew?

[Jess L.]

Who knew?

I'm assuming that picture was digitally edited, aka popularly called "Photoshopped" regardless of whether or not an Adobe product was used to perform the editing. The Queen, as shown in the picture, has very manly hands...

So... anyway... bluejeans & t-shirt *and* a crown, cool mix!

[JEStanek]

That's from a VERY old thread. The hands belong to the Cafe's main hardware guy.

Jamie

[Jess L.]

That's from a VERY old thread. The hands belong to the Cafe's main hardware guy.

Ah, good to know, thanks for clearing that up!

[Pete Jenner]

That's from a VERY old thread. The hands belong to the Cafe's main hardware guy.

Jamie

Oh well that's interesting. A friend who has absolutely nothing to do with mandolins posted it on my facebook page for my birthday.
It's fascinating to see how things get around the interwebz.

[Norbert Feinendegen]

Well ... these are actually not mandolins but Waldzithers.

This is the Girls' group of the Waldzither Club of the Waldzither pioneer C. H. Boehm (in the middle) ca. 1900
The text on the banner reads: "Waldzither Verein von 1899"



And here are the ladies:

[stringalong]

I looked up google images of waldzither's. The look like mandolins. What's the difference between them and the mandolin? I tried to find out but the only thing I could find was on quora, and I don't use quora.

[Norbert Feinendegen]

I looked up google images of waldzither's. They look like mandolins. What's the difference between them and the mandolin? I tried to find out but the only thing I could find was on quora, and I don't use quora.

Waldzithers usually have 9 strings (there are also a few with 14 strings), with the 4 double courses and a single bass string. And they are usually tuned in open C (C-GG-cc-ee-gg). With ca. 70 cm (27''-28"), they have roughly mandola size and a scale length of ca. 46 cm (18").

[Bertram Henze]

I looked up google images of waldzither's. The look like mandolins. What's the difference between them and the mandolin? I tried to find out but the only thing I could find was on quora, and I don't use quora.

They're bigger than mandolins, and they have a single 9th bass string. They served as kind of a predecessor of the Octave Mandolin in the Irish Folk revival, and Andy Irvine played one (with the 9th string removed).

[stringalong]

Thank you, Norbert and Bertram! Well, I learn something new every day! The waldzither must sound very cool with a 9th drone string.

[Norbert Feinendegen]

Thank you, Norbert and Bertram! Well, I learn something new every day! The waldzither must sound very cool with a 9th drone string.

Yes - it does http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/sh...oem-Waldzither

[stringalong]

Beautiful instrument! Thanks for the link.

[Charles E.]

Nancy and Norman Blake.

[seg]

Wow, thanks for posting this video again! I remember seeing this before and I forgot about it , but I really love this tune and I love her playing. I'm gonna try and learn this one!!!

[Charles E.]

Wow, thanks for posting this video again! I remember seeing this before and I forgot about it , but I really love this tune and I love her playing. I'm gonna try and learn this one!!!

I had not realized it had been posted before...oop's.

For those who know Gibson mandolins, is that a Loar she is playing?

[nickster]

I had not realized it had been posted before...oop's.

For those who know Gibson mandolins, is that a Loar she is playing?

I was wondering the same thing?

[Charles E.]

According to "The Mandolin of Norman Blake", published by Homespun tapes, Norman and Nancy owned a 1923 Lloyd Loar F-5. That in addition to other vintage mandolins.