Women with Mandolins

**Plamen Ivanov** · Jan-25-2006, 3:06am

And there`s also this one:

**Plamen Ivanov** · Jan-25-2006, 3:13am

And this Bulgarian lady:

**Bertram Henze** · Jan-25-2006, 3:34am

Originally Posted by (ira @ Jan. 24 2006, 23:08)

what are those huge double instrument/necked things some of the folks above are playing???

I think these are resonance string guitars - the extra strings are not played but make sympathy tones for a long sustain (just what you want to avoid between bridge and tailpiece on mandos, but here at least they can be tuned properly).

Bertram

**Paul Hostetter** · Jan-25-2006, 4:21am

Bertram - they're not "resonance string guitars." I don't think there is such a thing. Perhaps you were thinking of guitars with sympathetic strings? The low strings are called sub-basses, and they are actually plucked and played deliberately. These instruments are called harp guitars, and are decended from theorboes and archlutes and the like, which were played in similar fashion. There are a few mandolins made in this style too.

**Michael Wolf** · Jan-25-2006, 4:39am

Seems like these harp guitars are related to the "Schrammel Gitarre" from Vienna, which also has additional bass strings on an second neck. They also have a musical genre called "Schrammel Musik".
On "Serenata" from Beppe Gambetta/Carlo Aonzo, Beppe is playing such an harp guitar, which was reconstructed by an italien luthier. They wanted to play their italien "turn of the century music" on authentic instruments. Beppe told very interesting storys about this subject at the concert.

Cheers
Michael

**Klaus Wutscher** · Jan-25-2006, 5:01am

Here in Vienna, "Schrammel" is alive and well. It is a typical folk music from Vienna, sung in Vienese accent and the lyrics are either funny, morbid or obscene; the good ones are all three at the same time.

The guitars that are known in the states as "harp guitars" are called in Austria "Schrammelgitarre" or sometimes "Kontragitarre". To the best of my knowledge these instruments were invented in Austria. Don´t quote me on that, though!. They still pop up occasionally on flea markets, allthough most of them are in a sad shape.

**grandmainger** · Jan-25-2006, 5:03am

And of course, there's always Milla Jovovitch...

The image below is blurred by me... Scott has the original somewhere in "the pub".

**jim simpson** · Jan-25-2006, 8:04am

It would be distracting to be in her backup band!

**Ken Berner** · Jan-25-2006, 9:50am

grandmainger, I am so proud to own a Flatiron mandolin; she would have made a great national sales rep!

**mandopete** · Jan-25-2006, 10:14am

Man, I was censored for a picture like that! #It's a slippery slope...

**John Uhrig** · Jan-25-2006, 10:30am

and here is another

**Moose** · Jan-25-2006, 10:54am

Looks like she's really "bent-out'a-shape" 'bout something: - post-menopausal syndrome...!!??## - sexual frustration..!!??## ;tight corset!??## ; ... ; can't find-it"??.. -I'd suggest... a few "libations".. Moose.

**Jim M.** · Jan-25-2006, 11:22am

And of course, J-Lo:

**billkilpatrick** · Jan-25-2006, 11:24am

kids, moms and tiny tim aside ... that has to be the sexiest line-up of musicians ever!

**gschmidt** · Jan-25-2006, 11:26am

Here's my fav...

**mandoryan** · Jan-25-2006, 11:44am

HELLO Milla!!!!

I, for one, would love to be in her backup band,distracting or not.

**SternART** · Jan-25-2006, 12:27pm

Becky Smith, up in Idaho, is a great mandolin player!

**SternART** · Jan-25-2006, 12:29pm

Becky jammin' with the DGQ when they played in Boise.

**MML** · Jan-25-2006, 1:21pm

MOMMA MILLA....I think I died and gone to heaven

**Plamen Ivanov** · Jan-25-2006, 1:49pm

One more picture of Caterina Lichtenberg:

**acousticphd** · Jan-25-2006, 2:05pm

Here's Frances Cunningham of Nashville, bouzouki (10 string - maybe that's a cittern?) and mando player #- she has played/plays with various Celtic-flavored groups I'm not that familiar with, but I've been able to hear her play several times at the Nashville Contradances.

**bluesmandolinman** · Jan-25-2006, 2:24pm

Andra Faye from Saffire

**Jim M.** · Jan-25-2006, 2:46pm

Beth Patterson:

**danb** · Jan-25-2006, 2:49pm

Hey! I remember Frances from Zoukfest #1. How cool, I'll have to check up on her stuff.

circa 1998, zoukfest1:

Beth's actually 50% of why my CD was called "shatter the calm". We'd both just received our Steve Smith zooks (her's was the one made just after mine) and started WAILING on them in what we thought was a quiet alcove at the cavernous cellars of an old brewery that were host to ZF 1. Actually, it turns out there was a quiet slow teaching session below, which we more or less nailed with a neutron zook bomb. The guy leading it stormed by saying "nice tune, what's it called.. SHATTER THE CALM??"

**Michael H Geimer** · Jan-25-2006, 3:03pm

Hey ... I recognize Eva Scow from a jam at last Strawberry. She and her teenage, giggly friends wandered into a jam, where she (of course) blew everyone away before heading off into the evening ... perhaps in search of fun with people closer to her own age. She has a great latin flavor to her playing.

Note: I was already being way out picked before she arrived, and so I put down my mandolin *fast* when she joined that circle.

- Benig ... who keeps an 'unblurred' Milla photo at home, to peek at from time to time. Ahhh. What a beautiful Flatiron!