Was just looking at the Bernuzio pics linked from the front page of the Cafe. #Is the mando on top of the pile a left handed F style? #Or am I seeing thing. #It is 1 am in the morn!
Loren
Was just looking at the Bernuzio pics linked from the front page of the Cafe. #Is the mando on top of the pile a left handed F style? #Or am I seeing thing. #It is 1 am in the morn!
Loren
Wait a minute, now I see three left handed models. Negative has gotta be backwards.
Loren
This is F4 32618..
However you flip it, I think at least one of those is a lefty
As far as I can make out, they're all lefty on that pic... The one with the scroll on the "usual" side is actually face down.
It's gotta be a flipped negative
I just went through those photo's and there's another photo of the same group holding the mandolins and they're all righties.
My guess is that the image was developed backwards from upside down negatives or slides, because its just too strange to have that many lefties.
Dan:Originally Posted by (danb @ Feb. 21 2006, 06:15)
I understand the headstock on that F4 being standard, but you would think that they would at least slant "The Gibson" type the other way so it reads well when in playing position.
Jim
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Well the inlay likely came on a sheet that could be cut to fit the peghead. Not so the body or the peghead itself. Pretty interesting piece though, eh?
I noticed the 1 piece bridge on the F4.
Bridge appears to be a later replacement
Thanks, Dan (for all lefties!). Any vintage lefty F5?
Perhaps.., a group of "ambidextrous" mandolin players!?? hee.. hee.. (Truth is stranger than fiction!) - Prof. Moose.
Hmm, I don't have a vintage F5 in the archives. My A4 snakehead was originally set up left-handed though, that's probably more common (just a nut, saddle, and PG to change)
My Loar was a lefty. Or shall I say it was used lefty originally. That's why I had to fix some scratches on the scroll. Think about it, what could be worse than having a scroll on the bottom side of your mandolin (just past the fingerboard)
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
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Or is it?:
Love the outfits.
Check the strings on the bass, too.
Wow.....Its a left handed mando bass, now thats rare
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