Re: Flatirons - festival, performer, artist, signature
I don't think it's as big of a deal as folks want it to be. Talking Flatiron Arch-top, they did the integrated fretboard on their Festival models - maybe Performer, not sure. My buddy has played a A5 Festival for decades and gets great sound/tone out of that mandolin. No problem hearing what he has to say in a large jam.
Let's think of old Gibsons. Other than their F-5 models they all had integrated fretboards. The A4 with Virzi, the A2Z, etc. all had the integrated fretboard. The mandolin I'll carry to my grave (my 1920 A3) has an integrated fretboard and I love it!
Folks now make all sorts of hybrids in the oval-hole a-model design. Neck joints at the 15th and elevated fretboards. Are they better? Not to me! I don't like them actually!
I have both and disparage neither.
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'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
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