Some time ago someone asked about a carved top bowlback. As a joke I put the image together of a ca. 1908 Gibson top on a Vega bowlback (see attached).
Little did I know that this 1910 mandolin existed and was at Gruhn's.
Jim
Some time ago someone asked about a carved top bowlback. As a joke I put the image together of a ca. 1908 Gibson top on a Vega bowlback (see attached).
Little did I know that this 1910 mandolin existed and was at Gruhn's.
Jim
Jim
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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
hey, nice photoshop work
I've played that mandolin now at Gruhn's. It was sold to George by a friend of mine in Iowa City when they convened upon the Ohio Guitar Show one snowy afternoon a couple years ago. It is a very neatly made piece.
Eugene:
Do you think that Samuel Siegel had ever played that one? Wasn;t he born in Iowa? Maybe lived there ca. 1910?
Jim
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
I doubt the piece originated in Iowa. Next I see the ex-owner (probably in ca. 6 months), I'll ask him where he found the piece and what he knows of it. For some reason, I seem to remember him thinking it originated in Germany...but I'm not certain why.
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