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[VIHUELA] Re: OT: any ideas on this mandolin?

Rob MacKillop
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:54:54 -0700

photo?

On 04/04/2008, Stuart Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> My boss at work brought in an old mandolin which belongs to a friend.
> Evidently it has been lying around in a farmhouse attic for years. She would
> just like to know something about it; she has no illusions about its value.
> She thinks it has been in the family for about a hundred years and that it
> came from (and even - was made?? in the West Country - surely unlikely).
>
> I know very little about mandolins. It's got some features that I haven't
> seen on mandolins before: side holes, a strip of wood behind the bridge
> fixed to the soundboard -  and the bridge seems rather odd too.
>
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>
> Stuart
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