About a century. The oldest Portugese Mandolin I've ever known of was dated (I think) either 1908 or 1909. The tuners were weird ! Top was flat, back very slightly curved. Kevin. Brad McEwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martina: yes, there is a Portuguese flattopped mandolin. They usuallly have fan style tuners like the guittarra. In fact, they look like a diminutive guittarra but are a mandolin. I don't know how long they've been making them that way, though. Brad
Martina Rosenberger wrote: I have no knowledge about Mandolins, the Walddoline is just a sideline of my Waldzither research. The dates of the brand-list are correct. But as B=F6hm got his ideas from the portuguese guitar, isn't there a portuguese flat-top mandolin? I must admit, that I have no clue, since when the portuguese mandolin is built as a flat-top. Sure one of you can help. Martina Rosenberger "KEVIN LAWTON" schrieb: > 'The earliest confirmed occurence of flattops they've > come up with, is the C. F. Martin model introduced in 1914.' > Frank. The statement above does not seem to be up to your usual levels of > accuracy and intelligence. Would you care to review it - or should I just > argue anyway ? > Kevin. > > Frank Nordberg wrote: Martina Rosenberger wrote: > . > > There is also legal protection found for the brand 'Walddoline', an > inventive word from Wald (forest) and Mandoline in 1905 and 1909. If > there are no other examples of flattop-Mandolins elsewhere, yes, I can > proof the existence in Hamburg with excerpts from the registered > brand-list . > -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1ยข/min. -- --
