David Kilpatrick wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>> There's an instrument for sale at Pamela's --> no rose, £550 >>> http://www.pamelasmusic.co.uk/images/Forsale/string/mandolins/L079fs.JPG >>> http://www.pamelasmusic.co.uk/mandolins.htm >>> >>> >>> >> Be very careful about doing business here - I'm a very dissatisfied >> customer. >> >> >> >> > > You'd be lucky to be able to do business. They never reply to email > enquiries and the phone is unanswered. I tried a couple of years ago, > then again earlier this year. They appear to be a phantom music shop. > > David > > I think that's a bit unfair. I bought a guitar from (probably) the 1920s, quite cheaply from there. It's OK. On the early romantic guitar site there is a warning that some of Pamela's instruments, stated as playable, might need attention -but also that her instruments can be a lot cheaper than guitars from more elevated sources.
I know one player/collector who is perfectly happy to buy from Pamela and then pay for restoration and thereby get a genuine old instrument still cheaper than from a more upmarket seller. Pamela was at the last Lute Society meeting in London. She was video-ing Taro Takeuchi playing different kinds of early guitar and English guitar. I'd never met her but she is unmistakeable from the pics on her site. She seems like a genuine if rather eccentric person. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
