So the Potentater of this forum suggested I post something about my mandolin as it is a bit of an unusual beast and he thought some folks would be interested. I call it a Larry Loar or the Frankenloar... cuz it looks like Lloyd's lab experiment. It is actually a Lloyd Loar mandola that someone had the "brilliant" idea of converting into an F5 mandolin. As one luthier put it..."Boy, somebody went to a lot of work to ruin a perfectly good Loar mandola!"
As best as forensics can reconstruct the crime... they took a bandsaw and cut the sides down from the depth of a mandola (around 2") to the depth of an F5 (about 1.25"). Then they took the neck off and cut that down to the proper length with headstock intact and created a new fingerboard with the appropriate scale length, frets, etc. It was then reassembled, lifted up into a category 5 thunderstorm and... "it is ALIVE! my creature is ALIVE!" (ok... the thunderstorm is dramatic license on my part) In spite of its freakish lineage... it is a fantastic sounding and playing instrument. Does it sound like a loar? I dunno... cuz it's the only one I've played. Does it sound better than any other mando I've been around? Yep. You can hear it on my earlier you tube post in this topic string. Keep in mind, it's only as good as the player in this case... If you want to see it... it's posted as part of the mandolin archive here: http://www.mandolinarchive.com/perl/show_mando.pl?230 Satisfied, Potentater? Mike O' On Feb 25, 9:19 am, mistertaterbug <[email protected]> wrote: > Deep, > You still taking occasional lessons from Snehashish Mozumder? How's > that going? Thanks for posting the Youtube links. Great stuff. What > just out of curiosity, is the time signature? > Tater > > On Feb 24, 11:14 pm, diptanshu roy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > thanks guys! there is more on my youtube page if u like it. basuda plays a > > dotara. its a baul folk instrument. this is folk music from bengal and u may > > not find it anywhere in bangalore. but these guys do perform all over the > > world... so if u are lucky u might be able to catch them sometime. or if u > > want to organize a show u i can surely help u with their contacts etc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
