Yessir, I'm good.
Frankentater
On Feb 26, 5:46 am, Mike O <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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, 9:18 pm, Don Grieser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Nice job, Perry.
>
> > Here's a slow version of "The Chilly Winds of Shannon," this week's
> > CoMando Monroe tune of the week.
>
> >http://www.dongrieser.net/movies.html
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