c. 1891 Howe-Orme Cello Mandola
Some years ago, after purchasing the sadly damaged beyond repair Howe-Orme Mandolin, I came across the Howe-Orme exhibit from the…
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1924 Gibson TL-4 Tenor Lute
Yep. The one. The Lloyd Loar failure. Not sure what he was thinking slapping a tenor banjo neck on what…
c. 1890s Howe-Orme Mandolin/Mandolinetto
Another e(vil)bay purchase — this time in the hope that maybe from the ashes of two Howe-Ormes, one could rise.…
c1940-1941 Kalamazoo KM21 Mandolin
We snagged this nugget off e(vil)bay in the vain hope that it was in fact a mandola, as the measurements…
c Early 1920s Vega Style 205 Cylinder Back Mandolin
The unlikely, but welcome, arrival of the Vega Mandobass prompted an immediate scouring of the internet to find the last…
c. Teens Vega Cylinder-Back Mandobass
The Quadrifecta is complete. We welcome to the home a Vega Cylinder-Back mandobass; one of the two Cylinder-Backs that we…
1904 Gibson Octave Mandolin
Or perhaps more appropriately, a mandola in G, since it was made during the mandolin orchestra craze. I was not…
Guild GAD F-212 12 String Guitar
Back when there was a glimmer of hope that the little band that could might reform slightly more regularly, we…
c. 1914 Style 402Vega Cylinder-back Mandocello
In the research into the relative scarcity of Vega Mandocellos, we came across this one (sold originally in 2019 in…
c. 1920s Lyon & Healy “Own Make” Mandola
“Hey Maw, I done it!” I can trace this specifically back to Paul Ruppa’s Mandobass research where he lists out…