Since I have some serious time on my hands to kill, I thought I'd make a post in my LJ since it's been.. oh AGES! This is in response to fairyfeline's tag on February 4. So here it is, 10 weird things about me
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2: I am a collector of mandolins. In fact, I have a few that are quite old. One dates to 1890.
I'm not "tagged", but me too. I favor the weird ones. I have a ca. 1890 Brescian type (four gut strings tuned as you'd expect). My oldest original dates to ca. 1835 and is strung following the Parisian methods of the late 1700s. I have a 2004-made reproduction of a 1736 original; the baroque type was more lute-like with a fixed bridge, gut strings, and tuned mostly or wholly in 4ths.
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I'm not "tagged", but me too. I favor the weird ones. I have a ca. 1890 Brescian type (four gut strings tuned as you'd expect). My oldest original dates to ca. 1835 and is strung following the Parisian methods of the late 1700s. I have a 2004-made reproduction of a 1736 original; the baroque type was more lute-like with a fixed bridge, gut strings, and tuned mostly or wholly in 4ths.
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