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The F-5 is a mandolin made by Gibson beginning in 1922. Some of them are referred to as Fern because the headstock is inlaid with a fern pattern. The F-5 became the most popular and most imitated American mandolin, [1] and the best-known F-5 was owned by Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass music, who in turn helped identify the F-5 as the ultimate bluegrass mandolin.
Orville Gibson started making instruments in 1894 and founded the company in 1902 as the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to make mandolin-family instruments. [1] Gibson invented archtop guitars by constructing the same type of carved, arched tops used on violins .
Mandolin awareness in the United States blossomed in the 1880s, as the instrument became part of a fad that continued into the mid-1920s. [14] [15] According to Clarence L. Partee a publisher in the BMG movement (banjo, mandolin and guitar), the first mandolin made in the United States was made in 1883 or 1884 by Joseph Bohmann, who was an established maker of violins in Chicago. [16]
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Gibson and Rickenbacker introduced solid-body eight-string mandolins in the 1950s, [1] while Fender followed the single-course idea with its four-string version. A related instrument, the Bahian guitar , was developed in Brazil beginning in the 1940s by musicians Adolfo Antônio do Nascimento (Dodô) and Osmar Álvares Macedo (Osmar).
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Ultimately, the two most successful instruments were those produced by Gibson and Vega. [3] [8] Gibson designed their mandobasses to play either upright or on their side (like a regular mandolin) by changing the position of the pins the instrument rests on. Gibson made Mandobasses from 1912 to approximately 1930. Most mandobasses that survive ...
Lloyd Allayre Loar (1886–1943) was an American musician, instrument designer and sound engineer. He is best known for his design work with the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in the early 20th century, [3] including the F-5 model mandolin and L-5 guitar.