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Mandolins designed and manufactured by Gibson Brands Pages in category "Gibson mandolins" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list ...
Regal made a line of mandolins for Perlberg & Halpin of New York to brand Blue Comet. In the early 1930s, Regal had licensed the use of Dobro resonators. When National moved from California to Chicago, Regal acquired the rights to manufacture Dobro instruments. That made Regal become another producer of "house brand" guitars before World War II.
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]
Samuel Adelstein described the Lombard mandolin in 1893 as wider and shorter than the Neapolitan mandolin, with a shallower back and a shorter and wider neck, with six single strings to the regular mandolin's set of 4. [38] The Lombard was tuned C–D–A–E–B–G. [38] The strings were fastened to the bridge like a guitar's. [38]
Collings Guitars is an Austin, Texas–based stringed instrument manufacturer. The company was founded in 1973 by Bill Collings (August 9, 1948 – July 14, 2017). In addition to acoustic guitars, Collings Guitars manufactures electric guitars, archtop guitars, mandolins and ukuleles.
The electric mandolin is an instrument tuned and played as the mandolin and amplified in similar fashion to an electric guitar. As with electric guitars, electric mandolins take many forms. Most common is a carved-top eight-string instrument fitted with an electric pickup in similar fashion to many archtop semi-acoustic guitars.
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Like the earlier gittern, the mandore's back and neck were in earlier forms carved out of a block of wood. [17] This "hollowed out construction" did still exist in the 16th century, according to James Tyler, but was becoming rare. [17] The method was being replaced by gluing curved staves together to form back, and adding a neck and peg box. [17]