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Linda hi again, Good news-- very good news! I have just been researching International Collections of Mandolins, Mandola's etc and here it is:- In 1992 a Chinese guy Qian Ni came from China to study music and founded a Company called 'Eastman Strings'-- you will have to look them up. Eastman Strings is accepted as an extremely high quality company. According to this you have a DGM3 without the scroll head which is valued at $2900. This is not a Mandolin but it is a Mandola. The design came from Lyon & amp, apparently the scroll head is a classic that came from Healeys. So to look it up or similar go to-- Google, European Mandolin Collections, Second paragraph:- Mandolins - Eastman Guitars There you go I'm off to bed Lovely instrument !! |
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Nice one, how cool is that ?!! cheers Stephen |
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Stewart and McDonald good idea for other bits and pieces Rudy, but bad idea if you want to sell it to a collector for top Dollar. Really anal collectors would prefer the head as is, I know they are only plastic but you know
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I also don't think its a lyon and healy at all. They were carved tops as someone else mentioned above Headstock, pickguard, and tailpiece says regal to me |
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I also think it may be a wee bit more than twenty years old.
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The dgm3 was introduced in 2010
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Sorry, I was just referring to Eastman itself.
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I figured that, I was just making your point a little stronger. This doesn't look like a mandolin made 4 years ago, I think that's easy to see.
Those type of tuners aren't even made anymore, which brings me to my next point I don't think you'll have much luck finding replacement tuners for that mandolin. It would be much much easier to just replace the tuner button, which wouldn't be too hard at all for a competent guitar tech. They could also get the color to match the old ones with a little stain and no one would even know, He could also restore them and make them function better |
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Tough one - the fingerboard looks like it was stained to look like rosewood - the neck and headstock looks like they were stained ( not mahogany nor rosewood - maybe poplar or some other inexspensive wood )
not sure without a closer picture what the wood could be ( but its not Brazilian Rosewood )-back also seems like a stained wood -birch maybe maple - again not Brazilian rosewood . My Educated guess without putting my hands on it - has a binding like ive seen on Montgomery ward Guitars - back of tuners are enclosed -which hints Lyon and Healy . Lyon and healy also made alot of the montgomery ward guitars - so my guess is Lyon and Healy --Nut is not original . i just want to add this- their were literally hundreds of makers of instruments in the US in the late 1800's threw the early 1900's - mandolins were extremely popular at the time -kinda like guitars are now -companies copied each other to look like each other - could be any number of companies out their . Their is also a chance it could be made for some other catalog store at the time like Sears and Roebuck - Not a real exspensive instrument by any means -but im betting will have a nice sound once you replace the nut .
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Vintage mandolin
Has anyone figured out what brand this was
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