Chisholm mandolin
When I commissioned my tenor guitar from Ian Chisholm, there was wood left over - English walnut and Sitka spruce.
I had my 65th birthday bash in a local pub one Sunday afternoon and evening - about 70 people, musicians and other friends and family - and in walked Ian carrying the mandolin with a nice bow tied round the fretboard!
The instrument label is signed by all the (then) members of the Unreel Ceilidh Band, with whom I'm still playing years later - so I must be doing something right!
It's a sweet sounding mandolin, with bags of projection and, as you can see from the picture, has been well played in. I use Elixir Nanoweb .010 strings on it.
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I had my 65th birthday bash in a local pub one Sunday afternoon and evening - about 70 people, musicians and other friends and family - and in walked Ian carrying the mandolin with a nice bow tied round the fretboard!
The instrument label is signed by all the (then) members of the Unreel Ceilidh Band, with whom I'm still playing years later - so I must be doing something right!
It's a sweet sounding mandolin, with bags of projection and, as you can see from the picture, has been well played in. I use Elixir Nanoweb .010 strings on it.
Click the picture to see it large scale in a separate browser window.