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Jim Yates - Posted - 01/12/2011: 21:52:04
I know this is not a collectors item, but I'm curious to know when my OM was built. I've had it for over 10 years and it is one of the OMs with a fleur de lis on the headstock and made in Japan on the tuners. Knowing the date that they changed from the Fleur de lis to the Celtic knot would help. I think the ones I've seen lately have a Celtic cross.
I can't seem to find a serisl number anywhere. It may have faded.
I added a pick-guard when the front started to show wear and changed the tail-piece when the hooks gave out.
Jerry Schoenborn - Posted - 01/13/2011: 05:15:40
Very cool looking instrument Jim. The frets appear to be much wider apart. (more like a guitar) Is it easier to play with fat fingers? Is it tuned like a viola C to A or just an octave lower to a violin?
Jerry Schoenborn - Posted - 01/13/2011: 05:21:31
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Originally posted by Jerry Schoenborn
Very cool looking instrument Jim. The frets appear to be much wider apart. (more like a guitar) Is it easier to play with fat fingers? Is it tuned like a viola C to A or just an octave lower than a violin? Is the body size much larger--louder?
By the way I may start dating my mandolin also. It has a more pleasing shape than most of the 60 year old women in my life!
Edited by - Jerry Schoenborn on 01/13/2011 06:07:14
Jim Yates - Posted - 01/13/2011: 07:23:40
I tune it GDAD. It gives me a nice drone in the keys of G or D and it makes for fewer long stretches.
I knew someone would make a joke out of the heading as soon as I posted it.
Jerry Schoenborn - Posted - 01/14/2011: 05:56:11
Well Jim, it was just ripe for the picking, I could'nt resist.
Jerry Schoenborn - Posted - 01/21/2011: 06:10:09
How much longer than a standard mando is this instrument, or about how much shorter than say a clasical guitar?
Edited by - Jerry Schoenborn on 01/21/2011 08:05:55
Gerry Cassidy - Posted - 01/21/2011: 12:45:16
Most mandolins are in the 14-14.5" scale range. The Trinity College OM's are 20" playing scale. Their Zouk's are 24", I do believe. Memory may have failed me on that...
I had a TC OM for a couple years, many moons ago, and it served me well.
24" is closer to the scale of a guitar, but don't use scale as judge. Guitars are tuned in 4th's and OM's & 'Zouks are tuned (usually) in 5th's.
It makes a BIG difference in making the stretch for chords and running melody lines.
Edited by - Gerry Cassidy on 01/21/2011 12:48:13
