![]() Work included fixing that brace, installing a rosewood "helper block cleat" over the cracked-up area near the endblock, giving it a fret level/dress, and setting it up. Ouch! Fortunately that was the worst of it aside from a couple interior glue drips and a detached main brace. It looked ding-dang clean, too, until I saw the severe punched-in area under the tailpiece. I was truly surprised to see this pop out of it. This one came waltzing in with a local customer, who carried it in a beat-up old tenor banjo case. ![]() The high-grade L&H mandolins are rare enough (though the cheaper Washburn-branded, Regal-made ones are not too rare), but mandolas like this one are even harder to find. The back and sides are all heavily-flamed maple instead of birch, too, and the whole instrument exudes "high class violin." The fancy scrolled headstock with its top-mounted tuners is just icing on that cake. How does it sound? - like a good Gibson mandola that's even better. How is this carved and braced? - almost the same as a Gibson mandola from the same time - but thinner and lighter and with a little more nuance. The Lyon & Healy carved-top mandolin family strikes me as being composed of super-refined versions of the Gibson oval-hole A-style mold.
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