4/13/2023 0 Comments Vega mandolin serial numbers![]() ![]() ![]() However Mandolas and Mandocellos are quite rare, and this example is the only of its kind that we’ve as yet discovered. The instrument features a long 18.25” scale, arched spruce top and mahogany back. It’s entirely original but for newer Schaller tuning machines and is well set-up. Neck and frets are in good shape, body is crack free and well arched. ![]() With a tone somewhere in between a carved and a flat-top instrument this Kay Kraft Mandola offers something pleasantly unique. Pennsylvania-based Weymann & Son were a smaller-scale manufacturer of fretted instruments operative between 1864 and WWI. We infrequently stumble upon their guitars, banjos, and mandolin family instruments of many varieties. The Mandolutes were popular in their day, and are the most oft-encountered Weymann-branded instruments today. Apart from the very plain Model 20, all Mandolutes feature steam-bent tops and backs, fiddle-edge sides, and ornate hand-engraved front-side tuning machines. ![]()
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