The mandolin is obviously much much older than the Italian post-war guitar company. The 'Eko' headstock has always been a mystery to me. Jim, linked to a couple pictures of mine, but I can send/post some more when I get home. It is lovely, particularly the white bordering. I have rubber-necked that mandolin a few times. (Let me know if you'd like my address and don't have it.) I suspect you may have posted some images here already, but I've been on a pretty long cafe hiatus and would have missed them.īravo, Eugene. I've written to Tom Favilla, but don't yet have reply.ĭo you mind sharing a few images of your own Favilla(s), Mick? If you don't like posting them publicly, you're always welcome to write directly. The pearl in the scratchplate is engraved 'M.V.B.,' and (assuming those to be initials) I'm itching to know who that might have been. The piece has some hallmark of being built, not for show, but for a player: in spite of being relatively ornate, their is no gaudy decor in the fingerboard, but the fingerboard has practical position markers along the edge. Fred said he'd be packing it up and shipping it to me by this morning. I bit on the 52-rib Favilla at Oster's shop. Thought about e-mailing you directly, but didn't have your e-mail handy and would have to dig for it. Knowing you as a Favilla nut, Mick, I was hoping you'd stumble across this chat. I have no idea how to recognize them beyond similarity to maker-labeled instruments. I suspect Favilla supplied a fair number of anonymous instruments to the house-brand market starting in the pre-depression boom, but that's only suspicion. It would be interesting to see one by Favilla. Yeah, chitarra battente is a wire strung guitar with origins in the baroque, but still used as a folk instrument.

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