Mandolino
ALTERNATE NAME(S)
- Mandolin
Maker
Daniel Larson
Date1997
Place PublishedDuluth, Minnesota, United States, North America
SignedPrinted on paper label with single line border: [DL monogram] Daniel Larson / Duluth, MN / 1997DescriptionThe mandolin developed from the lute, which is readily apparent in this early-18th century Northern Italian mandolin model. The Neapolitan version with a deeper bowl and metal strings came to be more widely known than the earlier-style, gut-strung version like this one. Stringing: five double courses with single top string
Soundboard: one-piece quarter-cut spruce: narrow-to-medium grain; ebony heart inlaid at lower edge; top extends 5 mm onto neck
Bowl: 11maple staves, cut off-the-quarter, the prominent narrow curl ascending from treble to bass
Clasp: maple cut off-the-quarter with prominent narrow curl, angled to left
Head: cherry; terminates in shield veneered with bone
Neck: veneered with ebony
Binding: ebony half-binding
Fingerboard: ebony; eight tied-on gut frets, four ebony frets inlaid into soundboard
Nut: bone
Bridge: cherry tie bridge with short moustaches and ebony cap
Tuners: 12 walnut with concave heads and bone pins; top peg a dummy
Rose: geometric carved and pierced from wood of top
Finish: clear on back, none elsewhere
Endpin: decoratively turned walnutDimensionsTotal mandolino length: 593 mm
Length of body, to neck: 248 mm
Top length: 253 mm
Maximum body width: 180 mm
Maximum bowl height: 70 mm
Head length: 202 mm
Head width, top: 36 mm
Head width, bottom: 45 mm
Neck length (nut to ribs): 139 mm
Neck width, nut: 50 mm
Neck width, heel: 61 mm
Soundhole diameter: 30 mm
Vibrating string length (nut to bridge edge): 340 mmProvenancePurchased new by donor.
Credit LineGift of Donna J. Curry, 2021
Object number15612
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