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LanceK

Post subject: Help with a guitar ID>

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:03 am

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A person reached out to me this week and asked if I could help her id her grandfathers guitar.
Here are a few pics.
I have no idea what it is.

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Michael.N.

Post subject: Re: Help with a guitar ID>

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:20 am

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It's a Pandora/Bandora. Low tension metal strings in 'courses'. Sometimes have fanned frets (nothing new there). Nice sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaprVGez6ns

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LanceK

Post subject: Re: Help with a guitar ID>

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:21 am

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Michael.N. wrote:

It's a Pandora/Bandora. Low tension metal strings in 'courses'. Sometimes have fanned frets (nothing new there). Nice sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaprVGez6ns

Thanks Michael!

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Michael.N.

Post subject: Re: Help with a guitar ID>

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:25 am

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Technically it might be an Orpharion. I suppose they all come under the Cittern family of instruments.
Not cheap if it has been made by one of the known makers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmGbbWWaXwY

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whiskywill

Post subject: Re: Help with a guitar ID>

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 11:59 am

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This lists a lot of stringed instruments but I can't find any with 14 strings. http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/

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sdsollod

Post subject: Re: Help with a guitar ID>

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:14 pm

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I thought it might be a lute...

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Michael.N.

Post subject: Re: Help with a guitar ID>

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:55 pm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpharion

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Kevin Mason

Post subject: Re: Help with a guitar ID>

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 8:17 pm

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Michael is absolutely right. This is a copy of an Elizabethan instrument called a Bandora (or Pandora). It is similar to an Orpharion except it is larger and tuned like a guitar rather than a lute. Depending on where your friends father is from, it could have been made in England or here in the U.S. The instrument was used most commonly in what is called the English Consort--Pandora, Lute, Viola da Gamba, Cittern, Flute, and Violin. If you want to find out more, post your pictures on the Facebook page of the Lute Society of America. You might also try to contact Lyle Nordstrom who teaches early music in Maryland I believe. He used to be the Bandora player in a group called the Musicians of Swanne Alley with well known lute virtuoso Paul O'Dette.

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