Mandolin
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OBJ1337
Mandolin
MANDOLIN;
Dimitrios Kalapodis
;Ντόρα Ρόζη
629 cm x 200 cm x 152 cm (Number of strings: 8, string length: 331 mm, fingerboard width at the bridge: 27 mm, fingerboard width at the beginning of the body: 37 mm, sound hole diameter: 38-67 mm, saddle length: 124 mm, centre of saddle height: 7.5 mm, number of ribs: 19 +2, body dimensions: 313 x 200 x 142 mm, body circumference: 387 mm.)
Mandolin, probably manufactured in Italy, with a string length of 331 mm. It has 8 mechanical keys with plastic round heads and an equal number of metal strings divided into 4 pairs (2+2+2+2). The 4 thinner strings are plain, while the rest are wound. Its body consists of 19 ribs and 2 side ribs. The instrument has: a bone bridge, a fingerboard with 24 frets, 5 inlaid rectangular plastic finger placement guides, simple wooden bindings, mosaic made of shell on the perimeter of the top, an ellipsoidal sound hole with shell decoration on its perimeter, a black plastic pickguard with an inlaid vegetal design made of shell, a wooden saddle with a bone and metal string binder with 4 heads. There is a printed paper label inside the body, reading: “ΕΡΓΟΣΤΑΣΙΟΝ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΩΝ / ΕΙΔΩΝ / ΔΗΜ. ΚΑΛΑΠΟΔΗ / ΟΔΟΣ ΜΑΙΖΩΝΟΣ 123 – ΠΑΤΡΑΙ / ΠΩΛΟΥΝΤΑΙ / ΧΟΡΔΑΙ / ΤΑ ΟΡΓΑΝΑ ΠΩΛΟΥΝΤΑΙ ΜΕ ΕΓΓΥΗΣΙΝ”. There is also a design of a bird and musical instruments on the label. Dimitrios Kalapodis must have been the one who traded the mandolin, as the instrument bears no resemblance to his own characteristic manufacturing technique.