Harp Mandolins, Ukes, etc.

Organology

"Harp" forms of Related Stringed Instruments
by Gregg Miner

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Anon theorboed mandolone Form 1c	anon, Italian, 1900-1910	Knutsen harp mandolin, c.1910 Form 3a	Knutsen harp mandolin, c.1914-1921 Form 3a	Drawing made by a Jenkins, Kansas City employee (Jenkins made or distributed Harwood harp guitars)

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A fascinating real harp mandolin by a later unknown maker appeared in the 1969 cult film Angel, Angel Down We Go (now called Cult of the Damned). It features a carved top with F-holes, elevated pickguard, bound top and back, custom wide tailpiece, hollow arm with elaborate bass headstock and 5 sub-bass strings.	Harmonie, 1919 Patent # 312,840


Rexjames harp mandolin, c.2000 Form 3a	Stephen Sedgwick harp mandolin, 2005 Form 3a	Harry Eibert harp mandolin, Form 3a	David Newton harp mandolin, Form 3a	Tropical Moon Music

H. Hammond, Sioux City, Iowa

This amazing instrument is technically a double-neck-, not a harp-, mandolin, as it has a strange floating fretboard for the 3 doubled bass courses! The owner, Lowell Levinger, agrees that they just cannot be fretted in practical use. A fascinating combination of a mandolinetto and a Knutsen hollow arm instrument, with Hammond's own invention thrown in!

Ukuleles


David White taropatch	Duane Heilman concert	Harry Eibert tenor	Michael Dunn tenor	Pete Howlett tenor	Ken Miller soprano


Harp guitar-banjo, France c.1930 6 string neck, 4 sub-bass	Knutsen, harp Hawaiian guitar, c.1920s 2 sub-bass, 4 super-treble	Knutsen, harp Hawaiian guitar, c.1920s 2 sub-bass	Sullivan, Atlanta, GA, 1933, Patent # 1,895,383	Viola beiroa, extra double-course of treble strings attached to bass side of body/neck junction


Smaw, 1899, Pat #D31,918	Turturro, 1904, Pat #767,023	Lyralin, 1906, Pat #812,049	Vaughn, 1917, Pat #D50,545	Bryan, 2002, Pat #US2002162442A1


Gaskins, 1895, Pat #552,116	Martin, stamped "Made by C.F. Martin & Co. for C.H. Gaskins & Co. Sept 2 '01."	Livermore, 1896, Pat #D26424	Porto, Sicily, c.1903	German?


Knutsen harp mandolin, c.1910	Knutsen harp mandola, c.1910-1920	Knutsen harp bandurria, c.1910-1920	McVey harp mandolin, 1918, Pat #D52,539	Unmarked. I believe this is a another version by McVey	Unknown Who in the world made this "harp mandolin" with f-holes?!


Dyer (Larson-made) harp mandolin, c.1910	Dyer (Larson-made) harp mando-cello, c.1906?	Unknown 5-course harp mandola (Larson-made, Knutsen design?), c.1900s	Jim Claridge, U.K.	Dave Gregory, U.K.


Regal, c.1920?	A patent-applied-for (Nov 20, 1908 Canadian Pook mandolin, with the arm on the "wrong" side! Additional images


Monzino, Milan, c.1900s	Luigi Galimberti (for Monzino & Sons) 1924	Calace, Naples, 1920	Longobardi, 1914 U.S. Pat #D45,566	Federico Gardelli, Napoli, Via Roma 52 Clearly there is a connection between Gardelli and the U.S. Longobardi patent.	Mozzani, Italy, c.1910	Fratelli Masetti (Masetti Brothers), Modena, c.1920s See also Masetti Harp Guitars


Knutsen harp ukulele, c.1914-1921	Knutsen harp taropatch, c.1914-1920s	Michael Dunn harp uke	Hoosier Maid, Geoff Davis	Black Bear Ukuleles, Duane Heilman

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Altpeter, 1927 Form 1a/b	Makoto Tsuruta Form 2a	Harry Eibert Form 3a	Steve Wise Form 3a	Koji Sugiura Form 3a & 4	Wailua


Calace, Italy, 1890s	Monzino	Unknown	P. Dabiero, Milan TradeMarked: Octochordis Dabiero Piccolo size	Unknown


Unknown	Musikalia, 1970s	Bob Alexander, Delmundo Guitars


Vincenzo Cipriani, Italy	Fred Carlson Guitarangi Sympathetic strings


Unknown	Gibson, 1890s	Unknown, appears Italian