Gibson_Mandolin_Family,_National_Music_Museum,_Vermillion,_South_Dakota.jpg


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[ front ]: 1914 F-4 mandolin, 1924 K-4 mando-cello, 1917 H-4 mandola, 1916 J mando-bass, 1904 A-4 mandolin, 1914 K-2 mando-cello; all by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Co., Kalamazoo.
[ right ]: unknown mandolin, 1908 Kite mandolin by F. Lang.
[ rear ]: 1917 Symphony Style 5 harp guitar by Cal & August Larson, 1930 Aero-uke ukulele by Stromberg-Voisinet.

The Harp Guitar has a second sound hole - don't know that it qualifies as a side port...1917
National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD ( home of a Stradivarius mandolin and guitar! )

— Larry Jacobsen

Precise listing:


Gibson Mandolin Family , National Music Museum , Vermillion, South Dakota

front: left to right

  • [in other photo ] NMM 10052 . Mandolin by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, ca. 1904. Style F-3. Serial number 3617.
  • NMM 6070 . Mandolin by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1914. Style F-4, Artist's Model. Serial number 17800.
  • NMM 6086 . Mando-cello by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1924. Style K-4, Artist's Model. Serial number 76996.
  • NMM 6098 . Mandola by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1917. Style H-4, Artist's Model. Serial number 33609.
  • NMM 2883 . Mando-bass by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1916. Style J. Serial number 25936.
  • NMM 6192 . Mandolin by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, ca. 1904. Style A-4. Serial number 3121. ( See also : NMM 4085 )
  • NMM 6085 . Mando-cello by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1914. Style K-2. Serial number 17984.
  • unknown mandolin

rear: left to right

  • NMM 2817 . Harp guitar by Carl and August Larson, Chicago, ca. 1917. Symphony Style 5. No serial number. Distributed by W. J. Dyer & Bro., Minneapolis.
  • NMM 2766 . Ukulele by Stromberg-Voisinet Co., Chicago, ca. 1930. Aero-uke. “ Built in the shape of an airplane.
  • NMM 2774. Kite Mandolin by F. Lang, Chicago, patented April 28, 1908.

upper: right

  • Photograph: The Cornell Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Club ay Cornel University, Ithaca, New York, 1895–96.

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