1922 (Loar Period) Gibson (no model) Mando-viola #70321

Summary

1922 (Loar Period)
Mando-viola, Style (no model)
Serial Number 70321
Factory Order number: 11729
Virzi Serial Number 10093

Description

Ten string, A-model, mandola body, f-holes, headblock #11729, unique pickguard bracket (unlike 70281).

The Mando-viola's serial number appears in pencil, but there are no labels. Very well-established provenance of this being Lloyd Loar's personal instrument have always placed this as a "Loar" instrument

From Roger Siminoff: Scale length is 15 5/8". Tuning was ADGCF, but Loar was known to play it in various unusual tunings.

Categories

Categories this instrument is a member of

• Maple back
• Screwed-on pickguard
• Unusual instrument
• Virzi

Source

From Darryl Wolfe.
Darryl Wolfe's F5 Journal is the authoritative work on the subject of Loar-signed and later Gibson mandolins