Luxurious Neapolitan mandolin built at the end of the 19th century by Stridente, whose original label is glued inside on the back, with the hot iron brand on the table, in excellent original and preserved condition.
The manufacturer Stridente is among the most abundant instrument producers of the end of the 19th / beginning of the 20th century, so much so that we regularly find mandolins from them up to the present day! The instrument presented here has the particularity of being remarkably well preserved after more than a century, and allows us to appreciate all the luxury characteristic of the Neapolitan production: tight-grained spruce top decorated with a rosette with mother-of-pearl motifs, bordered by a pistagne-style purfling made of mother-of-pearl pieces alternating with ebony and light wood; Vinaccia-style pickguard inlaid with mother-of-pearl; Brazilian rosewood body made up of 27 curved ribs alternating with nickel-silver strips; ebony veneered neck and headstock, ebony fingerboard with an extension to the 22nd fret under the treble strings, original hidden and engraved tuners. This mandolin has been fully set up and prepared for playing in our workshop, with low action and accurate intonation.
Sold in a period correct fitted case.
