THE AMERICAN MANDOLIN STORY PRESENTED BY THE LAS VEGAS MANDOLIERS.

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THE AMERICAN MANDOLIN STORY PRESENTED BY THE LAS VEGAS MANDOLIERS

THE LAS VEGAS MANDOLIERS The Las Vegas Mandoliers began forming in 2004 with core members Dave Carroll and Lisa Fiorenza. The mission of the group has been to preserve a piece of American history by developing a mandolin orchestra for the state of Nevada. At present we are the size of a chamber orchestra with our core number at six instrumentalists: One acoustic bass player-Rick Crease, two guitars-Curt Jensen and Jim Damele; mandocello or octave mandolin- Dave Carroll and two mandolins- Jeanne Rozzi and Lisa Fiorenza. Past honorary members over the years who have built on our current sound are: Carolyn Forrester, bass; Tom Flagg, mandolin; Rick Lucchesi, Mandolin; Patti Lucchesi, guitar; Sasha Semenoff, mandolin; Art Gomez, guitar and mandolin; Leland Lugo, Bass; Glenn Nelson, mandolin, Shelby Nelson, bass.

Mandolin History in Early America 1900’s Mandolin popularity started in about 1880 when a Spanish troupe of students performing on bandurrias(similar to mandolins) played throughout New York. Italian immigrants copied the style and formed groups in New York and elsewhere on Neapolitan mandolins.

Pictured are traditional Italian bowl back or Neapolitan mandolins circa 1890.

The mandolin, in the 1890s, was most popular in those "fashion-conscious eastern cites of Boston, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, and also New York". It was also popular in other cities such as Kansas City. It was so Popular that, to give off a false impression that they were Society ladies, shop-girls would carry around mandolin cases.

Christmas Cards in the early 1900’s often featured a loved one holding a mandolin.

In the 1890’s, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Orville Gibson designed a mandolin which was a radical departure from the mandolins which had been produced in Italy for hundreds of years. The Italian mandolins had a deep, bowl-shaped back similar to a lute. Orville’s mandolin featured a very slightly arched top and back and a longer fretboard than that of the Italian models. Orville used two body shapes for his unique mandolins: the simple pear-shaped A model, and the Florentine style with fancy points and a scroll.

Small Mandolin groups were also popular in the 1920’s. Two players on the left are holding Florentine style or “F” style Gibson Mandolins, at center back row is a mandocello.

In about 1910, the Gibson Company came up with a very innovative marketing plan. Gibson introduced an entire mandolin family, each member being a different size with a different range of notes. These instruments corresponded to the various instruments of the violin family. Gibson’s mandolin family consisted of the mandolin, the mandola, the mandocello, and the mandobass. To promote these instruments Gibson introduced the concept of the mandolin orchestra. The mandolin orchestra could play the full range of orchestral music—all on these members of the mandolin family.

Rare photo circa 1915 with a mandobass on the left, mandocello on the far right.

Schenley String Orchestra circa Gibson mandolin player on the left seated row next to a traditional Italian Bowlback Mandolin player. Mandocellos are on the far right. Center is a harp-guitar.

The Gibson Company implemented a program whereby music teachers, on a commission basis, would sell a host of Gibson instruments by organizing a local mandolin orchestra—much like “Professor” Harold Hill in The Music Man. Mandolin orchestras sprang up all over America, and most of them played Gibsons. These orchestras were quite a fad in American culture for about a decade, boosting Gibson's bottom line considerably.

Early America Mandolin Orchestra circa All Gibson instruments

All girl mandolin orchestra circa 1912

Mandolin clubs popped up all over America in the 1920’s

In the 1930’s,the mandolin orchestra disappeared for unknown reasons. Some speculation has been the disfavor Americans had towards political activities happening abroad in Italy. Also other instruments were coming to the forefront such as the Big Band Swing instruments. The mandolin reemerged as a solo instrument in bluegrass bands with Bill Monroe’s influence and virtuosity in the 1950’s. In Las Vegas History, virtuoso Russian mandolinist, Dave Apollon, lead a troupe of mandolins strolling style in the Desert Inn Casino in the 1960’s-70’s.

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