Tommaso Capocefalo mandolin (Salsedo student) from 1909

Beautiful mandolin made by Tommaso Capocefalo, student of Luigi Salsedo and dated 1909.

An exact copy of a Luigi Salsedo model, this mandolin incorporates the latter's distinctive elements such as the lowered rosette and the elongated 20-fret fingerboard with a cutout before the rosette in particular.

Luigi Salsedo being one of the most respected luthiers in Naples, with his own identity, a fairly limited production, he is directly recognizable.

Here for sale is a beautiful mandolin by Tommaso Capocefalo certainly made in the workshops of Luigi Salsedo, in remarkable condition, completely intact and with a beautiful Neapolitan sound.

Technical characteristics :

• Top: Spruce
• Back: 15 rib rosewood
• Neck: Lacquered rosewood
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Width at nut: 29.5 mm
• Radius: Flat
• Frets: 20 frets
• Scale: 332 mm
• Profile: Neapolitan
• Pickguard: Mahogany
• Country of manufacture: Italy, Naples
• Year: 1909
• Finish: Natural
• Decorations: Key markers in white mother-of-pearl pellets / Netting on the edge of the table and rosette
• Details: Slight traces of use, normal given its age / Excellent state of conservation / Delivered in its period case (average condition)

Like all our instruments, this mandolin has been carefully tuned. 

So it has very good playing comfort.

With a pretty Neapolitan stamp, a balanced sound, beautiful harmonics, good projection and good sustain, this mandolin will please mandolinists as much as collectors.