Second Wind Bluegrass Duet

Guitars: We play a couple of six-string Indiana Scouts (aka Indigo and Rogue)  and a Takemine 12-string (Carmelita--who is back after spending months in the shop to get her un-warped).

Mandolins: A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed)..... It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole or soundholes of varying shapes.

The Neapolitan style, known as a round-back or bowl-back (or "tater-bug", colloquial American) has a vaulted back made of a number of strips of wood in a bowl formation, similar to a lute, and usually a canted, two-plane, uncarved top. 
Gibson mandolins evolved into two basic styles: the Florentine or F-style, which has a decorative scroll near the neck, two points on the lower body, and usually a scroll carved into the headstock; and the A-style, which is pear shaped, has no points, and usually has a simpler headstock.

The mandolins played by Second Wind are Tater Bug and an A-body Martin Goya (aka Marty).

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandolin

Announcing: one of the latest addition:  Spooky, Wolf's new autoharp!

This autoharp got the name "Spooky" because of its rather eerie sound. Perhaps "ethereal" would best describe it.

In need of some restoration, look for Spooky and Herself to be performing duets soon.

As of August, 2009, we've added two more autoharps and a second fiddle!!! The fiddles are Feedle and Doc Bow Regard. Feedle came from China by way of Texas. Doc was handmade sometime before 1850.

I have to stop and count, but I think we're a two-person, 11-instrument band.

WAIT! WAIT! This just in. November 17, 2009--Wolf got a new old banjo--tenor, open-back. The word is that her name is Addie, for Miss Addington.

Gulp--Is there another new old instrument in the wings, waiting for a decision to be made? Yep. Will make that decision tomorrow (January 25, 2010), after playing it for the third time. (Three times a charm. Cross your fingers. Toss coins in the fountain.  I think I'm going Martin. --Raven, who wanted a Hummingbird)

Update--Mr. Martin came home with me February 1. It's a 1998 Martin D1.  I'm happy.

Tater Bug on the bottom left. Marty (A-body)  on the bottom right.

Spooky

Doc Bow Regard