But a close look shows that the previous repairman used small dowels to splice the two pieces together. That’s a difficult job on any kind of neck since there’s very little lateral gluing surface to give the repair strength. Here’s how the mandolin arrived in our shop.Īfter removing a peghead overlay, we found a break that occurs at nearly a 90 degree angle to the neck. While Lyon & Healy no longer makes guitars or mandolins, the company still exists here in Chicago, building some of the finest harps in the world. That company obviously still exists today and has revived the Lyon name for a side line of economy guitars. George Lyon’s middle name, Washburn, was used for its line of guitars, mandolins, banjos and other instruments. Throughout the company’s history it produced a wide variety of musical instruments including brass, percussion, pianos, organs, harps, and assorted stringed instruments. The Lyon & Healy company began in 1864 as a partnership between George W. What’s more, we’ll need to work around a few unexpected elements of the previous repair. Our challenge is to get the headstock solid enough to play again, while maintaining as much of the instrument’s original qualitity and character as possible. It was fixed and the repair held for a long time before recently coming apart.
It has a very delicate and ornate scroll headstock that unfortunately broke apart many years ago. This is a “Professional” or “A” Style instrument that was at the top of the company’s line of mandolins in the 1920’s.
In this post, you’ll see how we tackle a very difficult neck re-repair on a Chicago-made Lyon and Healy Style-A Mandolin.Ī new customer brought us a remarkable and beautiful Lyon & Healy mandolin that was made here in Chicago nearly a century ago.
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