Dear MMD'ers,  What Jeremey Brice wrote about the mandolin in Hooghuys
dance organs is entirely correct [000225 MMD].  I'd just like to add
that the museum in Utrecht does possess the mechanism for the mandolin,
but they haven't mounted it (yet).

Best greetings,

Bjorn Isebaert
Gent, Belgium -- Warning: I check my mailbox only once in two weeks !