This Day In Mandolin History
We've located over 880 mandolin related events, at least one for each day of the year, and these are contained in a database that's searchable by date by using the pull-down menu provided below.
Sounded pretty simple when we dreamed up the idea. In reality, it took a ton of time, but in the process we found some fascinating information. It will be a project always being updated.
A lot of people made this project possible. A list of those individuals and resources used to create this is provided at the bottom of this page.
Select a date using the pull-down below to search events of a day other than today:
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Today on this day in mandolin history, May 12 ...
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Special thanks to the help provided by these individuals and various web resources used in the creation of this:
- The Internet Movie Database
- Craig Miller at Acoustic Disc
- Don Stiernberg
- Country Music Television
- National Public Radio
- Google Patent, News and Web search
- Yahoo Web search
- Stan Jay of Mandolin Brothers
- Dan Beimborn and the Mandolin Archive
- Roger H. Siminoff
- Butch Baldassari and SoundArt Recordings
- Mandolin Cafe News and Message Board
- Country Music Hall of Fame
- The Bill Monroe Reader
- Ted Eschliman and JazzMando.com
- International Bluegrass Music Museum
- Wayne Rice
- Grand Ole Opry
- Gibson Original Acoustic Instruments
- Can't You Hear Me Callin'
- amazon.com
- iTunes
- Walnut Valley Festival
- New York Times
- Chicago Tribune
- SamBush.com
- Lawrence Journal World
- Sugar Hill Records
- Rounder Records
- Library of Congress
- eBay.com
- Time Magazine
- Look Magazine back issues
- Cool Mandolin Company
- Niles Hokkanen
- IBMA
- TV.com
- Barry Trott












