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I live in central NY and am looking for recommendations for someone who can setup my new mandolin. Thank you.
TD
All
I live in central NY and am looking for recommendations for someone who can setup my new mandolin. Thank you.
TD
Ithaca Guitar Works (Harry Aceto), Dewitt Mall in Ithaca
Ithaca Stringed Instruments (Eric Aceto) in T-burg
Finger Lakes Guitar Repair (Nate Clark) on W King Rd, Ithaca
Harris mandolins in Ithaca (also on W King Rd), he builds, not sure if he would set up
I have personally dealt with all of these, you could not go wrong with any of them.
Last edited by swampstomper; Sep-19-2008 at 6:27am.
I am not sure if he is still doing repairs but Troy Harris is in Ithaca. He sis a beautiful job on a friend's Gibson. There is also Ithaca Stringed Instruments. Harry Eibert is in Syracuse and I beieve he is an excellent luthier.
Jim
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Thank you for the recommendations. Sounds like a trip to Ithaca is in my future!
Yea I had my mandolin worked on at Ithaca Guitar Works. They did a superb job.
Troy Harris in Ithaca would do a superb job, as would Marty Macica in Schuylerville. Marty's one of the only people Wakefield lets touch his Loar. Either way, you can't go wrong w/ Marty or Troy. And not to knock Ithaca guitar works (because they do great work), but if I were having work done on my mandolin, I'd personally like to have a luthier of Troy or Marty's caliber doing it.
Heibert is great. Great.
I'll defend Ithaca Guitar Works, in that Harry Aceto has seen just about everything in his long repair career. Troy is indeed very good and very careful -- but isn't he concentrating on building fine mandolins now? I've used Eric Aceto for both major and minor repairs and setups, he is such an excellent musician as well as craftsman that he really understands playability (not that the others don't...); he also builds mandos (I own one).
There is an informal rule in Ithaca fusion music that at least one Aceto brother must be in the band...
In Rochester:
Lehmann Stringed Instruments
Stutzman's Guitar Center
Have had excellent work done at both shops.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
Ditto what Allen said re:Stutzman's and also Mobile Music in Canandaigua www.mobilemusic.downtowncanandaigua.com
Tim is a mandolin player himself and does a wonderful job on set up.
Last edited by guitharsis; Sep-21-2008 at 5:55am.
Would also recommend Lehman or Stutzman's in Rochester. But since you are in Binghamton, Ithaca sounds like your best bet.
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