Re: Top Modern Mandolin Maker
If I won the lottery, I'd have Dave Cohen build me a mandolin. Simple as that! Sure, there are other builders out there and he may not be the most famous, I just really like his approach to building and innovation. Every one of his mandolins that I've played are great! It's just that he's only built 40 or 50 mandolins, so the numbers are not out there to get quite the same buzz. Also, he's not catering to the bluegrass market. That said, I'd be quite happy noodling over fiddle tunes on a Cohen A-model. And, if the lottery money was great enough, I'd get one in f- and oval-hole configuration!
I like the other guys to, but gotta to support the local boy, eh?
f-d
p.s., got to ask the OP what is meant by "modern mandolin maker?" Is this a maker of "modern" mandolins or a "modern maker" of mandolins? I'd say anybody striving to replicate the tubby sound of an old Gibson A4 or the precussion of a Loar wouldn't be "modern."
Last edited by fatt-dad; Oct-23-2009 at 3:23pm.
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