Dealers in Reno or Sac?

[AndyRG]

I wasn't sure, but this seems like as good a place as any to post a question on this topic. Is anyone familiar with shops carrying mid-high end mandos in Reno, or even Sacramento? I have struggled to turn up any shops that specialize in acoustic instruments. Thanks for the help!

[Perry Babasin]

I live in Roseville (suburb of Sac) and there is precious little to be found here, there is one shop The 5th String (www.thefifthstring.com) that is pretty good but they don't have a lot of mando selection, pretty good guitar selection however. They might be able to special order, but what they carry is pretty much the Eastman line. They do have strings, accessories and lessons etc.

There is a shop in Folsom, Nicholson Music (www.nicholsonmusic.com) that has a much larger selection of all acoustic instruments including a fairly impressive (for the area) selection of mandos including Webers and Breedloves. Guitar Center and Skips ***forget about it*** that is of course unless your looking for a Fender A-Style. I have no financial interest other than I would like to buy many of the fine instruments at Nicholson. Of course there are many more shops in and around the Bay Area (5th String Berkeley comes to mind). Not sure about Reno, good luck!!

Perry

[Rob Fowler]

If you have a couple extra hours to drive from Sac to Palo Alto you should check out Gryphon Strings. Here's the link to their mando selection. Gryphon probably has the best high-quality mando selection in all of Northern/Central California.

[AndyRG]

Thanks for the info guys. Not a word about reno huh?