Namm 2012

**Ted Eschliman** · Jan-20-2012, 7:50am

Breakfast with Stevie:

**Spruce** · Jan-20-2012, 8:02am

Originally Posted by Ted Eschliman

Hoping to work with Maple Leaf cases to design a mandolin case:

Did you see the F case that Bill Collings made and was lugging around?
Pretty interesting...

**Ted Eschliman** · Jan-21-2012, 7:46am

Interesting new development from Fender. New acoustic/bluegrass line of banjos, dobros, and mandolins, street price under $500 under the Gretsch brand.

Gretsch "New Yorker" mandolin:

**Ted Eschliman** · Jan-21-2012, 7:48am

Not sure if the world really needs another clip-on tuner, but here's the latest from Boss/Roland:

**Ted Eschliman** · Jan-21-2012, 7:49am

Fender "Robert Schmidt" electric mandolin:

**Ted Eschliman** · Jan-21-2012, 7:51am

Korg jumps into clip-on tuners in multiple colors:

**Ted Eschliman** · Jan-21-2012, 7:53am

Here's what you need to liven up your bluegrass set. Fire...

**mandopete** · Jan-21-2012, 10:13am

Originally Posted by Ted Eschliman

Here's what you need to liven up your bluegrass set. Fire...

I am so getting me some of this. Which way to the smoke generators?

Thanks for the pics Ted!

**Ed Goist** · Jan-21-2012, 12:41pm

Originally Posted by Ted Eschliman

Interesting new development from Fender. New acoustic/bluegrass line of banjos, dobros, and mandolins, street price under $500 under the Gretsch brand.
Link to image

Gretsch "New Yorker" mandolin:
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I like the look of that Gretsch New Yorker!...
I really like the peghead shape, the 12th fret body join, the vintage looking finger rest, and the vintage one-piece cloud tailpiece.
I'd love to hear one of these. I wonder if they offer an oval-hole version?
Thanks for the pics, Ted!

**Jared Heddinger** · Jan-21-2012, 4:48pm

Thanks for all the pictures! It’s like being there myself.
Did anyone happen to see any new low end twelve strings?

**Ben Milne** · Jan-22-2012, 1:25am

Thanks Ted, your annual NAMM reports are always appreciated.

**Steve-o** · Jan-22-2012, 9:48am

Originally Posted by Ben Milne

Thanks Ted, your annual NAMM reports are always appreciated.

Ditto. I especially liked the action figure pose Ted.

**Jim Hilburn** · Jan-22-2012, 9:57am

Ted, I saw what was either an Eastman octave or MC. I've tried to find something online as to whether they're making octaves or not and I've come up with zip. But what they might have for cases is what I'm getting at. If such a creature exists and didn't have "Eastman" in bright gold across the front I'd sure like to check one out.

**jmalmsteen** · Jan-22-2012, 10:13am

My best friend went this year but I couldn't leave because of work. NAMM is always fun. The last time I went I was playing mainly electric guitar so it was quite the experience trying out all of the guitars, amps and effects units.

How is summer NAMM? We can get to the summer show. I wonder if they have more bluegrass instruments since it is in TN as opposed to CA.

**uncle ken** · Jan-22-2012, 12:22pm

I brought my favorite pick with me and tried to play as many as a could. The noise this year was pretty bad, making it hard to hear anything. Of the mandolins I played my favorite was the KM-1500. The neck felt good and the tone was impressive especially for a 4k list price (around 2k online) instrument. The Bill Monroe tribute hanging next to it was not so impressive. They didn't bother to finish the ends of the frets properly so it felt like I was playing a saw blade. Why would you not fix that for a trade show? In the Martin booth they had the 60k list price D-45 1942 repro just hanging there for anyone to just pull down and play. The noise in that area was so bad though I couldn't give it a proper listen. What I could hear of it was impressive, like the price.