Steve VandeWater
Dec-02-2014, 10:26am
There is a little music shop in Noblesville, Indiana called Center Stage Vintage Guitars. The owner, Kevin Heffernan, builds and repairs many types of stringed instruments. I stopped in the other day to see what he had on the wall.
I'm attaching a few pics I took there. Two of the photos show a hybrid mandolin/fiddle that he jokingly named a "Mandovarious". It is a mandolin neck attached to a fiddle body. I picked it a bit and it is a fun little thing to play.
Another pic shows a local girl playing one of Kevin's hybrid six string guitar/mandolins. This is a guitar neck on a mandolin body. Sounds like a mando but is easily played by a guitar player like Kevin. He has built and sold several of them.
The other couple of photos are not really mandolin related but are cool anyway. They are of a dieselpunk style guitar he built recently.
It's a very cool place to visit if you happen to be in Central Indiana.
On a downer note, last week someone stole a 1927 Gibson A out of his shop, so he has decided to stop hosting his monthly jam session. There is a posting describing that missing mando on the Indianapolis Craigslist. Please keep your eyes out if you are in this area or happen to see one pop up for sale on line.
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I'm attaching a few pics I took there. Two of the photos show a hybrid mandolin/fiddle that he jokingly named a "Mandovarious". It is a mandolin neck attached to a fiddle body. I picked it a bit and it is a fun little thing to play.
Another pic shows a local girl playing one of Kevin's hybrid six string guitar/mandolins. This is a guitar neck on a mandolin body. Sounds like a mando but is easily played by a guitar player like Kevin. He has built and sold several of them.
The other couple of photos are not really mandolin related but are cool anyway. They are of a dieselpunk style guitar he built recently.
It's a very cool place to visit if you happen to be in Central Indiana.
On a downer note, last week someone stole a 1927 Gibson A out of his shop, so he has decided to stop hosting his monthly jam session. There is a posting describing that missing mando on the Indianapolis Craigslist. Please keep your eyes out if you are in this area or happen to see one pop up for sale on line.
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