Since buying my Stahl Larson-built mandola, I've found myself playing it more than any of my mandolins. First, it's a really top-quality instrument,...
Samuel "S S" Stewart started building banjos in 1878, in Philadelphia. He died 20 years later, and his trademark went through a couple owners before...
My experience with tiples -- I've owned two, now down to just one Martin T-15 -- is that the combination of the short scale, and string courses with...
If it's one of those Vietnamese instruments, be careful: some of them have inlays that fall out, metal parts that fail, and under-dried wood that can...
Eastman mandolas used to come with a violin-style hard case; I owned an MDA615 for a few years, since traded in, and it had one of those rectangular,...
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