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Let me get back to you on that in 19 years.

As always, it depends on your own finances and how much a dollar is worth to you. Those prices are over half my yearly salary, before taxes. No instrument is worth that kind of money to someone in my...

Unfortunately there’s an embargo and dealers are not at liberty to discuss, post etc. I will say this. They are still making mandolins; quite a few in fact BUT only a couple specific models. Again, I...

Who could be a better reincarnation of Homer and Jethro?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IUG0JqA7yc

We replaced the binders with forScore. It was a game changer. I also use iGigBook for the various Real Books.

Even that one doesn't have its original frets.

Gibson stopped taking new orders of mandolins in April of 2022. Our volume and amount of backorders allowed us to keep a decent supply of mandolins up through the beginning of 2023. Now that supply...

Okay, forgive the lengthy post, but I felt compelled to write something and sure do hope that all you friends will understand that I'm only doing this because I'm so amazed at the effect receiving my...

Oh yeah, one more bit. BA in Music from CCM. MBA from Xavier, don’t tell anybody. Just finished paying off my student loans last year - and I am 53 years old.

No formal luthier training. No...

If it was your business would you want someone doing that to you? If you want a cheap mandolin to travel with simply buy one.

Indispensable? This is where genre differences come in. This is absolutely not the way to find your way into a local Irish/Scottish pub session, where mandolin is typically a melody instrument, and...

Chris Thile when I saw him in Glasgow last November: "Bill Monroe said, 'No A-string ever went to heaven' ".
Even if that's a made-up quote, it's a true one!

For me, once I got hearing aids, my wife stopped screaming at me in Costco...

Yes, its a curse, I reckon. I cannot stand it, but it seems there are more than a few I encounter that it does not seem to bother. I used to have a coffee cup emblazoned with a skull&crossbones and...

I shop online. No great mando stores around here. I bought three of the four mandos I've had online.

The important thing is the return policy. Is there one? Will it give you enough time to try...

Nobody wants to look up at the stage and see some sweaty old dude in a dirty t-shirt, worn out '90s era cargo shorts, & flip flops.....nobody!

I always start the gig with a nice jacket & looking...

I don't know what the finish is, I don't know how it was applied, I don't know how thick the finish is, I don't know how the wood was seasoned before the mandolin was built, I don't know how the...

Sad news. Jim Seals has passed at the age of 79 or 80 (some confusion about his birth year). I enjoyed their music, though I can't say I was a big fan. It wasn't until just a few years ago that I...

Yes! This Cheshire Cat should make it easy to identify. See it?

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Sing!

No matter what instrument is being played, string or wind, I'm singing the melody in my head.

Googled it. Read all about it. Still don't know:(

According to Dennis Vance at The Mandolin Store, Gibson is currently making the best mandolins now and the quality is consistently high in quality build and tone. I can concur wholeheartedly in the...

Stew-mac was never the cheapest place around. Since the buy out, they are now perhaps the most expensive.
They sell stuff you can't get anywhere else. Most of what they sell is of high quality....

I have to agree with the post above. I've owned or played at least half a dozen Collings mandolin. Amazingly consistent in their sound. If you like the Collings sound you can, or at least could,...

He's playing into a 57 and singing into a 58. There is a reason people have been doing that for decades.