Krishot mandolins

[Mark Miller]

Anybody know anything about these? I have a chance to buy an A model for $1850. Sounds great. It's up against a Pava A which of course costs more. Both sound better to me than the Colings MT. I've never even heard of Krishot before but that means nothing

[Stevo75]

Krishot is a great mandolin. There's a guy who plays one at a local jam I attend and it sounds great. I'm looking at one that's currently on consignment at the Pickin Parlor (Arvada, CO) for around $1900.

What year is it?

[darylcrisp]

i was wondering about these yesterday having seen two in the classifieds here. they look real nice.

http://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/93934#93934

thats a cool A

d

[Mark Miller]

It's 1997. It's at Fiddlers Green in Austin. I'm going back there tomorrow when their mandolin guy is there. He will be able to help me decide but I figured I'd draw on the collective knowledge here too. It feels a bit bulkier than the Pava. Don't know if that's good or bad. I love the tone of both but they are different. The Pava has more overtones and the Krishot is more hollow sounding. Maybe closer to the Gibson sound. But what do I know, it's not like I ever played a Lloyd Loar.

[allenhopkins]

It's 1997. It's at Fiddlers Green in Austin...

Bill Clinton is President; Backstreet Boys are on the radio, followed by Hanson singing MMMBop. Florida State loses the Sugar Bowl to Florida -- it's a time warp!

Oh, you meant it's A 1997. My bad.

[pointpergame]

AH: I had the same time flip reaction. Levity always good.

[UlsterMando]

Check out Michael Giverin of "The Jaywalkers" who plays an A style, to hear how good
these mandolins are. The "Big Sciota" video is fun, and in my view shows off the very best
of old timey/bluegrass music being made in the UK today.

[darylcrisp]

nice!

mando around 1:49

[Ivan Kelsall]

'Krishot' mandolins are excellent !.They're really well made & all the four that i've played (3 F's & an A), were beautiful sounding mandolins. If it 'sounds great' as you say,go for it,
Ivan

[Mark Miller]

I found a clip from Fiddler's Green on Youtube with the very mandolin I'm considering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPNMueBWBfk

[jimmy powells]

The maker is Eduard Kristofek and he used to have that name on them or perhaps just a K in italic. I don't know how Krishot name came about. Made in Czekoslovakia. I've played a couple of great F5s by Kristufek.

Jimmy
Uk

[Mark Miller]

I bought it! I am now the proud owner of my very own Czech bluegrass mandolin.

Thanks for your encouragement, guys!

[LadysSolo]

Congratulations! And the youtube video DID sound great! Nice buy, enjoy

[Shelagh Moore]

I had not heard Jaywalkers before, who are excellent, and the Krishot mandolin on the video sounds superb.

[ccravens]

Fine sounding mando - congrats!!

[darylcrisp]

Nice!

looked for it on the site but did not see it listed.
show us some good pics of the front, headstock and back when time permits.

d

[UlsterMando]

For even more K Mando and Jaywalkers joy check out their live version of "Millstone"
which was I believe was a mandolinist/violinist co-write.

[TEvans]

Mark Miller!

I was the other guy in there picking on that Passerine mandola for bout an hour straight! I wanted to tell you congratulations on that mandolin! Glad it made the flight home safely!

Enjoy that thing! It sounded most excellent! I had played it at Fiddler's a while back. Very solid instrument!

[FPhil]

Eduard is currently building an F5 for me. Great builder, also a very nice guy. Met him just before Christmas in Prague, he had an appointment in the city, but before he went there he brought me his personal mandolin to play on and got back a few hours later!

Here's a pic of his personal mandolin.

[Toni Schula]

Congratulations from me too. Sorry for joining in late, but you already took the right decission

I have a 2009 F style Krishot a Garnet F and I really love it. Actually it's the dark one in my avatar picture, waiting for the varnish to dry, when still unfinished in Eda's hands. The other one now lives in Florida.

[Mark Miller]

Thanks everybody. Had a blast today with it. Waaaay better for fiddle tunes than my old mandolin.

And howdy TEvans! How funny! I guess it's a small world among mandolin enthusiasts. You sounded great pickin' in the other room!

I'll post some pictures soon.

[pheffernan]

I was the other guy in there picking on that Passerine mandola for bout an hour straight!

Hey TEvans, could you tell us a bit more about this "Passerine mandola?"

[UlsterMando]

Congrats Mr. Miller !
Glad to hear you are enjoying your new axe !

[TEvans]

Whoops! Think that was my auto-correct kicking in. It was definitely a PasserniG mandola. Super awesome instrument. I have been trying to convince my wife to let me buy it all week.

You should buy it and just take that burden off of her shoulders.

[pheffernan]

Whoops! Think that was my auto-correct kicking in. It was definitely a PasserniG mandola. Super awesome instrument. I have been trying to convince my wife to let me buy it all week. You should buy it and just take that burden off of her shoulders.

Interesting. I hadn't heard of Stefan building a mandola, and can't seem to find the instrument on Fiddler's Green's website, only the #76 A5 that had sold when I called to discuss it with Ben. Can you tell us anything else about the build?