Article: Fiddler's Green Music Shop Takes a New Location in Lockhart, Texas

[Mandolin Cafe]

You can view the page at https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/c...Lockhart-Texas

[addamr]

Congratulations and best of luck.

Adam

[PaulBFree]

Beautiful space! Congratulations and good wishes.

[Alfons]

Congrats! Looks like a good reason to visit Texas. Nice job on the space.

[TX2AK]

Congrats, glad to see you are back open and in the new space! I can’t wait to find a weekend to make a trip down. I haven’t been there since undgrad days at UT, when we periodically made the “pilgrimage” to Shiner and always made a point to hit Kreuz’s on the way back!!!

[GMorgan]

I used to go to the old shop when it was in Austin, but it moved just before the pandemic to Lockhart. Although I visited the relocated business once the pandemic began to fade, it was down a difficult flight of stairs and wasn't quite as accessible as I would have preferred. However, I bought my first mandolin from Ben and really like his operation. I called him yesterday to ask about the new digs right across the street from the other shop and it sounds really, really nice. My wife and I are already planning on a trip to Lockhart in the very near future. And, Ben assured me that a pizza joint that I discovered when I was there last time is still up and running as well. Time for the short road trip from our home! Fun news!

[Rich Benson]

Best of Luck! one of my favorite stores!!
Ben does a great job and is a strand-up guy!!
Rich

[Mandolin Cafe]

One of the downsides to all this moving was that they had a ton of nice mandolins they'd acquired for the new space but their photo setup wasn't yet available. But that's now in the process of changing and they're adding those now. Counted 26 mandolin family instruments on their wall in the photo above. I'd say based on this they've graduated from kind of the mom and pop retailer for mandolins into a serious placed for the hunt and Ben tells us they plan to grow that inventory. And with their proximity to Austin they get new instruments hot of the bench from Ellis and Pava. See here.

[manjitsu]

Lucky me. :-)

Chris

[CES]

I’ve bought a mandolin and a guitar from them, and have been very happy with both. The Rigel CT-110 mandolin was first and from the old Austin location. Because of the way they process credit cards (or did at the time), I had to call my cc company and reassure them that, yes, I was trying to buy a very nice mandolin in TX (I’m in NC). Dude on the other end of the call was cracking up at my implorations…

When I called back probably a year and a half later to buy my McPherson Touring from them, Ben actually remembered our previous interaction. His description of both instruments was spot on, and he was a pleasure to talk shop with. Best of luck to them, and I hope to make it out there to meet in person some day!

[soliver]

If only I lived close enough!... looks like a great space!

[Willow20]

I visited Bens shop in Austin a few times he was always ready to help.
Now I have 2 reasons to revisit Ben try out a few mandolins [since I'm always on the hunt] and get some of the best Barbeque Texas has to offer.