Pro Monte Players

**nick delmore** · Jan-28-2023, 11:18pm

Anyone know of a pro mandolinist who plays a Monteleone? I can't think of any.

**Chris Fannin** · Jan-28-2023, 11:43pm

Christopher Guest - Actor, Director, Musician

Paul Glasse and a few others.

https://monteleone.net/Artists-howard_emerson.php

**Mando Mafia** · Jan-29-2023, 6:46am

Ethan Setiawan has been playing one recently.

There’s also this previous thread about Monte players:

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/t...eone-Mandolins

Pete

**Jim Garber** · Jan-29-2023, 8:13am

Mike Marshall on his Monteleone mandocello. Mike Sassano is an excellent mandolinist in Out To Lunch and he plays what I consider to be one of the best mandolins on earth, a Baby Grand.

**Mandobar** · Jan-29-2023, 8:58am

Phil Rosenthal was a Monte player. Grisham plays them, owns quite a few or did.

**rnjl** · Jan-29-2023, 12:01pm

Originally Posted by nick delmore

Anyone know of a pro mandolinist who plays a Monteleone? I can't think of any.

Lou Martin, who used to play with Country Cooking and release a great album of mandolin music, had a Montelone. He also wrote and composed mando music and taught up in Albany area I think?

Not sure if he's still alive. I found two tracks on Youtube, there may be more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHn6q41DsCU

https://youtu.be/s50GJZSuaGo

I met him once but that was decades ago.

PS- should add that when you're Googling, apparently there was a piano player also named Lou Martin. The mandolin player used Lou Martin as a stage name, don't know what his real name was, he's discussed here on Cafe in previous years.

**musicofanatic** · Jan-29-2023, 12:06pm

It may be my "pro" status (from time-to-time, synonymous with "starving musician") that keeps me from acquiring a Monteleone, but I occasionally play a KM-DAWG at shows. I would never presume to equate it with the real deal, but likely it's as close as I'll get.

**Mandobar** · Jan-29-2023, 12:06pm

Grisman, not Grisham…

**nick delmore** · Jan-30-2023, 2:44am

Originally Posted by rnjl

Lou Martin, who used to play with Country Cooking and release a great album of mandolin music, had a Montelone. He also wrote and composed mando music and taught up in Albany area I think?

Not sure if he's still alive. I found two tracks on Youtube, there may be more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHn6q41DsCU

https://youtu.be/s50GJZSuaGo

I met him once but that was decades ago.

PS- should add that when you're Googling, apparently there was a piano player also named Lou Martin. The mandolin player used Lou Martin as a stage name, don't know what his real name was, he's discussed here on Cafe in previous years.

Lou Martin is one of my favourites. His Rounder album "Recent Work" was a huge influence on me.