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

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    Paul Glasse and a few others.

    https://monteleone.net/Artists-howard_emerson.php
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    Ethan Setiawan has been playing one recently.

    There’s also this previous thread about Monte players:

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

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by nick delmore View Post
    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.

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    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.
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    Grisman, not Grisham…
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    Quote Originally Posted by rnjl View Post
    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.

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    John Jorgenson to add to the list of great players above.

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    Chris Hillman plays one that sounds terrific on this cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOjcoCAFTho
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    There really just aren't that many Monteleone mandos out there...
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