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Paul Duff has just launched his new Duff Mandolins website. The website address is: www.duffmandolins.com. Paul’s hand crafted instruments are sought after globally and are played by such noted artists as Mike Compton, Rebecca Lovell, Richard Brown and Skip Gorman. Paul also features one of his own mandolins in Bluegrass Parkway Australia’s premier bluegrass band. [...]
Gerry Hale from the Guitar Gallery advises that they now run regular monthly workshops. The Guitar Gallery is located at 30 Johnston St, Fitzroy, and specialises in acoustic instruments. The focus of the shop has broadened to include a great selection of banjos, mandolins, and Dobros as well as guitars. The Guitar Gallery is owned [...]
Gruhn Guitars has taken on distribution of Duff Mandolins. Western Australian luthier Paul Duff will now have his highly sought after instruments available through one of the worlds most notable instruments dealers in Nashville Tennessee – Gruhn Guitars. This makes Duff Mandolins available through three USA music outlets including Elderly Instruments and Mandolin Central. Paul [...]
Mandolin Cafe reports that Mike Marshall will be accepting a limited number of students next month, by offering lessons both in his Oakland, California studio and for those who wish to study with him via the Internet utilising Skype technology. Read the full article on Mandolin Cafe. Contact Mike Marshall via his web site
Mandolin players, if you have ever wondered what it would be like to play an vintage mandolin from the 1920′s then this is the story for you. Bill Graham has read or talked about the holy-grail mandolins since the 1970s. He has listened to them make music on recordings and marveled at the rich, clean [...]
Famed Australian luthier Steve Gilchrist, has started building a series of new Style 1 mandolins to be distributed through Nashville’s historical Gruhn Guitars – U.S. representative for Gilchrist mandolins. Steve is also building a limited number of his highly sought after F5 style mandolins. Orders for these are now being accepted through Gruhn Guitars, with [...]
The MF5 is Colins’ fully appointed oval hole F-style model. Colins’s website states that the larger oval sound hole and extra mass of the F-style body produce rich and vibrant tone that is well suited for jazz, swing, classical, Celtic and old-time styles. With a high gloss lacquer finish and elegant curves, this mandolin is [...]
Bill Graham is a regular columnist for the Mandolin Cafe. This month he delivers a composition on the past and future of two mandolins of vastly different vintage. A Clark F5 Mandolin as new as they come and a Harwood recently returned to where is was originally created. Graham writes The Clark F5 shines to [...]
Dave Wendler of Wendler Instruments, advises that a friend of the family brought in an ‘old mandolin’ for him to repair. The instrument apparently belonged to her grandfather and had been in the family for at least sixty years. Dave advises that her mother wanted to get the mandolin into playing shape so perhaps one [...]
Travis Tackett writes for the Bluegrass Journal about Danny Roberts’ 1922 F5 Loar Mandolin. Danny Roberts of The Grascals fame finally possesses what the mandolin world considers the Holy Grail, a Gibson F5 made by or under the supervision of Lloyd Loar. But the prized instrument didn’t simply fall into Roberts’ very capable picking hands. [...]
David Grisman & Eastman Strings Collaborate – The Dawg Collection. Grisman and Eastman Strings are collaborating on a new line of acoustic instruments called The Dawg Collection by Eastman. Based on rare examples from David’s personal collection, the line is inspired by classic instruments from the Golden Age of American luthiery, as well as new [...]
Gibson releases the Ricky Skaggs Limited Edition Distressed Master. The Gibson website reveals that this mandolin is the result of over 12 months close development with the Ricky Skaggs. This signature model mandolin is closely based on Ricky’s 1923 Lloyd Loar F-5 – an instrument revered for its tone and playability. Each mandolin in this [...]
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