Mandolin & Mandolin Family

The KM-650 F style Mandolin is one of today’s best values in a handmade professional quality mandolins. This Artist F style mandolins is handcarved and graduated from the finest mountain spruce and northern maple. All features and fittings have been recently upgraded to assure that each mandolin produces a rich, powerful tone and is true to tradition in every way.

There is no more desirable A-style oval hole mandolin in the world than the Gibson Snakehead version made between 1923 and 1927. It incorporates design changes co-instituted by Lloyd A. Loar, Gibson’s Chief Acoustic Engineer without whom we might not, today, have the f-hole archtop instrument which led to the electric archtop which led to the solid body guitar which led to The Rolling Stones. Imagine that.   THIS WAS $4,118 but it is NOW ON SALE:  

Played in a variety of tunings, the pairs of strings are often tuned A-D-G-C, and octave below the mandola. The deep, rich voice of the Irish Bouzouki is perfect for accompaniment as well as lead and solo work. 

While the mandola is gaining in popularity every day, there is still a lack of quality instruments available to the musician who doesn't wish to spend the thousands of dollars for your typical "boutique" instrument from the private maker. 

Trinity College mandolins are designed for traditional Celtic music, though they are used in a wide variety of other styles, too. The traditionally styled body of the TM-325 Octave Mandolin is complimented by an elegant snakehead peghead with the new Celtic-inspired cross. Its rich, mellow tone and great projection will surprise you.

The Loar’s new hand carved A-model mandolin (LM-300-VS) was developed using classic tried-and-true design techniques. With hand-shaped x-bracing and stripped down appointments, the LM-300 gives players the sound they’ve come to expect from The Loar at an unprecedented price point.

Figured hand carved and graduated maple back and sides, ebony fingerboard with modern extension over body, distinctive Deco peghead inlay in white and abalone pearl, in vintage sunburst.

Solid handcarved and graduated spruce top, Figured handcarved and graduated maple back and sides, Ebony fingerboard with modern extension over body, Distinctive Deco peghead inlay in white and abalone pearl, Traditional high gloss nitrocellulose lacquer sunburst finish

D’Angelico mandolins are uncommon (John made just 47 of them) and, as you would presuppose, they are also incredibly great sounding.  If owning a John D’Angelico hand-made mandolin is included in your vision of “eternal happiness” this is a really nice one and it would, we vouchsafe you, make you genuinely happy. 

NOW ON SALE - WAS $7212 BUT NOW ON SALE FOR:   

Solid hand-carved and graduated spruce top, solid, hand-carved flamed maple back and sides, one piece maple neck with dovetail neck/body joint at the 12th fret Nitro-cellulose finish rosewood fingerboard with M.O.P. dot position markers, “Snakehead” rosewood peghead overlay with inlaid Kentucky script in pearl, Vintage-style rosewood bridge with small adjustment wheels, Traditional 2-screw truss rodcover plate, Bone nut, Highly polished nickel silver frets, Nickel-plated tailpiece with leather insert, High-quality, nickel-plated Gotoh tuners with engraved plate and gig bag.

In the Classic Era of American Mandolins there was a single example of a Lloyd Loar Master Model mandolin produced in the A-style. It had a symmetrical pear-shaped body without points or scroll and a perfectly shaped snake-head peghead

Features include: quilted maple back and sides, Engelmann spruce top, moose bone nut and saddle, 18 moose hoof print markers, custom inlays of 3 meese, and a leafless tree some of whose branches are covered with snow, surrounded by a dark, glowing sunburst finish.  Inside it harbors, for sheer versatility, a McIntyre Feather pickup. 

The master model KM-1500 from Kentucky uses the finest, most highly figured Michigan Maple combined with the whitest, most fine-grained Adirondack Spruce. These solid woods are meticulously handcarved and graduated — just as were the fabled originals of the early ’20s — to achieve the finest tone quality and volume possible in a new instrument. 

The Breedlove List Price is $2299.

There are few 20th Century art deco designs as beautiful as the design of the German Silver (which is a fancy way of saying nickel alloy) prewar National single cone mandolin that are as easy to play – and LOUD? Don’t ask! This 8-string powerhouse is remarkably powerful, with original hard shell case. There are few 20th century art deco designs as beautiful as the design of the German Silver (which is a fancy way of saying nickel alloy) prewar National single cone mandolin. This one plays nicely and sounds incredibly good.  THIS WAS $3087. IT IS NOW ON SALE:

Hand carved, nitrocellulose-finished mandolin is a tribute to classic design techniques. From the hand-carved, hand graduated AAA spruce top and AAA Flamed Maple back and sides to the abalone/mother-of-pearl headstock inlay, these mandolins were built to represent Golden Age craftsmanship updated for the modern era.   It is made with nitrocellulose lacquer for clean warm tone and powerful projection.  

Traditional Kentucky A-model mandolins offer players that big sweet tone and easy playability, all priced within the reach of any budget-conscious musician. Saga has now raised the bar even further by upgrading the features of the KM-140 to include a solid top - making this already runaway best-seller even better!

What is as beautiful as a D’Angelico mandolin? The last numbered mandolin D'Angelico entered in his log book was #174 which was dated 1954, and then he entered #185 dated 4/19/52 which doesn't say "mandolin" but it does say "Pts." Which might mean a "mandolin with 2 points." In the annals of great mandolins of our ancestral past, the John D’Angelico hand-made stands apart in the hierarchy of historiography. It also sounds marvelous.THIS WAS $9500 BUT NOW ON SALE: