WORKSHOP 2000

The same skills, attention to detail, and quality that we bring to the most expensive, rare, collectible instruments we also bring to your most humble, but best-loved, guitars, basses, and mandolins. When your instrument needs repair you will want to bring it to a qualified restoration facility that can apprise you of the options available and advise you of the best solution for its particular problem.

The collective experience of our staff spans years of intensive and specialized work for the performing professional and the talented hobbyist. Laid end to end, our workshop personnnel measure 23.17 feet in length and have a combined age of 122 years, which is roughly the equivalent of two very tall, ripened repairmen, working towards their retirement at a well-known guitar manufacturing plant.

Each of our repair people has a particular area of expertise, borne out of the love and playing of the kinds of music they like best.

Leroy Aiello, who has been on staff as repair person since 1988, has been promoted to the position of Head of the Repair Shop at Mandolin Brothers, Ltd. Mr. Aiello worked as guitar tech for Joe Jackson and Marshall Crenshaw, and toured the world with those bands. He apprenticed under Flip Van Domburg Scipio, now an independent guitar builder and restorer, and the former shop supervisor. When Leroy started, he mainly executed set-ups, archtops, electrics, acoustic guitars and mandolins. A musician himself, he has an understanding of all aspects of each fretted instrument, and what is required to make each piece sound its best and be comfortable to the player.