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January 25, 2020January 4, 2025admin

I’m thankfully late to the Uke craze, but after hearing one of these played in a mandolin orchestra, and having…

November 26, 2019January 5, 2025admin

Relatively new to the home is this striking 1913 Gibson H2 Mandola. Some combination of fate and finish resulted in…

February 24, 2019January 10, 2025admin

This odd duck was bought on a lark, with the maybe hope that it could be restored to something. It…

February 24, 2019January 5, 2025admin

This little nugget came along with the Howe-Orme mandolinetto back in 2019 but was it pretty rough shape. But thanks…

January 22, 2019January 5, 2025admin

The Home has been after an F-4 ever since selling the 1924ish one to finance the Kalamazoo Mandobass. Meet ‘Galadriel’, a…

December 14, 2018January 5, 2025admin

This here’s a little ball of fun. Purchased from Gryphon Guitars who described it thus: “We’re not sure of the…

October 31, 2018January 5, 2025admin

Recently new to the home is a 20s Regal Octophone — or the Chameleon of the Mandolin family. The Wikipedia…

April 24, 2018February 11, 2025admin

This K4 came from a private collector who happened to stumble across this little corner of the internet and saw…

June 15, 2017January 5, 2025admin

Meet “Wanda”, a regular scarlet sorceress, and close kin to Melisandre. The Gibson Style O Artist guitar was, at the…

June 4, 2017September 23, 2023admin

Meet “Mando” Calrissian (or the Landobass). A sexy, smooth operator from the 30s that takes the brute force of…