1936 Kalamazoo KH-21 Mandola
My work is done. Well, for now. Out of the blue on Faceblech, a KH Mandola surfaced — this was…
My work is done. Well, for now. Out of the blue on Faceblech, a KH Mandola surfaced — this was…
A few years ago, I realized a person I met in a mandolin group online was knew someone I went…
Some years ago, after purchasing the sadly damaged beyond repair Howe-Orme Mandolin, I came across the Howe-Orme exhibit from the…
Another e(vil)bay purchase — this time in the hope that maybe from the ashes of two Howe-Ormes, one could rise.…
We snagged this nugget off e(vil)bay in the vain hope that it was in fact a mandola, as the measurements…
The unlikely, but welcome, arrival of the Vega Mandobass prompted an immediate scouring of the internet to find the last…
The Quadrifecta is complete. We welcome to the home a Vega Cylinder-Back mandobass; one of the two Cylinder-Backs that we…
Or perhaps more appropriately, a mandola in G, since it was made during the mandolin orchestra craze. I was not…
In the research into the relative scarcity of Vega Mandocellos, we came across this one (sold originally in 2019 in…
“Hey Maw, I done it!” I can trace this specifically back to Paul Ruppa’s Mandobass research where he lists out…