Mandolin-Family – Page 3 – Home for Wayward Musical Instruments

March 19, 2023February 15, 2026admin

In the race to revolutionize mandolin construction and sound back during the ‘craze’, Boston-based Vega came up with the ‘Cylinder…

March 13, 2022December 13, 2025admin

This instrument is not supposed to exist. In all my research about Mandobasses the only mention of a mandobass crafted…

October 7, 2020May 30, 2026admin

The littleuns are just some of the most beautiful instruments I have ever seen. From the ornate pickguard throwback to the…

June 24, 2020September 23, 2023admin

Ever since the first strum of a 1924 F4 with a Virzi I have been after that sound. It took…

January 25, 2020January 5, 2025admin

This poor girl came to the home severely distressed. Someone had the temerity to drop it on its end, or…

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…

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…

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, 2018May 16, 2026admin

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

June 4, 2017April 18, 2025admin

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