mandolin

We posted about the Ricky Skaggs signature Master Model F5 mandolin when it was announced at IBMA '06, and again when it first appeared on Gibson's web site. The mandolin is being officially introduced this week at the Winter NAMM show,

We told you about this festival last year in it's forth term. Apparently it was again successful and the organizers are continuing it again this year. The festival is scheduled to be held at the Concord Community Music School in

Mel Bay has a new book of mandolin transcriptions from virtuoso player Mike Marshall. Entitled The Mike Marshall Collection, the book contains 11 of Mike's pieces, transcribed from his recordings. Each tune is shown in both tab and standard notation, including

New Millennium Acoustic Design, aka NewMAD, has recently introduced the world's first carbon fiber mandolin. The construction is almost entirely carbon fiber. The only wood on the instrument is the ebony fingerboard and bridge. The tuners and other hardware are

John McGann is one of acoustic string music's more prolific instrumentalists and educators. He is the 1985 national mandolin champion, and has performed and recorded with a who's who of bluegrass, newgrass, celtic and folk artists. He operates his own

We posted back in October about several new bluegrass instruments which Gibson debuted at the IBMA trade show. At that time, we mentioned the Ricky Skaggs signature mandolin, and indicated that no further information was available on the Gibson web

Our friends at Mandolin Cafe have a unique item in their online store sure to please mandolinists on your holiday gift list. It's a coffee mug with a mandolin chord chart printed around the cup surface - it's two gifts in

The Music Link has announced their latest instrument, a solid wood "F-style" mandolin, designed in collaboration with Greg Rich, who was also a crucial partner in resurrecting their Recording King banjo line. This new instrument (LM-500-VS) is the first mandolin from

Brad Laird at MandoUniversity.com has just published two new books for mandolinists. The first book is titled The Mandolin Handbook - An Owner's Manual. The book's purpose is to help the mandolin owner better understand how their instrument was built, how

This one probably should have been filed under celebrity gossip or something, but we don't have a category for that. Anyway, according to the PR Inside website, Brad Pitt is learning to play the mandolin. And not for a role