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Whats the best mandolin pick?
The Great Pick Off

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Introduction to Shaping Picks

What's happening to mandolin bridges?
Go to mandolinbridge.com to find out!

Tone Guard

The Tone-Gard
Here's my mandolin with the Tone-Gard. It just snaps on the back. It keeps the back of the mandolin off your belly, so the sound isn't muffled. You can really tell the difference. I wouldn't want to be without one on my mandolins.

Me and My Mandolins
F-5 Gibson fern 2003
F-5 Style Stan Miller Mandolin

F-5 Style Blonde Bomb
5-String Electric Mandolin
Kalamazoo Mandola



Mandolin lessons at the Fifth String in Berkeley

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Last Updated 2/21/09

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Mandolin Museum

Bill Monroe's Mandolins



Here's the hand-out for the Mandolin Workshop I gave at the Grass Valley Bluegrass Festival ~ June 14, 2002.



Great bluegrass pictures and posters
by Phil Zimmerman

Bluegrass Photographer




People with Mandolins

Matchstick Musical Instruments

What began as a challenge became a compulsion for Jack Hall, and in a mere 3 years between 1936 and 1939 he assembled an acoustic guitar, a tenor banjo, and two mandolins.

The most recent news from Tony Hall about the instruments is that Guinness World records have notified me that "I am now an official Guinness World Record holder for: The Largest Collection (10) of Playable Musical Instruments Made Entirely From Wooden Matchsticks."
For more about the Matchstick Man.

How about the
Fender Electric Mandolin FM-61SE

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