This is a Paniolo, or Hawaiian Cowboy, Ukulele from the 1920s. The ukulele evolved from the Spanish guitar brought to the islands by California vaqueros in the 1830s. #HashtagTheCowboy Thanks, Tim

Every time i pick up my banjo (made by Jim Hartel) I feel a lick or tune wanting to escape into the world.  This is one of hundreds that come and go.  I play this banjo, a replica of a banjo style from 1858, because it feels deeply cultural and spiritual to me.

It's been years since I've changed anything on my mandolin except the strings. But, for Christmas, Connie gave me this beautiful handcrafted tailpiece created especially for my mandolin by my pal, master engraver, Weldon Lister of Boerne, Texas. Everything Weldon creates is an

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Saturday March 1st: 2-4 pm Hellertown hellertownhistoricalsociety.org/silent-chance-…

Only two Stradivari mandolins are known, one dated 1680, is in the National Music Museum at Vermillion, South Dakota, USA.  The other, c. 1700-10, The ‛Mandolino Coristo’, exhibited at the Cremona Museum, is privately owned in England and has its rare original case surviving.

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Reeling in a cheesesteak at The Crossroads in Hellertown. #hellertown #thecrossroads #lehighvalley

Leonardo Mandolin youtu.be/LJzoAhMQCco

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David Grisman and Don Stiernberg Discuss Jethro Burns is.gd/jikltx @ mandolincafe

Acoustic America: Iconic Guitars, Mandolins, and Banjos youtu.be/vYoemtLOW-k?si… via YouTube

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Painting by James Smetham (1821-1889) - The Mandolin (1866). (English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter and engraver.)

I bought my grail: a John Monteleone Style B mandolin.

The music they create is immortal! Long live classical music!!!🎶❤️

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Neil Levang - Ghost Riders In The Sky (1961)

This Neapolitan-style, bowlback mandolin has seventeen inlaid nickel-silver frets. met.org/1Q75jEd #MetMusic