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'Best Guitar Shop in New York' - New York Magazine
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Last Updated:April 7, 2009
MANDOLIN BROTHERS® LTD., widely known as one of the largest dealers in the world of vintage, new and used American fretted instruments, welcomes you to our MANDOWEB internet site.
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SALE RUNS FROM : Friday April 17th, 2009 to 6 PM on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 (the last working day of spring). |
Stan is selling his 1955 Caddy Model 62 Convertible, in turquoise blue. If you’d like to see photos and read a brief description, click on this link |
How to Buy a Mandolin – at Mandolin Brothers Two short films by Bob Moses Not long ago, when you took your guitar down to the local jam or open mic, you joined the other 25 guitarists somewhere at the edge of the crowd and hoped you could pick out your playing over the six-string din. I’ll bet you’ve noticed recently that the first half-dozen folks in the door are toting little cases that hold shiny new mandolins. Mandolins are turning up on national stages as well as your local watering hole. Especially outside trad bluegrass and country settings, younger players such as Chris Thile are expanding the mandolin’s visibility and repertoire. Hell, The Clark Brothers, featuring camera-friendly Adam Clark on mandolin, even won the Fox tv reality show, The Next Great American Band, beating out the pop-rockers. Mandolins are turning up everywhere from rock arenas to honkytonks because their characteristic sharp attack packs a rhythmic punch, yet they can be hauntingly melodic. They find expression in many styles of music, and you can spend a lifetime mastering them — once you find the right instrument for you. Doing our part to convert the rest of the world’s guitarists into mando players, we brought Brad Einhorn, a local fixture on the Brooklyn bluegrass scene, to Mandolin Brothers in Staten Island, a world-famous repository of mandolins — and a repository of wisdom in the form of owner Stan Jay. Stan has counseled players from the world famous to the just-starting on mandolin purchases, and, as you’ll see in our video interview, no one has more enthusiasm for the instrument. Brad has also recently launched Kings County Strings, an online emporium featuring custom-made guitars and mandolin-family instruments from noted luthiers. TO SEE THIS FILM JUST CLICK ON http://www.smokemusic.tv/content/how-buy-mandolin# |
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If you haven't been to our expanded showroom yet, what are you waiting for? We've added a spacious new "High End" room containing the rarest and most sought-after vintage Gibson and Martin flattops, D'Angelico, D'Aquisto, Gibson and Epiphone archtops, as well as National tricone roundnecks, and dozens of fine new and used custom and hand-made instruments by Benedetto, Buscarino, Campellone, Collings, Gibson, Goodall, Grit Laskin, Martin, high-end hand-made classicals, pre-1900 parlor guitars, '50's & '60's Fender Stratocasters and Telecasters, and Gibson solid body electrics. We've added an Electric Guitar display room which contains solidbody, hollow body and thinline electric instruments, an Open-Back banjo and Resophonic Guitar" room, a Bluegrass Banjo room, an "Electric Listening" room, and an exciting "Acoustic Amplification" test drive room! Now, more than ever, visiting the Mandolin Brothers® showroom is like no retail store experience you have ever had. It's as comfortable as being home ( that is, if your house were stocked with nearly a thousand exceedingly high quality, original fretted instruments) where the only rule is: you can play any instrument you like, as long as you like. Read a recent article about us in The Staten Island Advance. Click here for "A Visit to Our Showroom."
While you're visiting our website check out our sections on Appraisal Services and the Mandolin Brothers®' Workshop. Those of the southpaw persuasion will want to check out our LEFTY SECTION. And, whatever you do, don't miss our Links section: The Mandoweb Guide to the Acoustic Universe!
For a free Mandolin Brothers® catalog, simply send us an email with your name and address. We'll be delighted to mail you a complimentary copy of our 76-page print catalog, featuring lotsa good stuff.
We hope you have a good time at the MANDOWEB. We'd rather see you in person, of course, so next time you are in the New York City Metro Area, take a bridge or ferry over to visit MANDOLIN BROTHERS.
Acoustic Guitars** Archtop Guitars** Classical and Classic Electric Guitars
Dobro, National, and Weisenborn Guitars ** Electric Guitars** Tenor Guitars
Thinline and Semi-Hollow Guitars ** Twelve String Guitars** Electric and Acoustic Bass
Lap,Table, and Pedal Steels** Five-String Resonator Banjos ** Open Back Five-String Banjos
Tenor and Plectrum Banjos ** Ukuleles and Banjo Ukes ** Mandolins and Mandolin Family
Amplifiers and Cases** LEFTIES
