A message from Stan Jay

Hello, I'm Stan Jay, President of Mandolin Brothers, Ltd. Have you ever asked yourself "what's it worth?" If you own or if you have been offered a vintage American guitar, a banjo or mandolin or electric bass and wish to know its current market value, just call and ask us for advice. Or better yet, drop us a line on email. In case you're wondering, the guitar I'm holding above is a new Santa Cruz Tony Rice in (optional) sunburst finish. On our home page the guitar I'm holding is a C F Martin "Mandolin Brothers 25th Annivesary 000-28 Herringbone Replica" of which Martin made 25 to commemorate our being in business for that many years.

Widely known as one of the largest dealers in the world of vintage and new American fretted instruments, we are frequently recommended by Gibson Guitar Corp., Nashville, TN, when they receive inquiries about vintage and used instruments. We have appraised the contents of the CF Martin museum for Martin five times, the estate of CF Martin III, and the personal collection of George Fullerton. We are recommended by many local music stores around the country and by other manufacturers, libraries, museums, magazines and newspaper columnists. In business since 1971, we service the needs of over 225,,000 players and collectors of American fretted instruments.

Visiting Mandolin Brothers' showroom is like no other retail store experience you have ever had. It's as comfortable as being home, if your home were stocked with may hundreds of exceedingly high quality, original condition fretted instruments. Your questions are answered accurately and completely -- our greatest goal is to educate our customers to the differences between brands, models, styles, woods and appointments, so that they can make up their own minds based on having the information required to do so.

When we handle the sale of an instrument for an owner we do not complacently wait for buyers to walk in. We market it by actively sending out color photographs and complete descriptions to those, from our client base, whom we know will be interested. We post your instrument on the internet, here at the beloved mandoweb spider farm.

We treat every customer like a friend of the company. People tell us that our performance is exceedingly reliable, the quality of the merchandise is received even better than anticipated. We've been called "old fashioned" in the way we provide personal service, including offering free verbal evaluation of vintage fretted instruments to callers worldwide.

Mandolin Brothers, Ltd. is widely known for its high level of professionalism. This, plus our outstanding reputation for reliability, are good reasons why you should consider placing your instrument with us for consignment sale, or shipping it for trade/purchase. In fact, we have been called a "toy store for guitar players" and it's easy to see why; the place is wall to wall acoustic, electric and archtop guitars, banjos and mandolins.

We've supplied instruments to such players as William Ackerman, Eric Andersen, Kenny Ascher (co-author "Rainbow Connection"), Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgewick, George Benson, Edie Brickell, Marshall Brickman, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Chapin, Marc Cohn, Judy Collins, Don DeVito (record producer) , Matt Donovan, Holly Dunn, Bob Dylan, Elliot Easton, Raoul Felder, Bela Fleck, Mary Flower, Fr. Stan Fortuna, Jay Geils, John Gorka, David Allen Grier, David Grisman, Hall & Oates, Colin Hay (Men at Work), George Harrison, Janis Ian, Chris Isaak, The Indigo Girls, Faye and Jonathan Kellerman, David Patrick Kelly, Diana Krall, Lenny Kravitz, Cyndi Lauper, John Levanthal, Lyle Lovett, Russell Malone, Eddie Martinez, Pat Matheny, John McLaughlan, Sarah McLachlan, Don McLean, El McMeen, John Cougar Mellencamp, Miami Sound Machine (Gloria Estafan), Steve Miller, Joni Mitchell, Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live), Robin Quivers, Vernon Reid, Richie Sambora, Paul Siebel, Paul Simon, Michelle Shocked, G.E. Smith, Peter Stampfel (Holy Model Rounders), Leni Stern, Stephen Stills, Billy Squier, Jill Sobule, Russ Titleman, Randy Travis, Tony Trischka, Suzanne Vega, Jimmy Vivino (Conan O'Brien show), Peter Watrous (NY Times music correspondent), Eric Weissberg, Steve Winwood, Vinnie Zumma (Joe Jackson Band), and many other recording and nonrecording customers.

If you would like more information on MANDOLIN BROTHERS' products and services, please write, phone, fax or email to mandolin@mandoweb.com.

Mandolin Brothers, Ltd., 629 Forest Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10310-2576
Phone 718-981-8585 or 718-981-3226. Fax 718-816-4416