This mandolin was made by the Gibson in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1922. It is an A-4 model, serial number 69625. This mandolin has a wooden body with 8 strings, inlaid design around sound hole and at top ...

It’s been a busy year for Sierra Hull who has spent much of it criss-crossing the country on tour. Now, with 2025 drawing to a close, she’s finally been able to catch her breath and look back at some ...

Bill Monroe holds up his 1923 Gibson F-5 mandolin on Feb. 25, 1986, for the first time since it was damaged by vandals in November 1985. Scores of Gibson employees gathered at the firm’s plant on ...

-- The man who made Kalamazoo famous for its stringed instruments remains an enigma. But it's certain that Orville H. Gibson wasn't just an eccentric perfectionist carving mandolins in his shop.

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will pluck tangos, rags, marches, polkas and some light European classical from the 1880s-1920s era of the mandolin orchestra craze. “Mandolin orchestras, like brass bands, were extremely popular a ...

Q: My cousin thoughtfully passed along this family mandolin owned and played by our grandfather from the time he was 10 years old. It measures 67 cm in length (26.5 inches). The label inside says; ...

It may sound like a scene right out of “Antiques Roadshow,” but there were no television cameras at the Denver Folklore Center last October when staffer Nick Amodeo picked up the phone. On the line ...

Q: This Gibson mandolin belonged to my mother, who received it as a young girl in the 1920s. She was quite good and played in the Mandolin Orchestra in Lethbridge, Alta., and also in Toronto at the ...