This is a great instrument with nice appointments - solid. They were built in the small Maruka workshop in Japan, where Japanese luthier and master carver Eiichi Sumi is well known for being apart of the small team of 4 builders. This 8 1/2 x 11 KENTUCKY MANDOLIN brochure consists of one piece of paper folded. Similar Items - Kentucky KM-180S Mandolin - 185 (Lexington) Kentucky KM-270 Mandolin/w K&K Pickup - like new FS/FT - 400 (Austin) Beautiful Sunburst Kentucky KM-270 oval hole mandolin, in magnificent shape, with professionally installed passive K&K pickup and heel-mounted strap button. Mahogany back and - Available at Thursday Vintage Guitar & Music. Kentucky was one of the first to produce high quality F5 copies in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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I'm itching to get an Irish tenor banjo for that very reason, but I'm saving up for a Martin guitar right now. 1980s Kentucky KM-180S Sunburst Mandolin, Serial 11496. You're so right about the nature of the intervals it makes finding and creating melodies so intuitive. I really need to make more time to spend with mine. Other features include a 21-fret rosewood fingerboard, an adjustable rosewood bridge, and a black pickguard. No biggie to me just a little mojo! Those sound like some fine upgrades you've made to yours. This Kentucky KM-200S features an A-style body with a solid spruce top, solid mahogany back and sides, and a mahogany neck.
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It had been returned with a treble f-hole crack which I repaired very easily. Yep, I think i got the very last one they ever had for $99. This makes moving around the fingerboard easy and logical. The pattern is simple and repeating, and the interval between one pair of strings and the next is a constant.
One thing I like about mandolin (which I learned first) is that scales are more intuitive than on the banjo. List price: 750.00 - Our cash price: 499.
I've played this side by side along mandos costing MANY times more and I honestly like it better. KM-180S A-style mandolin with solid spruce top, f-holes, laminated mahogany back and sides, rosewood fretboard with dot markers, traditional tailpiece and pickguard, sunburst finish. Over the years I've had the fingerboard radiused and refretted, made a set of Cocobolo tuning knobs, added a solid tailpiece (inexpensive one, of course), wood armrest, Tonegard, and double piezo pickup. I use it for gigging in a little Irish/Scottish band, where I also play pennywhistle. I've largely gone back to guitar playing, but I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the mandolin for inspiring me to try to get back into making music after a long, long time.Īha! Another Fullerton Gloucester owner! I got one for something like $169 just as they were selling out and I LOVE it. I'm not any good, but yeah I'm surprised at how adept I've become at moving back and forth between instruments. I have several inexpensive mandolins, my favorite being a an all solid wood Fullerton Gloucester F model that I snagged for next to nothing.
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