For Sierra Hull, an innocuous 2023 phone call with the creative geniuses at Gibson ultimately led to the culmination of a ...
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 ...
Loar’s fame mostly rests with his work as an acoustical engineer and instrument designer for Gibson. “Master Loar” — as he become known — developed a range of “Master Model” Gibson instruments, ...
We sat down for an exclusive interview with Sierra Hull to talk about her new signature model Gibson mandolins.
The “holy grail of acoustic instruments” was played at The Great Divide music store in Aspen yesterday – a mandolin that dates to 1923 and is worth $100,000. Great Divide owner Sandy Munro was the ...
For years, an old mandolin that was passed down as a family heirloom held a secret from two sisters. Jody Kennedy had used the aged, wooden instrument as a sentimental fireplace decoration in her ...
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 ...