Red Diamond Vintage A-5 (USED, 2010)

Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)
Red Diamond Vintage  A-5 (USED, 2010)

Red Diamond Vintage A-5 (USED, 2010)

Regular price $7,300.00
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Description

What magic is this? What if Lloyd Loar had stuck around a little longer at Gibson?  What if demand for the A-5 model had actually ticked up in the 1920s? What would a near-century-old, top-shelf, refined A-style mandolin sound and feel like today? Mr. MacRostie's Red Diamond Vintage A-5 has us daydreaming about what might have been. The mandolin looks less like a 2010 model and more like a well preserved instrument from the 1920s. The super-light build makes for a weightless playing experience, the smallest effort driving the top with ease. Toneful, with that enviable, vocal midrange than often eludes many a modern mandolin. This Vintage A-5 is simply a joy to play and to hear in the room.

Priced with Heirloom hard-shell case.

Specs
  • Red spruce top
  • Hard, curly maple back and sides
  • Hand-rubbed, varnish finish
  • Hot hide-glue construction
  • Radiused, ebony fretboard w/scooped extension
  • Two-piece, ebony bridge
  • Ivoroid binding
  • Pearl & abalone inlay w/flowerpot headstock
  • 1-3/32", compensated, bone nut
  • Waverly tuners w/ebony buttons
  • Engraved, hinged tailpiece
  • Bound, tortoise pickguard
  • Heirloom hard-shell case
  • Serial #209

 


 


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