THE FLATIRON MANDOLIN F FESTIVAL PLUS
THE FLATIRON MANDOLIN F FESTIVAL SERIES

Comes with the original hardshell case in nice condition.Ĭlick the picture for a very large high resolution pic. Vivaldi - Concerto For Mandolin In C Major, RV425, (Allegro) (ST PETERSBURG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTOR. The mandolin plays like silk and has the sound you look for in good F5. The Flatiron Festival F-2 F-Style Mandolin All Solid Wood and fully Bound Inspired by Gibson Flatiron Festival F-2 Mandolin The Flatiron Festival F-2 Mandolin brings a century of instrument making experience to working musicians with a mandolin that not only looks distinguished but sounds great and gives amateurs and professionals quality tone. Good response all across the strings and up and down the neck. Excellent sounding mandolin, strong volume and nice woody chop. Nickle engraved tailpiece and cover, and nickle Schaller tuners with pearl buttons. It still has all the design features that give the F5 its legendary tone, including a hand-fitted dovetail neck joint, solid flamed maple neck, sides and back, solid spruce top, a 1 1/16 nut on the flat ebony fingerboard, ebont bridge, tone bar bracing, and a hand-tuned tone chamber. Other than cosmetic differnces its the same as the Gibson. The Flatiron has a different peghead inlay and tailpiece cover, a shortened fretboard extention to elimante pick click, slightly larger frets, and is finished in a lighter ice-tea sunburst. The Flatiron Festival F of this time is almost identical to the Gibson F5G. Flatiron is owned by Gibson and built in the same facility by the same luthiers. Flatiron Mandolins Bozeman, MT Luthier specializing in Mandolins, bought out.

THE FLATIRON MANDOLIN F FESTIVAL PLUS

90118019) Excellent plus condition, gloss sunburst finish with a brown back and sides. It should be significantly higher quality than any Epiphone mandolin.

THE FLATIRON MANDOLIN F FESTIVAL SERIES

Paypal fees and shipping fees are negotiable.1999 Flatiron Festival F Mandolin 1999 Flatiron Festival F Mandolin (Serial No. The Flatiron Festival series, if I remember correctly, was a series of satin finish all-solid wood mandolins, made in Montana. I have this listed on eBay for $2288 buy it now. This mandolin will be shipped in a TKL arched top case in excellent condition. The only modification is a tasteful genuine pearl truss rod cover. NO fret wear to speak of, no finish issues, dings, scratches, finish checks or cracks in the top, back, sides or neck. It has been played but handled very carefully. It is in extra nice condition, I would say near mint. Some of the best bang for the buck in the mandolin world. Responsive and lively throughout its range. There is not much at all to say regarding wear of the instrument. 1991 Flatiron Festival F5 Excellent mandolin for bluegrass (or anything). This mandolin is in almost mint ( considering it is already 9 years old) example of the mandolins of the Nashville/Derrington production era of Gibson. These Flatirons have the back and top graduations along with side thickness, neck shape, peghead specs, and dovetail neck to body joints along with many other specifications that make these true Master Models. Charlie Derrington and his staff took great pains to use the actual Loar specifications beginning in 1998 to build what are now considered Gibson's best mandolins ever since the 'master' himself was building in the 1920s. Flatiron mandolins were originally built on the same line by the same people who built Gibson mandolins. Gibson bought the Flatiron company in 1987. 96071609) Excellent condition, sunburst finish. Research of these mandolins indicate they are built to specifications developed by Lloyd Loar often called 'master' (thus Master Model) by employees at Gibson in the 1920s. 1999 Flatiron Festival F Mandolin (Serial No. This mandolin is a fine example of Gibson production in Nashville under the production management of Charlie Derrington. EpiphoneFlatiron Festival F-2 Mandolin.The F2 mandolin was first introduced in 1902 and was a major step in the instrument’s modern evolution from an old world bowl back instrument to a sleek modern American-made original. I am selling my 2001 Flatiron Festival F mandolin produced in the final days of domestic production for Flatiron Mandolins.

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