This G W Barry Concert Cutaway steel string dates to the year 2000 and was built in Toronto, using Sitka Spruce for the top, paired with Indian Rosewood for the back, sides, fingerboard and bridge.
As our second vintage mandolin for today, we present a lovely Gibson A1, oval sound hole mandolin built during 1915 at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Orville Gibson’s A style and F style mandolins, and larger instruments, were ground-breaking. No-one had seen the way to combine violin and mandolin construction concepts.
Here’s a treat – a Graham Caldersmith Concert Classical guitar from 2009, with lattice-braced Red Cedar top and lovely American Walnut for the back and sides.
The Santa Cruz Guitar Company was founded in 1976 as one of the first ’boutique’ builders, and the versatile OM Orchestra Model has always been popular.
The guitar of choice for blues artist Rory Block, Martin built the now-discontinued OM-28V in two runs – first as the OM-28VR from 1984 to 1990, then as the OM-28V from 1990 to 2014.
