Links of Interest
Forums and discussion groups on the web:
Mandolin Cafe: http://www.mandolincafe.com
Co-Mando archives: http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=comando&H=listserve.nodak.edu
Luthier Forum: http://luthierforum.com
Music Publications:
Mandolin Magazine: http://www.mandolinmagazine.com
Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine: http://www.bluegrassmusic.com
Vintage Guitar Magazine online: http://vintageguitar.com/
Musician Websites:
Emory Lester: http://www.emorylester.com
Mark Johnson- Clawgrass: http://www.clawgrass.com/
The Grasslands Quintette: http://www.Grasslandsmusic.com
Don Stiernberg: http://www.donstiernberg.com/
Harmonius Wail: http://www.wail.com/index.htm
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: http://www.nittygritty.com/
The Old Times Country and Blues Review: http://www.otcbr.com/
Music Associations:
Northern Illinois Bluegrass Assoc.: http://www.nibaweb.org
International Bluegrass Music Association: http://www.ibma.org/
Midwest Bluegrass Festivals: http://www.bluegrassmidwest.com
Southern Wisconsin Bluegrass Assoc.: http://www.swbmai.org
Acoustic Sound, Inc., producers of Wintergrass: http://www.wintergrass.com/
Guild of American Luthiers: http://www.luth.org/
A.S.I.A.- Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans: http://www.guitarmaker.org/
Montana Mandolin Society: http://www.montanamando.com/index.htm
Musician and Luthier Supplies and Such:
Big City Strings: http://www.bigcitystrings.com
Cool Mandolin Company: http://www.coolmandolin.com
King Brown Handcrafts: www.kingbrownhandcrafts.com
Randy Allen: http://www.allenguitar.com/
Bruce Harvie- Orcas Island Tonewoods: http://www.rockisland.com/~tonewoods/
Shertler pickups: http://www.schertlerusa.com/
Elderly Instuments: http://www.elderly.com/
Dandreapicks.com: http://www.dandreapicks.com./
Mandolin Brothers: http://www.mandolinbrothers.com/
Musicians Friend: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/
Greg Boyd's House of Fine Instruments: http://www.gregboyd.com/
Bryan England's Custom Inlay: http://www.custominlay.com/
Glen Rose Music: http://acousticmusicsupply.com
Big City Strings- strings of all kinds and picks: http://www.bigcitystrings.com/picks.htm
International Violin: http://www.internationalviolin.com/
First Quality Music Supply: http://www.fqms.com/
Just Strings. com: http://juststrings.com/
MidContinent Music: http://www.midcontinentmusic.com
Peterson Electro Musical Products- strobe tuners: http://www.petersonemp.com/
Vintage Broadcast Microphones: http://www.k-bay106.com/mics.htm
dr strings: http://www.drstrings.com/
Wegen picks: http://www.wegenpicks.com/
Allied Lutherie- luther materials and tools: http://www.alliedlutherie.com/index.html
Red Bear Trading- developers of the the Tortis pick: http://www.redbeartrading.com/
Roger Siminoff's site: books, plans, Loar history, etc: http://www.siminoff.net/
12th Fret- Canadian store/ site: http://www.12fret.com
AllParts.com: http://www.allparts.com/
Gruven Musical Products- guitar and mandolin stands, etc.: http://gruven-stands.com
George Gruhn's site: http://www.gruhn.com/
Hal Galper: http://www.halgalper.com/
Ralph Patt: http://www.ralphpatt.com/
Highly Strung International: http://www.highlystrung.co.uk/acatalog/index.html
R. &. F. Charle: http://www.rfcharle.com
Other Informative Mandolin and Music Related Websites:
Frets.com: http://www.frets.com
Mandozine: http://www.mandozine.com
Site linking to many other sites about world music, including bluegrass and much more: http://www.geocities.com/dawgmando/
John Baldry's Bluegrass Mandolin site: http://www.btinternet.com/~john.baldry/mando/
JazzMando.com by Ted Eschliman: http://www.jazzmando.com/
The Tao of the Mandolin by John Bird: http://www.birdnest.org/birdj/music/taoman.htm
Museum of Musical Instruments: http://www.themomi.org/
THE Slingerland guitar informational site: http://www.slingerlandguitar.com/
Lyrics Freak: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/
Mel Bay's Webzine site- huge amount of instructional info: http://www.melbay.com/webzines.asp
Mandolin Archive: http://www.mandolinarchive.com/
DjangoBooks.com: http://djangobooks.com
Mandolin Sessions.com- much instructional info: http://www.mandolinsessions.com
Amazing song lyrics site: http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/lyricsbb.html
Gypsy Jazz Guitar: http://gypsyjazzguitar.com/
Software:
String Tension Calculator: http://www.mcdonaldstrings.com/stringxxiii.html
Tabledit tablature editor: http://www.tabledit.com/
Cool Edit: http://www.syntrillium.com/
Band In A Box: http://www.band-in-a-box.com/
Virtual Bluegrass Band- bluegrass stuff for Band In A Box: http://www.virtualbluegrassband.com
Seventh String Software- Home of Transcribe software: http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/