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/