Selected Links

Selected links for mandolin, guitar, mandolin orchestra, bluegrass and more

On this page I have collected some interesting links to other internet sites.

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I am usually adding tags to my links and include a caption. With the tags you can easily find all the links for one topic. It is also possible to select additional tags and so find links for a combination of tags.

On the right hand side I have added a screenshot with a selction of my tags.

To make it more convenient I have listed some of my interesting tags about mandolin, guitar and bluegrass.

Links about mandolin in general	mandoline
Links about guitar in general	gitarre
Links about lutherie of mandolins, guitars and other stringed instruments	instrumentenbau
Links about mandolin orchestras, plectrum orchestras, mandolin ensembles	mandolinenorchester
Links about sheet music with many free sheetmusic sources	noten
Links about bluegrass music	bluegrass
Links about choro and Brazilian music	choro brasilianische_musik
Links about mandolin and guitar duos	mandoline_und_gitarre
Links about how to learn to play the mandolin - instructions, free lessons and more	mandoline_lernen
Links about how to learn music	noten_lernen
Links about the ukulele	ukulele
youtube Links	youtube

More links

	In the Mandolin Cafe Message Board you can find a huge mass of information about everything related to the mandolin. You can take part in discussions, upload pictures and get help for your problems. You can also go to the Mandolin Cafe Homepage to finde more information including a almost complete list of all builders of mandolins and much more.
	A site of a luthier specialized in lutes, copies of old mandolins and a mandola after Paul Hums: Matthias Wagner His shop is close to Freiburg near Müllheim.
	Country Music im Dreiländereck - alles was man wissen muss Information about Country-, Bluegrass- and Americana-Bands in the Southwest of Germany around Freiburg. Michael Zumstein has the best contacts to bands and venues in the region. Website: countrymusicfreiburg
	A German onlineshop for mandolins with many interesting pictures of mandolins: www.bluegrass.de
	Onlineshop for mandolins and guitars from the USA: Elderly
	Onlineshop for mandolins and guitars from the USA: Gruhn Guitars \| THE Source for the Vintage Instrument World
	Onlineshop for vintage mandolins and guitars from the USA: Carter Vintage Guitars
	Another great site for finding vintage and new guitars or mandolins is Vintage Guitars on VintageandRare.com Mandolins can be found here: Mandolin-mandolin-family-190
	Carlo Mazzaccara has a shop in Napoli. He builds Neapolitan mandolins and restores old mandolins by Calace, Vinaccia and Embergher. On his homepage oldmandolin.com you can find many pictures of old mandolins he has restored.
	The Mandolinenorchester Euterpe from Bozen has compiled a huge collection of Links related to the mandolin from all over the world. I think this might be the most complete and up to date collection I know.
.	The Website of the Italian federation of mandolin orchestras FMI: Federazione Mandolinistica Italiana
	Ralf Leenen und Barry Pratt have written a book about mandolins by Luigi Embergher. This book can be ordered from Book about Embergher Mandolins und Aufnahmen The site contains many examples of Embergher mandolins played by Ralf Leenen and his orchestra Orchester Royal Estudiantina 'La Napolitaine', Antwerpen
	Haus der Musik Joachim Trekel The source for sheet music for mandolin and plucked Instruments (classical and mandolin orchestra) Joachim Trekel is a publishing company specialized in music for mandolin and plucked instruments - you can find almost everything available for plucked instruments. You can order sheet music, instruments and other stuff from the onlineshop.
	Martin's Musikkiste - very personal and excellent online shop with a large selection of strings at very good prices.
	mandolinoitaliano - Marco Onoratis Shop for "Vintage and Rare Italian Mandolins" - They also offer copies of Embergher mandolins.
	The Acoustic Music Company - This shop in Brighton has a large selection of excellent mandolins, including Gibson, Weber, Northfield, Collings, Phoenix, Oldwave and also mandolins and octave mandolins built especially for AMC.
	The bigger brothers of the archtop mandolins are the archtop guitars. Archtop guitars are mainly used in Jazz, the German site Archtop-germany contains all about makers, players, etc.
	Dawgnet - Website of David Grismans Acoustic Disc; you can listen to 2 complete songs from each Acoustic Disc release.
	Osamu Motoi has a large database about mandolin music, you can find composers, compositions, operas and mandolin concertos, mandolin methods and much more!
	Tunefox - Learn to play Bluegrass instuments online. Tunefox is a web and app based learning tool designed to help people learn bluegrass songs and licks for guitar, mandolin, bass and banjo. Each song in Tunefox has 3 versions - Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced (or Backup, Scruggs, and Melodic for banjo) - and each of those arrangements has switchable licks. All demo videos are available in the tunefox youtube channel for free.

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