Best Sellers
Top products on Reverb over the past 90 days
Best Sellers in Folk Instruments - Mandolins
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Eastman MD315 F-Style Mandolin
Finding as beautiful a mandolin as the Eastman MD315 F-Style is a tall order. Hand-crafted according to “Old World” specifications, and adorned with a classical finish, MD315 is as gorgeous as its sound. - 2
Eastman MD305 A-Style Mandolin
The Eastman MD305 A-Style Mandolin is an elegant option for beginner and veteran mandolin players alike. With a solid spruce top on solid maple back and sides, the MD305 delivers timeless mandolin tone with a player-friendly price point. Pairing its classic A-style body shape with a vintage tinged satin finish, the MD305 looks almost as appealing as it sounds. - 3
The Loar LM-310F Honey Creek F-Style Mandolin
Crafted with premium features like a hand-carved spruce top and thin V profile neck, the Loar LM-310F-BRB Honey Creek F-Style Mandolin offers signature old-world sound from the first strum. Get easy access to the upper frets thanks to the removal of the fretboard extension and play without fear of losing your tuning thanks to Grover tuners - 5
The Loar LM-520 Performer F-Style Mandolin
The Loar LM-520-VS mandolin is a study in elegant, minimalistic design. A hand-carved F-style (Florentine) mandolin, it’s a high-quality and great-sounding instrument at an affordable price. What makes the Loar LM-520-VS an attractive budget mandolin is a lack of gold hardware and inlays. But if it sounds great, most players won't miss the ornamentation. - 6
Ibanez M510E Spruce / Sapele A-Style Mandolin with Electronics
- Updated for 2019
- Rosewood bridge and fretboard with flat radius
- Single coil magnetic pickup
- 350mm / 13.7"" scale
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Eastman MD515 F-Style Mandolin
Eastman’s MD515 F-Style Mandolin is, like its MD315 sibling, a study in beauty. Likewise being hand-built according to “Old World” methods, the crafstmanship results in stunning tonal quality and playability. - 11
Michael Kelly Legacy Elegante Amber Burst
The Michael Kelly Legacy Elegante features a hand-carved spruce top, with solid flame maple comprising its F-style body. Its solid tailpiece and increased mass upgrades tone and eliminates any rattle. With radiused fretboards and flame maple binding, the Legacy Elegante boasts both style and fantastic tone. - 14
Kentucky KM-140 Standard A-Style Mandolin
The Kentucky KM-140 Standard A-Model Mandolin is a timeless instrument, capturing the big, plucky sounds of the hills and presenting it in a modern package for today's players. Full and round in profile thanks to the A-style construction, The KM-140 employs maple in the sides and back along with a solid spruce top for projection without sacrificing clarity. An attractive option to professional mando players, the KM-140 Standard is an ideal avenue for any fan of folk. - 15
The Loar LM-600 Professional F-Style Mandolin
The Loar LM-600 F-style mandolin boasts professional-grade sound and features at a wholly affordable price. Crafted and carved from solid spruce and maple with an ebony fretboard, the LM-600 is sonically comparable to the most prized vintage mandolins from the 1920s with a crystal-clear, full tone. A comfortable, rounded V-profile neck and larger frets allow for playing with less force on the strings and more speed. Premium tuners, adjustable trussrod and bridge, and a lifetime warranty will have the LM-600 in top shape for touring and recording musicians for decades to come. - 17
Eastwood Warren Ellis Mandocello
Expanding on the success of their Warren Ellis tenor guitar series, Eastwood has released a line of solid-body electric mandocellos. With eight strings tuned Cc-Gg-dd-aa (in octaves for the C and G courses and doubled notes for the D and A courses), the Warren Ellis mandocello is a load of fun for any musician to expand their tonal capabilities. - 19
Ibanez M510 Spruce / Sapele A-Style Mandolin
- Updated for 2019
- Rosewood bridge and fretboard with flat radius
- Chrome hardware
- 350mm / 13.7"" scale
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Breedlove Crossover FF F-Shape Mandolin
The Breedlove Crossover FF F-Shape Mandolin is a classic arched rendition of an old-world instrument built with the design and components for today's players. Based on a arched top with resonant f-holes on the top, the Crossover incorporates laminated maple on the sides and back with a solid Sitka spruce top to produce tone that will reach the back of the room. Available in a high-gloss natural finish or vintage sunburst, this is a flagship instrument worthy of any serious player's consideration. - 26
Gretsch G9310 New Yorker Supreme Mandolin
The Gretsch G9310 New Yorker Supreme is an A-style mandolin built in the tradition of the classic Gretsch mandos from the 1950s. Featuring mahogany top, back, sides and neck, and a rosewood fingerboard and bridge, the G9310 sports a wonderfully warm and mellow sound compared to more common spruce-topped instruments. Great for the intermediate player looking to upgrade their first instrument, or guitarists looking to add a mandolin to their arsenal for a different texture in their arrangements and recordings, the G9310 New Yorker Supreme is a serious contender that's still wholly affordable. - 29
Martin Vintage A Style Mandolin
The Martin Vintage A Style Mandolin represents an archetype of craftsmanship in the golden era of folk instruments. Full, round, and robust, the A-style body allows you to project while retaining a sedate distinction in every note. Constructed with a flatback design as opposed to the traditional bowl for a more nuanced character and classic appointments like an oval soundhole and rosewood sides/back, this is a crown jewel in any patron's collection. - 31
The Loar LM-500 Contemporary F-Style Mandolin
The Loar LM-500 F-style mandolin features a vintage-tinged sound with modern appointments. The hand-carved spruce top and maple back and sides give the LM-500 a warm, clear sound while the scooped ebony fretboard allows for picking by the neck joint without hitting the upper frets. Most impressively, The Loar LM-500 comes in at an affordable price to make for a serious intermediate-level instrument or a great backup mandolin for the professional - 37
Ibanez M522SBS Sitka Spruce / Flamed Maple Engraved F-Style Mandolin
- Updated for 2019
- Rosewood bridge and fretboard with flat radius
- 350mm / 13.7"" scale
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Fender FM52E Acoustic-Electric Mandolin
The Fender FM52E acoustic-electric mandolin puts forth a lively, full-bodied tone thanks to its full-range pickup that'll have you heard easily over the rest of the band. The spruce top and rosewood fingerboard ensure a nice bright sound and great playability, giving this entry-level mando a sound that's equally as impressive as its fit and finish. - 40
Ibanez M522SDVS Sitka Spruce / Flamed Maple F-Style Mandolin
- Updated for 2019
- Rosewood bridge and fretboard with flat radius
- 350mm / 13.7"" scale
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Rogue RM-100A A-Style Black
With a bright tone and low price tag, the Rogue RM-100A A-Style mandolin is great for beginners. It has an easy-to-play neck and an adjustable rosewood bridge, making it perfect for new players who want to try bluegrass or any other style of music for mandolin. - 51
Fender Mando-Strat 8
Fender helped pioneer the solid body electric mandolin back in the '50s and '60s with a four string model. This modern reissue adds double courses of strings to better replicate playing a traditional mandolin, with a vintage Villager-style headstock and a specially designed pickup.
The Fender Mando-Strat 8 uses a gloss urethane finish over a 13.78" scale length Alder body.
Years of Production: ca. 2013 - present - 55
Johnson MA-100 Mandolin
Johnson is a leader in creating quality entry-level mandolins. The Johnson MA-100 has a nice, bright sound and clean workmanship accompanied by a rosewood fingerboard, adjustable bridge, and chrome tuners. - 56
The Loar LM-220 Performer A-Style Mandolin
The Loar has been offering imported mandolins and guitars designed by Greg Rich since 2005, with most models featuring a hollow body archtop configuration. The company is a division of The Music Link.jj
The LM-220 is an entry level A-style mandolin.
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Ibanez M522S-BS F-Style Mandolin
Looking for the sweet spot between stage-ready craftsmanship and an attainable price point? Look no further than the Ibanez M522S-BS F-Style Mandolin. Boasting a slew of features like an f-style body comprised of flamed maple sides and back with a solid spruce top, a maple set neck, and an adjustable floating rosewood bridge, this model is perfect for campfire jams or barn-stomper gigs. - 60
Fender Mando-Strat
Fender helped pioneer the solid body electric mandolin back in the '50s and '60s with a four string model. This modern reissue takes all the features of the original and provides modern precision, reliability and affordability. Fender also produces an 8-string version, known as the Mando-Strat 8.
The Fender Mando-Strat uses a gloss urethane finish over a 13.78" scale length Alder body.
Years of Production: ca. 2013 - present - 70
Ibanez M510EDVS A-Style Acoustic-Electric Mandolin
A model with a teardrop-style body, magnetic neck pickup, and attainable price point? Done, done, and done. The Ibanez M510EDVS A-Style Acoustic-Electric Mandolin allows you to strum traditional six-string ditties or kick in the pickup volume and tone controls for filling out the sound at a show. Throw in a solid spruce top and mahogany backs and sides and you've got a little behemoth on your hands. - 76
Fender Mandocaster Sunburst 1966
Officially known as the Fender Mandolin and informally as the Mandocaster, this model never fully took off as an electric mandolin. Instead of four courses of strings, it had four single strings.
Years of Production: 1956 - 1976 - 80
Epiphone MM-50E Professional Mandolin
The Epiphone MM-50E Professional Mandolin brings together the allure of traditional craftsmanship and modern appointments by pairing a traditional flame maple back/sides and a solid spruce top with a Quad NanoMag pickup sporting Samarium cobalt magnets powered by a lithium preamp. Built for modern playing with a nod to rustic heritage, the MM-50E is a formidable choice for the touring mandolinist. - 84
Epiphone MM-30S A-Style Mandolin
The Epiphone MM-30S A-Style Mandolin brings old-world sound and construction to the everyman with premium components and a price tag that won't break the bank. Incorporating a flat back that deviated from the traditional bowl-shape of previous mandolins, the MM-30S sports a solid spruce top and mahogany back/sides (a classic pairing) for robust tone without losing the articulation in every note. Perfect for beginners, the reasonable price also makes it a great option for a model to keep around the house to strum. - 85
Epiphone Mandobird 8-String 2011
The Epiphone Mandobird is an electric 8-string mandolin built in the shape of a Firebird. - 86
The Loar LM-700 Supreme F-Style Mandolin
The Loar LM-700 is a professional-grade, expertly crafted F-style mandolin carved from premium spruce and maple. The sound is warm and clear with enormous projection, endless sustain and superior dynamics. The LM-700's bone nut and adjustable truss rod and bridge will keep this beautiful mandolin in great playing shape for touring and recording mandolinists who need a serious, reliable instrument. - 89
Breedlove Crossover OF A-Style Mandolin
The Breedlove Crossover OF NT Mandolin is a culmination of master craftsmanship and premium components, made by and for true enthusiasts of this instrument. Bringing together all solid tone wood throughout the mandolin (laminated maple in the sides and back, Sitka spruce on the top), an arched design, and full character of an O-style body, this model is effuse with old-world refinement. Not just an homage, the Crossover employs a radiused fretboard for a familiar feel to modern players. - 94
Ibanez M510OVS A-Style Mandolin
The Ibanez M510OVS A-Style Mandolin combines high-end construction and appointments with a price point that professionals and enthusiasts can both get behind. Constructed with open-pore mahogany through the back, sides, and neck with a spruce top, the rich midrange is bolstered by an X bracing pattern for consistent response. Finished with a polyurethane high gloss and antique vintage sunburst stain, this is ideal for the stage or the porch. - 99
Eastwood Mandocaster Electric Mandolin
The Eastwood Mandocaster is one of the best-selling electric mandolins in the world, and with good reason. With a classic vintage body shape and comfortable maple neck, the Mandocaster is immensely fun to play, with a range of sounds thanks to two single coil pickups that are clear as a bell and free from noise. Perfect for any mandolinist looking to break into effects pedals or being heard over a rock band, or guitar players looking for a different texture in their arrangements and recordings.
