
Our Discount Price is $3,089.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $2,996.00. Did we mention the Spirit Varnish finish? Perhaps the crowning touch of elegance on the new KM-1500 is the traditional “Fern” inlay of Abalone pearl, carefully inlaid in just below the white pearl Kentucky logo. The elegantly gold-plated and engraved tuning machines and tailpiece are in perfect harmony with the understated elegance of the finish and workmanship. The delicately shaded Cremona sunburst finish is as close to the originals as you will ever see. These solid woods are meticulously hand carved and graduated just as were the fabled originals of the early. The new master model KM-1500 from Kentucky uses the finest, most highly figured Michigan maple combined with the whitest, most fine-grained Adirondack spruce.

These solid woods are meticulously handcarved and graduated - just as were the fabled originals of the early ’20s - to achieve the finest tone quality and volume possible in a new instrument. Kentucky KM-1500 Master F-Model Mandolin Vintage Sunburst. The master model KM-1500 from Kentucky uses the finest, most highly figured Michigan Maple combined with the whitest, most fine-grained Adirondack Spruce. I would also suggest one or two starter lessons to make sure you don’t learn any habits that cause problems later that you’ll have to unlearn.#12030073, made with Spirit Varnish (the newer version is lacquer finished - varnish is the best) with hard shell case. If your local music shop is snobby, tell ‘em to piss off and look in your local golden pages under guitars, call all the music shops and asked for recommended luthiers.

Just a is noted above, go to or where you’ll find exercises, bluegrass, ITM, blues, etc.

It’s like getting a used car tuned up just after you buy it!įor $20, I have mine recent new purchase setup he set he bridge correctly, adjusted the nut to the string type I was using, and set the action to my preference, (distance from string to fret on the fingerboard). Another suggestion you may want to consider soon after you make your purchase, (a Kentucky 150 was my first mando, and I played it for several years before I outgrew it), find a local luthier and have him/her ‘setup’ your instrument.
