It may sound like a scene right out of “Antiques Roadshow,” but there were no television cameras at the Denver Folklore Center last October when staffer Nick Amodeo picked up the phone. On the line ...

This mandolin was made by the Gibson in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1922. It is an A-4 model, serial number 69625. This mandolin has a wooden body with 8 strings, inlaid design around sound hole and at top ...

The “holy grail of acoustic instruments” was played at The Great Divide music store in Aspen yesterday – a mandolin that dates to 1923 and is worth $100,000. Great Divide owner Sandy Munro was the ...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. — When Wyatt Ellis, 11, first picked up a mandolin at nine years old, his journey got off to a rocky start. "I broke my arm twice," Ellis said. "The second time, I broke it playing ...

Appraisal: 1921 Gibson F4 Mandolin in Vintage Savannah. Take a look at Ken Farmer's appraisal of a 1921 Gibson F4 mandolin, in Vintage Savannah. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry ...

Orville H. Gibson, the founder of Gibson guitars in Kalamazoo, died on August 19, 1918. (WDIV) Orville H. Gibson founded Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Company in Kalamazoo in 1902. It would ...