Kentucky KM-270 Artist A-Style Mandolin All-Solid Vintage Sunburst Nitrocellulose Finish
Product Code: KM-270
Our Price: $595.00
Description
Before 1922, most popular mandolins had Oval-shaped sound holes;
offering a distinctive sound that played a significant role in shaping
the sound of popular music of the day. The diminutive size, unique
voice, and relative affordability made it perfect for a wide range of
musical styles. To this day, vintage examples of these popular A-style
instruments are still played by discerning musicians and coveted by
collectors around the world. Now, anyone can afford to own this
legendary mandolin design in a Kentucky KM-270 A-style mandolin with the
oval sound hole! Incorporating the best features of vintage designs,
and using only the best tone woods, each instrument is expertly
hand-carved and graduated to produce an instrument with a tone, look and
build quality of highly prized collectible instruments. So take a step
back in time by playing a new instrument that combines all the best
features of old and the new -priced so that is affordable to all
players.
Kentucky KM-270 A-Model Mandolin Features:
- Solid, handcarved and graduated spruce top
- Solid, handcarved and graduated maple back & sides
- Authentic, vintage 1920s-style body design
- Traditional oval soundhole
- One-piece maple neck with dovetail neck/body joint at the 14th fret
- Rosewood fingerboard with mother-of-pearl dot position markers
- Fingerboard bound in white ABS
- Vintage-correct raised pickguard of laminated black/white/black ABS with beveled edge and vintage-style attachment hardware
- Snakehead rosewood peghead with rosewood overlay depicting a vintage Wreath design and Kentucky logo script in white pearl
- Vintage-style, adjustable rosewood bridge with small adjustment wheels
- Traditional 2-screw black truss rod cover
- Bone nut
- 13 7/8" (352.40mm) scale length
- 22 highly-polished nickel silver frets
- Nickel-plated tailpiece and coverplate with Kentucky script and leather insert
- High-quality tuning machines with accurate 18:1 gear ratio and plastic buttons
- High-gloss nitrocellulose vintage sunburst finish
- 1 Year Warranty