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Links checked Sept 23, so please let me know if you find any that no longer work. Thanks, Dave

Mandolin Info

mandolin cafe    The ultimate mandolin site, with stacks of information and expertise, plus an exclusively mandolin forum.
www.mandolinscotland.org    Website of Scotland's guitar and mandolin orchestra.

www.embergher.com

   History of the famous Embergher mandolins, some superb photos, and mandolins to die for.

Calace Mandolins

   Calace mandolins home site, including some excellent information about mandolin development and building. Italian site with English translation.

www.oldmandolin.com 

   Italian luthier and mandolin maker and restorer. Interesting site for collector and restorer.
Crane Mandolin Site    This is a link to a page on this useful mandolin site, which deals with stringing Milanese mandolins.... 
     
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Parts Suppliers

STEW MAC Luthier Supplies

   Excellent lutherie supplier, particularly parts, specialised tools, and books. Good advice sheets.

Touchstone Tonewoods.co.uk

   A good general parts and wood supplier situated just north of London, close to M25.

Luthier Mercantile Intern. Inc

   What Stew Mac hasn't got, these guys have. Also more excellent advice sheets.

Dictum Tools

   German site, also in English. The best source of woodworking tools.

www.kauffer.com

   A good wood supplier in France, with fairly good English translations.

Hammerl GmbH & Co. KG

   Superb German dye and finishing site.

www.kremer-pigmente.de 

   A good German site and my source of shellac.

 

 

Other Favourite Links

Han's Irish Bouzouki Homepage

   An excellent site for bouzouki and related instrument information. Han has now sadly died, but his very useful site has been archived. Thus there will be no changes

Alfred Woll's Mandolin Site

   German site with English translations, some excellent work on  bowlback restoration and customising.

Andy's Banjos

   A good banjo site, supplies all the kit for restorations. Overlap with mandolin banjos.

www.lutesandguitars.co.uk

   Stephen Barber & Sandi Harris, Lute makers site, precursors of the present mandolin.

john maddock's waldzither page

   A nice informative site by another restoration enthusiast, with plenty of useful info on waldzithers.

Andrew Hartig's Cittern Site

   Andrew is a mine of information on anything cittern-related.

The Harp Guitars of Joseph Bohmann

   Didn't know what a harp guitar was? An amazing page showing some extra-ordinary instruments.

Christophe Mineau Woodworking

  A nice site with lots of different woodworking stuff than mine....

A Psimple Psaltery - Let's Build One!

   Excellent site on building a bowed psaltery. All you need to know, almost!
   

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String/tension Calculators

Graham McDonald's Calculator

   I have found this one of the best, but there are others.

http://www.kennaquhair.com/ustc.htm

   One of them..... try a Google search.

 

 
 

General Lutherie Links

http://www.luth.org/index.html

   Guild of American Lutherie, not much about mandolins, but a superb links page for all lutherie.
www.mimf.com/    General Musical Instrument Makers Forum, but covering lots of issues involved with building mandolins.
Stew Mac's Help Pages    An excellent source of 'how to' sheets, plus the back up of ordering those specialised bits you didn't know existed, but had always wanted. NB liquids cannot be exported any more!! (Varnishes, etc.)

   Mikes Oud Forum

   A great site for information on bowl building and luthiery, though related to the oud. Skills and techniques transferable to the mando.
   
 

Harp Links

www.sligoharps.com

   A great site, a must if you are thinking of building a harp.

www.harpkit.com

   A useful site for plans and supplies.

www.harpsatsang.com

   Very useful if you want to calculate your own string lengths.
   
 

Waldzither Links

Waldzither restoration page

 John Maddocks waldzither page, some useful info and links

German Waldzither History

 Andreas Michel's pages on his reasearch into waldzither history and development, in German.

Bohm/Gewa History Site

 A great site constructed by Norbert Feinendegen, in German, but will be in English soon I understand.....

Bohm History Site

 A great site constructed by Norbert Feinendegen, in German, but will be in English soon I understand.....

Poitou-Charente Local Music Links

Corrigans

 Corrigans Irish pub in La Rochelle (no longer updated)

Bordeaux 33 Irish music site

 The local site for Irish music in the Bordeaux area. (no longer updated)

Courant d'Eire

 Local site run by Courant d'Eire of La Rochelle (no longer updated)