A modern A-style, appropriate to a wide variety of musical idioms. The F-hole design tightens and brightens the sound, making it perfect for chopping bluegrass, and the trebles ring loudly and clearly, and are great for folk, rock, even the classical literature for mandolin. Rumor has it that Beethoven was sweet on a lady who loved the sound of the mandolin, so you can fine some fine Beethoven scored for mandolin. In response to the demands of many contemporary mandolin players, the new KM-950 features a compound radius fingerboard with medium-sized frets for extremely comfortable, fast, and accurate playability for the fretting hand, and a scooped extension over the body making room for a more aggressive rhythm chop of the right hand, common to many pro-level players. Combined, the wider nut and overall fingerboard width, and bridge saddle spacing than traditional vintage instruments, this new A-model is made to play! Most of these player-friendly features are not new and were first pioneered by Kentucky in the late 1970's and early 1980's on our legendary mandolins, produced in collaboration with the world-renowned New York luthier, John Monteleone. In every other respect, the new KM-950 conforms to our ever-popular KM-900 with its hand-carved and graduated solid spruce top and hand-carved and graduated solid figured maple back, sides and neck assuring superb craftsmanship in every feature.Solid, hand-carved and graduated select spruce top Solid, flat-sawn, hand-carved select flamed northern maple back and sides One-piece maple neck with dovetail neck/body joint at the 15th fret Peghead inlaid with Kentucky script and beautiful Fleur De Lys design of genuine pearl Ebony fingerboard with M-O-P dot position markers and highly polished medium sized nickel-silver frets The fingerboard extension over the body has been scooped and inlaid with non-functional nickel-silver fret markers that maintains the traditional look ivoroid binding on all edges Nitrocellulose finish in a traditional 1920's Sunburst Vintage-style ebony bridge with small adjustment wheels and a slightly wider string spacing Traditional 2-screw truss rod cover plate Perfectly shaped M-O-P nut with a wider 1 1/8-inch width Silver-plated, engraved tailpiece with leather insert High-quality, silver-plated Gotoh tuners with engraved plate and removable pearloid buttons Shop adjusted Case sold separately

A modern A-style, appropriate to a wide variety of musical idioms. The F-hole design tightens and brightens the sound, making it perfect for chopping bluegrass, and the trebles ring loudly and clearly, and are great for folk, rock, even the classical literature for mandolin. Rumor has it that Beethoven was sweet on a lady who loved the sound of the mandolin, so you can fine some fine Beethoven scored for mandolin. In response to the demands of many contemporary mandolin players, the new KM-950 features a compound radius fingerboard with medium-sized frets for extremely comfortable