Kentucky KM-270 Artist A-Model Mandolin
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A-style with oval soundhole.
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.
- Solid, handcarved and graduated spruce top
- Solid, handcarved and graduated maple back and 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-inch 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
- Shop-adjusted
- Case sold separately
Order today for the wide-open, ringing, singing sound of an oval soundhole A-style mandolin.
- Back and Side Material: Solid Maple
- Binding: Ivoroid
- Body Style: A-Model
- Bridge Material: Rosewood with Adjustment Wheels
- Fingerboard Binding: White ABS
- Fingerboard Inlay: M-O-P Dots
- Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
- Finish: High-gloss Traditional Sunburst Nitrocellulose
- Neck / Body Joint: Dovetail
- Neck Material: One-piece Maple
- Number of Frets Clear: 14
- Number of Frets Total: 22
- Nut Material: Bone
- Nut Width: 1 1/8"
- Peghead Inlay: Vintage Wreath white pearl and pearl Kentucky script
- Peghead Overlay: Snakehead Rosewood
- Pickguard: Black/White/Black ABS with beveled edge
- Plating: Nickel-plated / Pattern and Logo Stamped
- Scale
- Length: 13 7/8" (352.40mm)
- Sound Hole Shape: Traditional Oval
- Tailpiece: Nickel-plated with coverplate and leather insert
- Top: Solid Spruce
- Top Purfling: None
- Truss Rod: Traditional 2-screw black ABS
- Tuning Machines: High-quality tuning machines with white buttons
