Ive never seen one for sale before today:
https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/185213#185213
Ive never seen one for sale before today:
https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/185213#185213
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This is the first time I've heard of the maker.
Apparently rare.
But . . . There's one on reverb also. I'm too lazy to type out the whole link, so someone else is welcome to do it.
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2005 National RM-1
2007 Hester A5
2009 Passernig A5
2015 Black A2-z
2010 Black GBOM
2017 Poe Scout
2014 Smart F-Style Mandola
2018 Vessel TM5
2019 Hogan F5
No, there's another one in Ashland, Massachusetts; price reduced.
Me neither. Had no clue they were that pricey.....
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Never saw a used one for sale either, but the 'Avital' model suggests the level of intended player. The workmanship suggests a high price.
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I had missed that one. There’s suddenly a glut in the market!
https://reverb.com/item/50341393-201...back-and-sides
1924 Gibson A Snakehead
2005 National RM-1
2007 Hester A5
2009 Passernig A5
2015 Black A2-z
2010 Black GBOM
2017 Poe Scout
2014 Smart F-Style Mandola
2018 Vessel TM5
2019 Hogan F5
I think it's more that the high price suggests fine workmanship, which I would like to believe is the case here, though I have no way of knowing this. I've never seen a flat-top being offered for anywhere near that much. But that could just be me, with my longstanding devotion to carved tops, being unaware. (Please don't flood this thread with examples intended to disprove my assertion; I'll grant I could be greatly underinformed on the subject, and such examples will be unnecessary.) I just took a look here because I was curious to see what the title meant. I still don't get it - this isn't called that - but then, I have seen the term "unicorn" bandied about a lot lately, and have no idea why. Something to do with exceptional rarity, I guess?
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1924 Gibson A Snakehead
2005 National RM-1
2007 Hester A5
2009 Passernig A5
2015 Black A2-z
2010 Black GBOM
2017 Poe Scout
2014 Smart F-Style Mandola
2018 Vessel TM5
2019 Hogan F5
Aha. Thanks! I've never even heard of Kerman. But to be a member here is to learn ... so much!
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
1924 Gibson A Snakehead
2005 National RM-1
2007 Hester A5
2009 Passernig A5
2015 Black A2-z
2010 Black GBOM
2017 Poe Scout
2014 Smart F-Style Mandola
2018 Vessel TM5
2019 Hogan F5
Am I correct to think I am seeing a carved back and some sort of internal secondary soundboard?
There are rumors someone had planned to post a lower level model of Schmergel on the Cafe ads but Scott or one of the moderators gently dissuaded them from posting it. Reverb flat out refused because they were afraid the responses would blow up their bandwidth.
Wow. Would love to play a Kerman sometime. Spectacular looking mandolin.
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Out of my price range, but they're are beautiful, looks and sound.
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I believe some of these have a double top. Rare? Since there are now two on Reverb, I am not sure what to think. While not my cup of tea, the disparity in the resale pricing and both claiming to have outwitted professional players who covet these.....I don't know. As we've seen of late, marketing is a double-edged sword.
Last edited by Mandobar; Mar-24-2022 at 8:38am.
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I know a wonderful classical player who gets the phone call whenever the Chicago Symphony needs a mandolin. She looked into getting a Kerman and was turned down by the builder because she wasn't high-profile enough, I guess. It's not just the build quality of the instrument, it's the difficulty of obtaining one even if you have the lettuce.
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I got to play Jacob Reuven's Kerman mandolin at a workshop a while ago and it really raised the bar for me. The mandolin and the experience of playing it were so significant that I wrote a blog about it.
It is exciting that some of these mandolins are coming to the open market. I have no doubt, none, absolutely none, that, if real, the price on that Kerman is worth it, every penny of it.
Yea, real rare, as in the question "has one ever been sold via a market?" Arik Kerman, as I have understood it, picked a superlative player, made a mandolin optimized to that player's style of play, and sold it to him or her. The only folks who owned them were stratospherically talented mandolinners, and maybe some of their students.
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