Clarinda's Music

Mandolins, Banjos, Guitars

**We Ship worldwide**

Located in Greenbrier Arkansas, Clarinda's Crafts & Music specializes in mandolins.  We also carry beautiful guitars and banjos. We set up each instrument to play like butter, and bark like a bluetick coon hound.  You tell us what you want, body style, brand, wood, type of strings, strap, color, case, we aim to please. We take hours to complete a full setup with each instrument, to make sure it plays like you want it too. Please e-mail or call us if you have any questions. When you are ready to buy, just click the "Buy it Now" icon and pay using your credit card, or Paypal account. All our instruments carry warranties. Take a look at all our mandolins, banjos, & Guitars, I am sure you will find something you like.

Special Mandolin Sales

New Morgan Monroe MDM-1 F-style Mandolin & Case
(Solid Carved Spruce and Solid Carved Flamed Maple)

The Morgan Monroe MDM-1 F-Style mandolin is crafted from solid hand carved spruce and flamed maple. The neck is fitted with a radiused ebony fretboard, double adjustable truss rod, and bone nut. This model has Grover tuners ( I love those) and a solid cast Ashton Baily tailpiece. This model is designed here in the USA to have enlarged F-holes, scalloped bi-level tone bars and a very resonant highly graduated carved spruce top. The back is also hand carved and graduated too.


Special Sale $699 


New Recording King Madison RK-R35  5 string Resonator Banjo with Case

Howdy Folks. The Recording King RK-R35 has all the professional features any banjo player would want. It has a Mastertone-Style Bell Brass Cast Tone Ring, one piece Mastertone-Style banjo flange, and a 24-hook brass tension hoop.  This is one beautifully designed banjo. It has a warm vintage banjo sound, clear, clean, extra robust volume, choir like tone. This is  the best in the Madison line that you can buy. It retails for $1,066. The first thing that catches your eye on this banjo is the beautiful brown hand rubbed satin finish over all that beautiful maple.  It has a 3-ply steam bent maple rim, Solid maple resonator, and solid maple neck. The neck has a bone nut, and the headstock is fitted with planetary tuners. The rim has dual coordinator rods and is fitted with a 11" high crown frosted Remo head. The hardware is all nickle plated and looks amazing. I love the beautiful sound of this banjo. This baby is fully setup and adjusted here in the USA. It will ship in a new case.



Special Sale Price:  $645  


New Loar LM220-VS Acoustic Mandolin & Gig Bag

(All Solid Carved Spruce & Solid Carved Maple)



Howdy folks. IF you want to learn how to play mandolin, and you want a wonderful all hand carved mandolin from the best spruce and maple, look no further. I would compare the sound and resonance of this all solid wood hand made mandolin to the Kentucky KM909. It is just that loud, and woody sounding. The top is solid spruce, and the back and sides are solid carved maple. The neck is solid maple, fitted with a double adjustable truss rod, and polished bone nut. This model looks simple, but believe me, it is not. It is scalloped X-bracing like the Weber mandolins, and an ebony adjustable Loar bridge. I include a gig bag with each mandolin and full setup. This instrument comes with a 2 year warranty

**Sale Price $379


 

All New Morgan Monroe MDM-2 F-Style Mandolin & Case

Plays and Sounds Wonderful
Wider Neck radiused neck - 3.1 cm width Bone Nut
The Morgan Monroe MDM-2 F-Style mandolin is crafted from solid hand carved spruce and flamed maple. The neck is fitted with a radiused ebony fretboard, double adjustable truss rod, and bone nut. This model has antique style tuners with black buttons ( I love those) and a solid cast Ashton Baily tailpiece. This model is designed here in the USA to have enlarged F-holes, scalloped bi-level tone bars and a very resonant highly graduated carved spruce top. The back is also hand carved and graduated too. This finish is hand rubbed oil and distressed to give it that road warn look.



 Special Sale Price: $729 


                                              

New Savannah SF200 with Case

      (All Solid Carved Spruce & Solid Carved Maple from the makers of the Loar Mandolins)
Believe it or not, this mandolin is a beautiful as it looks, and plays just as nice. It has solid carved spruce top, and solid carved maple, back, sides and neck. The neck has a polished 3cm bone nut, double adjustable truss rod and solid rosewood fretboard.



**Sale Price** $374 


**New Loar LM-520 F-style Mandolin & Case**

(Solid Hand Carved Spruce & Solid Carved Maple)
This is the common man's answer to a Gibson. All solid carved spruce and maple, double adjustable truss rod, bone nut. These babies play super smooth, with Grover tuners, and rose wood fretboard. 

 

Regular Sale Price $499
**Special sale Price Click here-Includes case**


NEW Morgan Monroe MM-100-BKE Acoustic/Electric F-style Mandolin with Case


Need and acoustic/electric mandolin with quality and beautiful tone, ten look no further. Morgan Monroe has built a midnight beauty in your price range. So good is the quality on their MM-100-BKE Acoustic / Electric F-style mandolin, that she carries a Life Time warranty. The top is select spruce, and the back, sides and neck are maple. Neck has double adjustable truss rod. The bridge has a pickup built right in and you tone and volume controls . My F-style mandolin of personal choice has always been a Morgan Monroe. I just can't put it down.




  Mandolin plays like a dream and sounds amazing

**Special Weekend Sale Price**



New Loar LM-700-VS F-Style Mandolin with Case

LIFE TIME WARRANTY


This mandolin plays and sounds amazing. this is the most fun you can have without breaking the law. It has full setup, a good polish, and a new set of strings. This a great opportunity to get an amazing mandolin at a super price. It is hand carved with a solid spruce top, and solid carved figured maple back, sides and neck. Ebony bridge and fretboard. Double adjustable truss rod, and bone nut. Vintage Gotoh mandolin tuners with full multiply body binding. This as close to a Lloyd Loar mandolin you can get without getting in a time machine.

**Special sale price** $1,124 


New Big Muddy Mandola MW-14

Made in the USA




Howdy folks. Want bass in a mandola body, we got bass. Want smooth sweet trebles, we'll make you fall in love. I just got in this new MW-14 Big Muddy Mandola straight from the Luthier in Missouri. You can play it like a mandola, tuned CC-GG-DD-AA or you can tune it up with mandolin strings and play it like a mandolin GG-DD-AA-EE. The top is solid spruce, and the back and sides are solid walnut. The neck is crafted from mahogany with a rose wood fret board and steel truss rod. If you want to learn the mandolin, coming from guitar or banjo, this is the instrument for you. It has a 1 1/4 inch width bone nut, and a longer scale length also. The body is deeper too than a regular mandolin.This instrument comes with a 2 year warranty from Big Muddy Mandolins right out of Missouri.

Special Sale Price$730

Special Order March 2012


 New Big Muddy MW-0 Mandolin
(Made in the USA)
(Custom Mandolins Made in Missouri)


These are some of the finiest sounding mandolins I have ever heard. I love Irish celtic music and bluegrass gospel. I wanted a mandolin that could do all that, and this is the one. The top is solid spruce, and the back and sides are solid walnut. The neck is mahogany. I love the way it feels. It has a steel truss rod and a 1 1/8th inch bone nut. The fretboard and bridge are both rosewood. This model is simple, no binding to get in the way of the beautiful wood. Very woody tone and nock your socks off volume. Why buy made in China, when made the USA sounds so good. This instrument comes with a 2 year warranty from Big Muddy Mandolins

**Special Sale Price** $550 

Sale Price Includes Hard Shell Case

Available March 2012

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