I buy and sell mandolins & fiddles

A-style Travel Mandolin

In addition to offering private and group music lessons, I buy and sell mandolins & fiddles, accessories and other music-related gear.  I also rehair violin/viola/cello/bass bows and perform setups on mandolin-related and violin-related instruments.  Please ask.

If you have an old violin or mandolin kicking around and you’d like to get rid of it, send me pictures (and video so I can hear what it sounds like). 

If it’s something I think I can use, I’ll make an offer.  I might ask you to bring it in to my studio in Granby, MA. 

If you’re not local, I will definitely need closeup pictures, pics of any damage or wear & tear, and a video of someone playing it.

Send pics and video to info@sweetmusicstudio.net

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Going Back To My Roots, To Discover My Musical Heritage

The Sweets were Tories during the Revolutionary War.  They fled to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia during the conflict.  They became ship captains, ship builders, carpenters and later bone setters and doctors.  Their music would have been the Maritime music of Cape Breton and Newfoundland.

•  Here's an example of what that music might have sounded like

The Merry Family was strictly Protestant.  The only music they enjoyed was devotional and that was strictly controlled.  They basically had no music other than what was allowed in church.

The Kieltys were Scotts-Irish, originally from western Scotland, the land settled by the Gaels in pre-colonial times.  Their music would have been the music of the Celts using bagpipes, fiddles, fifes and drums for war and good times.

• Here's an example of what that music might have sounded like