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Weber lead luthier Ryan Fish is always thinking about the mandolin

Weber lead luthier Ryan Fish is always thinking about the mandolin

It’s front of mind, whether playing, designing, building … or just petting the dog A dog barks, looking out on a field of Shetland sheep grazing their way through a misty Oregon morning. It’s a kind alarm, with no menace, just greeting the day. What’s telling is the pooch’s name. Mando. “I love mandolin,” Ryan Fish says matter of factly. “I think about it a lot.” As lead luthier at Weber Fine Acoustic Instruments, Fish is immersed in...

Happy Earth Day! A Note to Mother Earth from Tom Bedell

Dear Earth, Dear Mother, It is from you that all living things spring. You have nurtured so many varied communities of plants and animals; neighborhoods of symbiotic vitality and energy, every one interdependent on the other—each life maintained by the power of the sun, sustained by the glory of the rain; each life defined by the resources of the skies, the lands and the waters that give us birth, foster our existence and define our passing. On this day, Earth Day, we honor you, and...

“There is no Megan without an instrument around.”

“There is no Megan without an instrument around.”

Acoustic Music SLC Owner Megan Peters keeps her doors, and her arms, open. Salt Lake City’s Megan Peters has a guitar bench in the back of her Subaru. She’s been making deliveries, and the occasional repair on the fly. “And if someone needs a re-string,” she laughs, “I'll just pull up to their house after work. They can leave the instrument out front, I'll do the job in my car and then put it back on the porch.” Peters, a songwriter with four albums...

Going to the Source for Sustainable Honduran Mahogany

Swietenia macrophylla. Big leaf mahogany. Often called Honduran mahogany or genuine mahogany, by any name it is one of the world’s most renowned tonewoods, a precious commodity grown naturally only in a thin band from southern Mexico to northern South America. It is the great yin to rosewood’s yang—warm, dry and midrangey, it counters the former’s bloom of overtones with a beautiful directness, emphasizing the fundamental with an organ-like clarity and definition....

Weber Workshop and Front Office Closed Until April 20th

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bend, Oregon offices and workshops of two Old Hippies Stringed Instruments  (Breedlove, Bedell & Weber) will be closed until Monday, April 20th. This closure will allow us to protect the health, employment and benefits of all CoHippies, who will now stay at home with family and practice appropriate social distancing. We look forward to being able to communicate with you on our return and we wish you good health as we hope for a swift resolution to this...

Sustainability and your Weber mandolin

Sustainability and your Weber mandolin

Tom Bedell believes best building practices and consumer responsibility go hand in hand towards saving the environment—and making great mandolins! Your Weber mandolin is a thing of beauty. You can’t put it down. It calls to you. When you’re not busy being fascinated by its sound and its supple playability, you’re looking at it on its stand, enchanted by its visual appeal. The new Pronghorn, perhaps, catches your eye with its symmetrical points and curves and dark walnut...

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