Northfield NFM-M4 Carved Top Mandola (2023)
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Northfield NFM-M4 Model Carved Top Mandola (2023), made in Marshall, Michigan, serial # MD230007, shaded finish, maple back, sides and neck, spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, rigid foam case.
Northfield Mandolins are really fine modern mid-line instruments featuring excellent materials with very high build quality and a close attention to detail. Northfield was founded by a team of experienced luthiers in both Michigan and China with the goal of producing the highest quality instruments they can, and have proved very successful. This NFM-M4 is a unique design of mandola, designed and built in Marshall, Michigan by the Northfield team. It is crafted with an 11 1/4" wide oval body, carved F-hole top and longer 16 1/2" scale than the traditional Gibson Mandolas of 100+ years ago. It is somewhat reminiscent of Lloyd Loar's stillborn 1923 TL-1 Tenor Lute, but double strung with a more functional scale length for mandola tuning. This is a fine playing, excellent sounding instrument which has no exact vintage equivalent, a lot of fun to play and offering some cool and unique sonic qualities for the mandolinist, tenor player or dedicated mandolist (the few, the proud!).
Overall length is 29 3/4 in. (75.6 cm.), 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm.) across at the widest point, and 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 16 1/2 in. (419 mm.). Width of nut is 1 1/4 in. (32 mm.).
This instrument shows some light handling wear, but very little evidence it has been used much at all. It sounds and plays great, an instrument with its own distinctive character. Excellent + Condition.
Northfield Mandolins are really fine modern mid-line instruments featuring excellent materials with very high build quality and a close attention to detail. Northfield was founded by a team of experienced luthiers in both Michigan and China with the goal of producing the highest quality instruments they can, and have proved very successful. This NFM-M4 is a unique design of mandola, designed and built in Marshall, Michigan by the Northfield team. It is crafted with an 11 1/4" wide oval body, carved F-hole top and longer 16 1/2" scale than the traditional Gibson Mandolas of 100+ years ago. It is somewhat reminiscent of Lloyd Loar's stillborn 1923 TL-1 Tenor Lute, but double strung with a more functional scale length for mandola tuning. This is a fine playing, excellent sounding instrument which has no exact vintage equivalent, a lot of fun to play and offering some cool and unique sonic qualities for the mandolinist, tenor player or dedicated mandolist (the few, the proud!).
Overall length is 29 3/4 in. (75.6 cm.), 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm.) across at the widest point, and 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 16 1/2 in. (419 mm.). Width of nut is 1 1/4 in. (32 mm.).
This instrument shows some light handling wear, but very little evidence it has been used much at all. It sounds and plays great, an instrument with its own distinctive character. Excellent + Condition.