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05-30-2021, 07:18 AM
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Ronnie Barnes F-5 Master Model mandolin
FOR SALE: Ronnie Barnes F-5 Master Model (1998). You won't see a Ronnie Barnes mandolin come up for sale very often. This one was custom made for me, completed in 1998 (Barnes Master Model 98-0001). Advancing age and health issues dictate that I put this pampered instrument on the market, although I am quite attached to it.
  I first became aware of Ronnie Barnes's mandolins when I was captured by the tone of one being played by Lou Reid on albums recorded with his band "Carolina" in the early-to-mid 1990s. In an obituary published just after Ronnie's untimely death at age 64 in 2019, BLUEGRASS TODAY called Ronnie "one of the most talented and creative bluegrass musicians ever to emerge from eastern Virginia...Ronnie also built fine flathead banjos, and exquisite mandolins. He was a deft and natural craftsman, whose day job prior to retirement was as a model maker for NASA..." My Barnes Master Model has maple back and sides, Sitka spruce top, X-bracing, 9.5-inch radiused fingerboard, lacquer finish, fat frets, and Price tailpiece. This mandolin has a few very minor blemishes, and very minor fret wear. It has had only light use (I am a mere living room dabbler). It has seldom been out of the house, and has spent most of the last 10 years in a safe. However, I have had a few opportunities to have the instrument evaluated by accomplished mandolinists. I took the Barnes the national convention of the Mandolin Society of America in 1998, where it elicited favorable comments from Butch Baldassari and Tony Williamson. Mandolin teacher and recording artist Tom Espinola, my son's mandolin teacher decades ago, characterized its tone as "silky." In 2007, Orrin Star picked on it and said it sounded like a "mature" instrument. The instrument comes with a deluxe Calton case, in blue. When I was updating my insurance coverage in 2009, I queried Ronnie, who sent me a handwritten letter dated Sept. 8, 2009, stating "the replacement cost of your mandolin would be $6,500." My 2021 price: REDUCED 6-15-22 to $5,200 (from $6,500), plus actual shipping costs. I will give any cash offer a respectful consideration, although I may not respond immediately. No trade offers, please.       
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Douglas51 Last edited by douglas51; 06-15-2022 at 01:16 PM. Reason: price drop 
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