Details
Our best-selling Northfield mandolin hands down, and chances are after just a few minutes of playing this one you'll hear why. It has the traditional 2-bar bracing under the carved Adirondack spruce top, and delivers single-note sparkle and chord-chop rhythm with authority. Thanks to the very slightly enlarged body (compared to a traditional F-5) the player can get fat, bubbling volume with little effort and there's plenty of headroom so it never sounds like you're bashing it.
The name of this model comes from Bill Monroe's tune of the same name which was the first song on his "Bluegrass Instrumentals" LP recorded in the late 1950s, an album widely credited with upping the game for bluegrass pickers who followed.
Specs
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Back sides
Maple
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Binding
Ivoroid
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Bracing
2-Bar
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Bridge
Ebony
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Fingerboard
Ebony
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Finish
Hybrid Varnish
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Frets to body
14
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Make
Northfield Mandolins
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Model
NFB-F5E Big Mon
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Neck material
Maple
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Nut width
1 1/8"
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Scale length
14"
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Top material
Adirondack Red Spruce
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Total frets
20
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Tuners
Gotoh
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Case bag color
Grey
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Case type
Airloom "Recurve"
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Serial number
B220422
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SKU
NORNFBF5A-B220422
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UPC
111055
