The Violin Shoppe Donates Mandolin & Violin For Raffle

The Violin Shoppe, Inc. has generously donated two instruments for the Folk Society's annual fundraising raffle. Drawings for the winning tickets will take place on December 7th during the Folk Society's Annual Holiday Potluck in Broach Hall at St. John's Baptist Church, 300 Hawthorne Lane, in Charlotte. Ticket holders need not be present to win.

Violin Shoppe proprietors Glen Alexander and Bob Anderson have presented us with a KM-505 Kentucky Artist Deluxe A-Model Mandolin and a Handcrafted Romanian Violin from Keith, Curtis, and Clifton. The suggested retail price of the mand/olin, with hardshell case, is $595. The suggested retail price of the violin, with case and bow, is $1,195.

The Violin Shoppe is located at 2112 East Seventh Street. Folk Society members receive a ten percent discount. For detailed information about instruments, accessories, and services offered, visit www.theviolinshoppe.net. The Violin Shoppe offers traditional fiddle lessons, as well as classical violin lessons, including the Suzuki Method. Instruction for guitar, banjo, mandolin, Dobro, bass, and bodhran is also available.

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The Artist line of Kentucky mandolins has been expanded to include perhaps the best value in a professional-quality A model mandolin. Every feature of the KM-505 was specifically chosen to meet, not only the demands of the beginning player, but also the demanding requirements of working professionals. Fine solid spruce and solid flamed maples are handselected at this level to assure that every instrument looks as good as it sounds. Its features include:

Solid, hand-carved and graduated select spruce top

Solid, hand-carved select highly flamed maple back and sides

One-piece maple neck with dovetail neck/body joint at 15th fret

Nitro-cellulose finish

Radiused ebony fingerboard with Mother of Pearl dot position markers and modern extension over the body

Bound neck

Bound rosewood peghead overlay with Kentucky script and Mountain Rose inlaid in pearl

Vintage-style ebony bridge with small adjustment wheels

Traditional 2-screw truss rod

Cover plate

Bone nut

Highly polished nickel silver frets

Gold-plated tailpiece with leather insert

High-quality, goldplated Gotoh tuners with engraved plate and removable buttons

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The Romanian violin from Keith, Curtis, and Clifton is handcrafted from fifteen-year-aged tone woods and finer graduations which enable a definitive focus on beauty, as well as sound and playability. Fine even-grained spruce tops and nicely flamed maple back, sides, and neck add beauty and grace to its exceptional sound and playability. The violin is handrubbed with oil varnish and features inlaid purfling and premium German ebony fittings, accessories, and bridge. Finished with Thomastik Dominant strings, this beautiful instrument offers exceptional value. (Please note: this violin can be used to fiddle old-time music or play hot bluegrass!)

The instruments will be raffled individually. Raffle tickets for the mandolin cost $2 each (6 for $10). Raffle tickets for the violin cost $5 each (6 for $25). Drawings for the winning tickets will take place on December 7th during the Folk Society's Annual Holiday Potluck in Broach Hall at St. John's Baptist Church, 300 Hawthorne Lane, in Charlotte. Ticket holders need not be present to win.

For tax compliance reasons, raffle winners must fill out a W-9 form in order to receive their awards. Winners are responsible for all resulting income taxes, if any.