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 Bill Bussmann, Luthier, Old Wave, M.F., U.L.C., U.R.B., D.D.T., B.S., E.T.C .  |
Each Old Wave mandolin is meticulously handcrafted
by Bill Bussmann. Bill "altered" his first Kay guitar in 1964, strung up
his first mandolin in 1990, and apprenticed with master fiddlemaker R.L.
Crawford during 1992-1993.
He has strung up more than 340 instruments so far, including a dulcimer,
archtop guitars, steelstring guitars, electric upright basses, electric
basses, mandolins, mandolas, and octave mandolins.
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| Mel Bay's mandosessions online magazine features an
interview with Bill Bussmann in the August 2004 issue www.mandosessions.com/aug04/interview.html |
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Old Wave mandolins are built at the Bussmanns' quiet farm along the Animas Creek in remote Caballo, New Mexico. Bill and his wife Sue have lived there for 28 years in a house they built themselves from adobe bricks and river rock. The workshop is a small solar adobe building that Bill built near the house.
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