High-End, Pre-owned Mandolins and Other Acoustic Instruments

MandoMutt.com is an online musical instrument shop specializing in “high-end” and small builder acoustic instruments and is owned and operated by Kevin D. Douglas. Mandomutt.com was born in August, 2008

A Little About Me, Kevin

I’ve been on this wonderful planet for over half a century and as far back as I can remember, I’ve always loved music, musicians and the instruments they play.  I grew up loving rock & roll music, but as an adult I started expanding my musical horizon’s, so to speak.  I became interested in the Blues, Cajun and Zydeco, Country & Western, Swing and eventually Bluegrass music. At some point in my early thirties, Bluegrass became my favorite music.  I really love the tight harmonies (particularly in Gospel Bluegrass) and the incredible acoustic instrumentals.

I began playing mandolin around 2002. I’d been playing guitar since the mid-90’s, and I’ve always loved the mandolins sound, so I made my first mandolin purchase, a poorly set-up Chinese built instrument. It was difficult to play and didn’t sound so great, but I stuck with it and quickly became infected with M.A.S., which is an incurable disease and addiction.  In 2008, I hired the m.e.designlab to create and build a website for my instrument sales, we were up and running full time in cyber space. I’ve always loved the dogs I’ve owned and, during the design phase, Matt asked what I wanted to name the new website and I knew without a doubt that I’d call it MandoMutt.com and we added my oldest (at the time) dog to the website banner and have always incorporated photos and such to the site home page. The rest is (mandolin) history!