Japanese Blue Bell Mandolin
17 June 2010
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A Japanese reader, Makoto, has written in with pictures of his Blue Bell mandolin, model F-8 with serial number B788035. The Blue Bell brand was used by Ibanez for products released in the Japanese domestic market. Makoto’s mandolin is nearly identical to an Ibanez 523 model – the label is signed by Kosakabe, the Ibanez master builder, and features a serial number identical to the Ibanez format. Blue Bell mandolins are quite rare and said to be of very high quality.
UPDATE – Makoto has supplied a photo of the serial number showing it is stamped into the headstock the same way that Ibanez does.
For more info on this mandolin, click here.
To hear some of Makoto’s music, click here.
Hi there, great site!
Here is a clip of a friend of mine – Ingeborg Schultze from the Netherlands – playing her old no number Ibanez 523. I have found the Ibanez banjo and mandolin folder i promised you, I have it double and you can have it if you send me a postal address by mail to send it to.
best wishes from Brussels
Dennis Schut
626 as payed by my son ralph in the clip featured on your website
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKGSNAHsRIk here is the link I tried to send…. sorry
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