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We’ve been asked on many occasions to shoot some videos of our Sullivan Festival Banjo line, well Murrell and I finally got around to shoot some on the Festival Jam in both Mahogany and Maple, the Festival Deluxe, the Festival Custom and the Festival Pro. Hope you enjoy.

Here is the Festival Pro:

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Pete Webb with the group Late for Supper stops by and visits us on a regular basis.  He was checking out one of the new Sullivan Clawhammer Jam banjos and he picked us My Old Kentucky Home.  Thanks  Pete.

Daniel Martin stopped by for a little tune up on his Bill Sullivan Recording King model banjo.  I got him to pick one for us before he left,  burn it up son! You can check out the “Bill Sullivan Recording King” tribute banjo on firstqualitymusic.com.

Good friend and Guitar picker Matt Phelps dropped into the store today, we got him to pick us a rendition of “Home Sweet Home”.   Matt’s picking his First Quality Custom Advanced Jumbo.  You can check it out a guitar like the one Matt’s playing at First Quality Music’s website.

Our friend Curtis Burch stopped by today and we asked him to fill everyone in on the 1st Annual Newgrass Festival happening just north of Bowling Green, Ky.  You can get additional information by visiting their website.

Howdy folks.  Just wanted to give everyone a short clip of the new Gibson F-10 Mandolin.   You can check out all the details at the First Quality website.

Have you ever wanted to get a Gibson Mandolin, but wanted a little wider neck?  A little larger frets? Maybe a scooped fingerboard or a pickguard added. For our banjo playing friends maybe a Granda Flying Eagle but in a Tenor or a Plectrum or maybe a Walnut neck instead of  Curly Maple.  Now you can!  Gibson Original Instruments have opened up their Custom Shop and now you can custom spec your favorite Bluegrass Instrument.  Give us a call and let us help you build the instrument of your dreams.   Ask for Jeff or Murrell  at 800.635.2021

Hey guys, just wante to make sure everyone was aware of the last couple Fender Custom Shop pieces we still have left. Believe it or not we still have one of the original first 500 run of the David Gilmour Signature NOS Strat’s! This is quite a hot guitar and a rare bird as well. For all info on this instrument check out the ultra slick micro-site : http://www.fender.com/gilmour/home.php

We also have a one-off, completely custom designed from the ground up Strat! This was an idea we got off the ground last year, jumping on board with Fender Custom Shop’s TeamBuilt guitars. This is definitely a guitar all it’s own! It started off with ’56 Strat specs and then the tweaking began. From the 9.5 radius and 6150 fret wire to the DiMarzio Area 58 and Virtual Solo pickups, this is quite a different strat. Check out the pics on our website to get a glimpse of the teal green metallic finish and pearl white pickguard.

Any questions, or to get full specs on the custom, feel free to give me a call @ 1-800-601-1225 

Cliff and his friend Alan Tompkins were visiting family in Southern Kentucky and drove up to hang out at the store for a visit.   Cliff took a moment to check out the Martin 000-18 Authentic in the Vault and I talked him into sitting down and pickin’ a tune with me.  You can check out Cliff’s banjos at his website.

This is me, Cliff, and Alan picking the Fire Ball Mail. 

Tim Finch and the Eastman Road Show arrives a day early to get everything set up for the First Quality Music / Eastman event.  This is sure to be one heck of an event. We thought Tim was only bringing 50 instruments but he showed up with 85! Tim has brought with him an array of instruments that he takes to shows.  We cannot post our sale pricing on our website but will have the inventory listed on firstqualitymusic.com and you can call for the details.

For those that can’t make it to our store on Saturday be sure to check out our website to see the full product list that will be available during our Eastman Day sales event!  Sales prices will be available by phone for one-day only. First come first serve, make sure and call early to get our one-day prices before they are all gone becaue  at 5:00 pm they head off to the next show.   Phones open up at 10:00 a.m.   800.635.2021