Oscar Schmidt OM10 Mandolin

by Oscar Schmidt

Product Features

• A-style mandolin with select spruce top and mahogany back/sides
• Mahogany neck with 20-fret rosewood fingerboard
• Rosewood adjustable bridge
• Chrome die-cast tuning machines
• Lifetime warranty
• Mahogany back and sides
• Select spruce top
• Rosewood fingerboard and bridge
• Adjustable bridge

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0007OWAQG
• Item model number: OM10
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,088 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
  • #10 in Musical Instruments > Folk & World Instruments > Stringed Instruments > Mandolins

Product Description

Bluegrass musicians have always played Oscar Schmidt mandolins, resonators and banjos, and continue to do so today. This A-style mandolin features a select spruce top, mahogany back/sides, a mahogany neck with 20-fret rosewood fingerboard, and is a solid choice for new and lifetime players alike.

OM10 Mandolin Features Mandolin Style: A Top: Select Spruce Back/Sides: Mahogany Binding: White Neck: Mahogany Fretboard: Rosewood Frets: 20 Bridge: Rosewood Finish: Natural Gloss Tuners: Chrome

A Quality, Handcrafted Instrument
This A-style mandolin features a select spruce top, and mahogany sides/back, framed in a white binding. The mahogany neck sports a 20-fret rosewood fingerboard, and a rosewood bridge and chrome tuning machines make sure your tuning remains solid no matter how hot the strumming gets.

Oscar Schmidt instruments feature a lifetime warranty, and each ukulele is inspected and adjusted in the USA by a skilled technician--your assurance for smooth fret ends, precision low action and resonant sound quality.

About Oscar Schmidt Musical Instruments
The Oscar Schmidt Company was founded in 1871 and incorporated in 1911. By the early 1900s, the company had five factories in Europe and a factory on Ferry Street in Jersey City. They made all kinds of stringed instruments, guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, zithers, and Autoharps.

The company prospered through the early 1920s. Oscar Schmidt instruments were sold in many rural parts of the country where no music stores existed. Salesmen distributed the products far and wide, making them available in general, small town furniture and dry goods stores. Country guitar pickers and blues musicians living in areas of the South and in Appalachia, far from the city, frequently played Oscar Schmidt instruments because they were both inexpensive and available locally. But equally important, they were often chosen solely on merits of their superior tone and volume.

Today at Oscar Schmidt, premium woods, quality hardware and modest prices create an ideal instrument. Each is inspected and adjusted in the USA by a skilled technician, your assurance for smooth fret ends, precision low action and resonant sound quality. Unequalled standards in easy playing comfort and tone response creates the perfect value... Oscar Schmidt.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quality, September 9, 2007

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D. Wright "Factotum" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oscar Schmidt OM10 Mandolin (Electronics)

A wonderful instrument, whatever the price. No problems with the strings that came with it (they just needed a little tuning), the action, the bridge, anything. I would highly recommend this mandolin for beginners.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quality instrument for beginners., April 16, 2009

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Michael Sneed "Mike" (Massanutten, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oscar Schmidt OM10 Mandolin (Electronics)

This is a great entry level mandolin. I have played the guitar for a few years, but this is my first try at the mandolin. It is fun to play and to me it has a good sound. I am like most beginners...I didn't want to pay a fortune for an instrument to learn on. This is a quality instrument at a reasonable price.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mandolin - Oscar Schmidt, January 29, 2009

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K. Sconza - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oscar Schmidt OM10 Mandolin (Electronics)

Instrument arrived within 4 days of placing the order using standard shipping(even with a shipment delay notification). Instrument is very nice and arrived exactly as advertised. The only negative issue was that the bridge was not installed and there were no instructions on the proper way to do so. However, by looking at the picture on the web site, I was able to install within a few minutes.