T-shirt: NMM Mandolin Patent Shirt Size:XS “Early Days” peers into the

“Early Days” peers into the past with some of the earliest electric stringed instruments on the market

rare NMM archival images

and shove coupler

Recorded by Edward Parmentier on the Museum's harpsichord by Jacques Germain

T-shirt: NMM Mandolin Patent Shirt Size:XS “Early Days” peers into theExclusive National Music Museum patent design t shirt! Reproduced from patent documents in the archives of the National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota, which correspond to musical instruments in the Museums collections. The invention of great style! District Perfect Tri Tee 50 25 25 poly ring spun combed cotton rayon Gray frost Patent for the Mandolin, Style A, 1896, by Orville Gibson, Kalamazoo, Michigan In 1898, Orville Gibson was awarded a