MANDOLIN TUG OF WAR APPARENTLY HEATING UP

From: Evansville Courier & Press | Date: November 2, 2002| Author: JOHN LUCAS, Courier & Press Western Kentucky bureau (270) 333-4899 or jlucas@evansville.net | Copyright information

Wrangling is continuing over ownership of Rosine native and Bluegrass legend Bill Monroe's mandolin.

The Rosine-based Bill Monroe Foundation agreed last year to buy the instrument from Monroe's son, James, for $1.125 million. But when the money was not delivered by a 10 a.m. Wednesday deadline, James Monroe said the deal of was off and he was putting the mandolin, a 1923 F-5 Gibson orchestral model, on the open market to the highest bidder.

The foundation, though, which hopes to...

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