About - Trillium Octave Mandolins

Bob Abrams
Bob Abrams

Bob Abrams has spent (some might say "frittered away") his life building and playing musical instruments. Apprenticed to a banjo maker while still a teenager in St. Louis, Missouri, he now makes mandolins, Irish bouzoukis and octave mandolins under the name Trillium® Octave Mandolins at his shop in Nottingham, New Hampshire. His instrument building experience includes a 7 year stint with the George Bozeman Pipe Organ Co. in Deerfield, New Hampshire. During that period, he participated in the construction and installation of 14 tracker action pipe organs for churches up and down the East Coast. He was a crafts demonstrator at the National Folk Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Bob has been involved with American and Irish traditional music for more than 40 years, learning to play a variety of instruments, including diatonic button accordion, mandolin, guitar, fiddle and banjo. For several years, he had a weekly radio show in St. Louis and he headed up an ensemble for Young Audiences, Inc., presenting 600 school concerts over a 7 year period. Bob has recorded two well received CDs of traditional Irish music, "A Fool's Advice" in 1999 and "The Spider's Web" in 2003.