Edit MandolinDetails: SRT FT-5 9

SRT #9 is the primary stage and studio mandolin of {{m|Justin Myles Holmes}}. It appears on Holmes' second album-length bluegrass record, [[4masks]], and has appeared at his stage shows in the USA, Europe, and Tuva. It has also been played on stage by {{m|Jake Stargel}}, {{m|Jakub Vysoky}}, and {{m|Kyle Bestape}}. It was purchased by Holmes new, directly from luthier [[Steven Thomas]] at the [[Seman Violins]] booth at [[IBMA]] 2023. SRT #9 was made at the Seman Violins workshop in Skokie, IL in 2023, and modified soon after purchase by [[Seven C Music]] to incorporate the K&K Twin Fusion electronics. ===Russian Security Encounter=== * ''Main Story'': [[User:JMyles/Through Russian Passport Control With A Song]]'' In 2025, Holmes traveled to [[wikipedia:Tuva|Tuva]] to participate in a Tuvan Throatsinging Masterclass. While transiting the border from Mongolia to Russia, he was interrogated for several hours by Russian security, and subsequently Russian customs. According to Holmes, customs agents took dozens of photographs of SRT #9 and asked questions about it, using a translation app, for about two hours. He says he was asked to prove its date of manufacture and purchase, its materials, the modification to add electronics, and to prove that he was capable of playing it. He was given a form, with a few red Russian stamped seals, and says he was told that the mandolin had been approved for entry, but to keep the form with it at all times. <gallery perrow=4> File:Tuva jam, Radik Tülüsh, Justin Myles Holmes, and others.jpg|Holmes holding SRT#9 while playing a tin whistle at a jam in rural [[wikipedia:Tuva|Tuva]]. File:PXL 20250731 021815298.jpg.jpg|The front of a Russian security form, given to Holmes to keep with SRT #9 during his travels in Tuva. File:PXL 20250731 021820168.jpg| File:Breckenridge Bluegrass House Party 2025.jpg|{{m|Jake Stargel}} (left) plays SRT #9 at a house party in Breckenridge, Colorado in 2025. File:Justin Holmes and The Immutable Strings Band at GFEL Boulder 2025.jpg|Kyle Bestape (second from left) plays SRT#9 at GFEL 2025 </gallery>

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