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Nov-24-2020,
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These are very helpful comments. With instruments in the top half of your price range and beyond, magnificence is in the ear of the beholder, and...
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Nov-20-2020,
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Yup. You know what you're in for when you walk in the door. Absolutely! I only went there once, twelve years ago. The selection was...
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Nov-20-2020,
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With that budget, I would suggest in normal times using part of it for a trip to Nashville for visiting Gruhn's and Carter's --- two stores that have...
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Nov-19-2020,
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The tunes on this album sound like 1.5 mandolins, because Zenkl used a variety of split tunings.
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Nov-15-2020,
10:24pm
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A banjo album that deserves wider recognition
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Agreed on both counts! He plays for expressiveness, rather than speed. I discovered that back in the goodle days when musicians could work...
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Nov-11-2020,
11:52pm
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Weber now?
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It's hard to A/B them, because the Montana Webers are all at least six years old now, so they've opened up. That said, I played a few of the Oregon...
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Nov-10-2020,
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Nov-10-2020,
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I use something like this: ...
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Oct-28-2020,
9:16pm
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New Eastwood Series
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Prices are pretty cheap. Yeah, that strap button placement makes me nervous. It’s along the lines of pulling out a capo for your mando. ...
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As it turns out, I was 19 minutes late and still was early for the event. Also, I couldn't really watch it, so I listened to it first, then watched...
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Oct-26-2020,
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I got to see him with as the young'un with Pete Seeger, as the bandleader with Shenandoah, and as the patriarch with his family band. He was great...
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Oct-26-2020,
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The good news is that the quality of the audio and the video were really good. I watched the class on a MacBook Pro without earbuds/headphones. ...
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