These are treasures, thanks James! Hope Sam gets well and strong again.
These are treasures, thanks James! Hope Sam gets well and strong again.
Mississippi Sawyer
Chop no part of music? Why that is pure heresy.
Just came across this today:
Tony Rice Interview April 9/2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BY3hJBgS1U
Hi Folks, I got to speak with Tim O'Brien a couple of weeks ago on behalf of the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Music Association, and it's now up on our website:
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Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Norman Blake
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Picked up
My "new" Stradolin - have fallen in love with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOluEX6fakk
Close: http://www.mandolinarchive.com/gibson/serial/50209
Kool!!!! Hopefully toomario I can get a pic of my Boat Paddle Mandolin my wife bought for me from your store. This is it’s 3rd trip to Florida with us on vacation. We are on the gulf side on St....
Whatever that bar is, it looks like they attach some sort of strap to the tail end, and it almost looks like the other end might be attached to the neck pickup? Some sort of dual purpose grounding...
There is nothing better than finally landing one of those instruments that you 'have always wanted'.
Congratulations and ENJOY!
Welcome to the club! Strad-o-lins come with a lot of mojo.
It's nice you were able to find what you had been looking for - congratulations!
Bluegrass musicians use the tune to show off their musicianship. Old Time musicians use their musicianship to show off the tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9EBtU55peI It's good for ragtime music.
Before Loar came up with the idea, Shutt had already built mandolins with ff holes and an elevated fingerboard. The evolution would have happened in a different way, but it would have happened.
...Literally.
This is a cool video anyway, but thought it was worth sharing as it's shot from a rare angle of below, out front, peghead-side. I learned a bit from watching The Man from this...
Well, it's not a competition and you're on a mandolin site, so......
The people that built those Loar signed F5's built the rest of the mandolins being sold by Gibson.
How cool is that, Mr. Grisman called you Friend.
Its a mute lute.
Holy !!!! The sales tax alone on that is over $15,000! If I had $180k cash to spend, I'd retire and I would buy the best sounding Dudenbostel, Nugget, Gilchrist, etc, that I could find for $25k or...
Look for a (labeled) American Conservatory mandolin. They were Lyon and Healy's second line after the Washburns, but often equal or surpass them in quality of materials and craft. Washburns and AC...
Can you post something on Craigslist, "to the recent buyer of my (such and such) mandolin" and tell them the story? Might be worth a try.
Photos were uploading. They are now up