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  1. Re: Thile and Clay Hess Hotel Jamming Video from 2000 IBMA

    The poor guy is a lightning rod for criticism. The bluegrass purists hated his "shredding", now some folks wish he would play MORE notes. And now Nickel Creek isn't Nickel Creek enough? Sometimes,...
  2. Re: bluegrass listening to understand and learn the mandolin

    The Skaggs/Rice album is essential. The songs aren't hard driving bluegrass so it may be easier to attempt to play along.
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    Re: Random mandolin sightings

    Watching Rhapsody in Blue. The Gershwin biopic. Just saw someone playing what appeared to be a Lyon and Healy during"Somebody Loves Me". At the end of the solo he just slid it across the floor!!...
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    Re: What's in your case?

    A receipt from the original owner's purchase from Elderly, a Big Boy keychain they left there and a penny matching the year of manufacture. And the usual, needle nose pliers, picks, humidifier....
  5. Re: Just for fun and interest - favourite acoustic tones

    It's so seldom Lee Rocker and Edgar Meyer show up in the same sentence.
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    Re: If You Don't Perform In Public....

    I much prefer the company of a fine mandolin over the public.
  7. Re: Played a Loar F5 for the first time and met Mike Compton

    Now sign up for this year's Monroe Mandolin Camp and get a one on one lesson. You won't regret it. September is right around the corner!
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    Re: Flamekeeper Documentary on Amazon!

    Thank you so much for this. What a great way to spend a Sunday morning.
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    Re: Eastman MD-315 for Christmas! Woohoo!

    You were right to post it here. Few people at work want to hear us ramble on about a Christmas present. Forum readers are just as excited as you are for a new mandolin story. Great wife, great...
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    Re: Recommendations for 2019?

    The Monroe Mandolin Camp! Beautiful setting, great instructors.
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    Re: When Did You First Realize . . .

    It's just like golf, hundreds of bad shots surrounding a few good ones. But I keep coming back remembering the few times I get it right.
  12. Re: Other primitive, raw mandolin music like early Bill Monroe?

    Don't want to hijack this thread, but maybe an ancillary one to this might be: How do you learn to PLAY raw earthy mandolin in the tradition of early Monroe and those cited above?

    Well,...
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    Re: Instruments, Cost & the Placebo Effect

    Visited Carter's in September and played an Old Wave oval. While mandolins never "speak" to me I'm fairly certain it mumbled something, and I continued to visit their site and stare at all seven...
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    Re: Monroe Mandolin Camp, 1st time.

    Okay...
    Skip Gorman again on Saturday morning. 75 minutes focusing on "Watson's Blues". Had never played with a recording, always played it in D. Most of you probably know it's in E. Thursday's...
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    Re: Monroe Mandolin Camp, 1st time.

    Really? This could take some time.
    Arrived Wednesday and even for the navigationally challenged very easy to find. Less than two miles from 65. The Scarritt Bennett Center is a beautiful, small...
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    Re: Monroe Mandolin Camp, 1st time.

    What a great time. So many unforgettable moments. Glen Duncan's Monroe memories, THE Paul Duff working on MY mandolin, all the instructors especially Mark Royal, and not an aloof person in the bunch....
  17. Thread: Danilo Brito

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    Danilo Brito

    If you're in NE OH or SE MI Sunday, Brito will be performing at the Toledo Museum of Art at 3PM. Never would of heard of him if not for Mandolin Cafe's MP3 library. Thanks Cafe!
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    Re: Dream, Dream, Dream...so what's your list?

    A Cohen C# model and an Old Wave oval. These deserve to be played but I could be happy entering a room and just seeing both of these two on display.

    No, I'd have to play them.
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    Re: Purpose for our menageries?

    I keep my Antoniotsai double neck to remind me not to drink before looking at Ebay.
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    Re: Monroe Mandolin Camp, 1st time.

    Birthday gift from my wife. She means well. I'll be fine. Maybe this will be such an eye opener I might change musical direction. Or I find out I love to leave my dogs and family room and venture...
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    Re: Bad years for Gibson?

    Wasn't completely satisfied with the purchase, but after 15 minutes and $15 at our local music store the other day...what a difference. Playability, tone, tuning all so much better.
    Yes, just a few...
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    Re: Bad years for Gibson?

    Time has passed, I'm 58, born in '58 and just had a '58 F-12 delivered today. Too bad I'm still at work.
    God love my wife. Fed Ex gently knocked, left a note and drove away. She hopped in the car...
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