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Great idea HarrisonMando and a wonderful performance and great sound from your octave.

Here's the most recent video I have of my Old Wave octave. It's a tune I recorded for the SAW group here on...

I played an Old Wave at Carter's when I was on the hunt for an upgrade many years ago. If I had had the money, I would've bought that mando, without a doubt; but it was way outside my budget. Bill...

Old Wave is the brand name that the late Bill Bussmann put on the instruments he built.

http://www.oldwavemandolins.com/

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=old+wave+mandoin

Nice playing and a lovely tribute.
Bill

At the Goldendale Pickers Festival last month there was a player who had one of those and I was thoroughly impressed by it. That thing sang and was clear as a bell and surprisingly loud, given its...

Way back in the Plasticine Era, 1979 when I was a young fella, I spent five weeks in Elkins WV taking a luthiery course at Augusta, taught mainly by Paul Reisler. In that length of time our group of...

That is one great looking and sounding mandolin. I'll have to look for "Homer the Roamer". Very nicely played btw. Thank you!!

Len B.
Clearwater, FL

My friends in Ohio are good friends with Doug who I believe is still around doing art and playing music and maybe even building instruments. I have seen a few of his instruments on sale IIRC at...

What a fine mandolin! I love it! :mandosmiley:

Congrats and beautiful looks and tone on that mando. Fine picking on Homer the Roamer too. Enjoy!

I'd say that would be a happy coincidence then.

I believe that mandolin, if it is the same one, belonged to a friend of mine who passed away a few years back. He was a very famous landscape painter, originally from Gloucester, Mass....who later...

for me Pete is right up there with the great mandolin players of the era - Grisman, Bush, Mike Marshall, Evan Marshall, Andy Statman, Mike Compton, Radim Zenkle, Tim Ware and so on.
very influential...

Thanks for the reminder. He was a dear friend who was proud of his heritage and at the same time a great 'American' in the sense that he maintained that everyone is worthy of respect.

The Well Worn F2 has some new finery! Me and my mando took a trip up to Jake Wildwoods yesterday to fix her up in her fancy new duds.

Hey, I think putting on the new (old) Handel tuners made her...

Morning, Y'all!

I had to share the excitement from this morning's unboxing of Maddy's brand spanking new Ratliff Mandolin. The UPS guy didn't show up until after bedtime last night so she woke up...

You can watch in via archive, I am doing that now.

Bummed I missed it! I hope your event went well :)

If you want to play maqam Middle Eastern music like an oud player, I can certainly see why you might want a fretless mandolin.

I did vaguely check into this after I had been on a course at...

Peter's mandolin playing was foundational for me when I was learning mandolin. His later soundtrack music for Ken Burns and others remains atop my listening/playing along list.

A fond...

I just took this step myself, and decided on buying a used, old fiddle.

I have a violin shop down the street, and a well known one a city over, and have inquired about starting violins. While the...

I believe he has made at least one of those guitars.

... and I am so grateful for them! Every Sunday, I have a different couple of people drop by. I cook lunch for them, we eat together, then we eventually pick on tunes. Every Sunday is different, and...

Tone.

Whatever one’s playing level, and whatever grade of mandolin one has, what are the checkpoints of technique, mechanics, etc., that help pull the best possible tone out of the instrument as...

Truly unique and I love it!