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I'm a firm believer in DUDU picking both a a teacher and as a performer. From a teacher's perspective, it is a foundation technique for playing guitar or mandolin. If you learn DUDU, then you can...

Your signature inlay on the peghead is so classy. Lovely mandolin.

Here's a picture of my good friend's LP collection. He has been buying records since he was in junior high in the late 1950s, and he doesn't get rid of anything. From the top, the first row is...

I love blonde F4s. Here is mine.

Here's an update. I spoke to Al and Aleta Murphy about this one this morning to get the straight dope. As CarlM pointed out, Monroe wrote this one in the 80s in honor of Strawberry Point, IA. Al...

Love it!

I'm happy that this thread has turned into a way to think about Kim and Jim. A few of us here in Iowa City got to know them a couple years before Jim died, and we had some fun playing lots of...

Hi all. I bought a Gibson snakehead mandolin several weeks ago, after years of wanting one. I have always liked the plain Sheraton brown A models, and I found one in great shape. The mandolin...

Gail Hester started a thread some time ago to discuss thickness and graduation differences between snakehead and paddle head Gibsons here:...

I play 80-90 gigs a year. In my experience, when someone asks me what kind of music I play or what instrument I'm playing, they are asking because they enjoyed what they heard. They what to know...

"The Copy" has to be one of my all-time favorite peghead inlays!

I like playing all sorts of music, but I really, really love small jams where you get to know someone both personally and musically. So if I had 24 hours to kill, here's how I'd like to do it.
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Steve asked about the major differences between the Brentrup F5C and the PML. I have a PML, which happened to be Hans' next-to-last F5 before his mandolin-building hiatus. The graduation/voicing...

Rolfe makes fantastic mandolins, and he is a great guy as well. He is really unique in the mandolin world in that he makes four different mandolin models with completely different voices.

I...

I started playing the fiddle a few years after starting the mandolin, and I think of fiddle as more my main instrument these days. I haven't had any formal fiddle teachers, but I have paid...