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Me being a vintage type kind of buyer-I just love old builds/wood. I'd buy an old original Stradolin or Harmony Biltmore or regal or something of the like for pry the same amount of cash and use that...

The G9320 was my first mandolin also. I couldn't get rid of it fast enough, and I did regret buying it as my first. Hard to play, buzzy, even after I had a local luthier look it over and adjust a...

That method precedes me by decades probably :)

The Gretsch is pretty much a straight out copy of a 60's-70's Harmony. Harmony made the New Yorker's this one was based on. Somewhere here I actually posted an early New Yorker with it's Harmony...

I'll bite... The more desperately it needs new strings the longer it stays in tune.

Not where I thought this thread was going...:grin:

Len B.
Clearwater, FL

I've seen this story mentioned on several news sites, and only some of them have mentioned the "rest of the story". She bought the cheapest ticket they offer, which specifically says that it does...

Apparently Potrer Wagoner once told Dolly Parton that "If you look like a member of the audience, maybe that's where you should be." Although I don't buy that idea completely (I would look pretty...

Texas Country Thing. Consider it part of the Cowboy uniform. These days a lot of folks do it for asthetics but when I was growing up in cow town East Texas it was for practical purposes. Spend all...

THE DEATH OF THE HAT
by Billy Collins
Once every man wore a hat.
In the ashen newsreels,
the avenues of cities
are broad rivers flowing with hats.
The ballparks swelled
with thousands of...

I wear a white linen wide brim fedora, mainly to embarrass my teen daughter.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/02/us/monterey-journal-trees-and-trademarks-the-disputes-run-deep.html

This reminds me of the Lone Cypress tree on 17 Mile Drive in Carmel (see link). Back in 1989,...

We could help by writing some themed descriptions of the items for sale:


Enjoy a crisp Chardonnay on the newly remodeled front porch,
Late in the evening, about sundown, high on the hill and...

Jim Clare and I doing his song Smoke From a Hawthorn Fire at last year's Springwater Music Festival --final one, unfortunately.

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Red hats were the "uniform" for the Springwater...

Was that the original air conditioning unit that Uncle Pen used? It looks like it's in pretty good shape.

:disbelief: A reunion? Jist fancy that! A' aroond the werld! :):)

If you ever look at the neck on a fiddle you've seen a speed neck. I really dislike the feel of a glossy finish on the neck of any instrument. Note that it's not necessary to sand off all the color...

You can view the page at https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/content.php?373-Bill-Monroe-Interview-in-Denver-Feb-19-1986
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It's not the hat, it's the shirt and TIE!? Mr. Bill would think that that made the "right sort" of fellow, indeed. Now, I see more and more guys onstage in t-shirts and shorts, not me you understand...

I think I remember that scene - in the next scene, the ape learns to play the bodhran with a bone.

My contribution is from the year 2014:

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Utah Phillips: "Men should wear hats. Baseball hats worn backwards and sideways do not constitute hat wearing or any fashion statement. If you don't have a Stetson then a Borsalino fedora will do." ...

A rigid brimmed cowboy topper is better than a snake rattle and a tone guard and an armrest put together at improving the tone of a mandolin - by deflecting sound into the player's ears.

Three browsers? So I suppose that would be a hat trick.

You know how hard it is to resist sunny day back-baiting --

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Oh billkilpatrick!
You didn't invoke the "I ain't ever..." clause, did you?

Every time I've done that it ain't long before I went and did it.

It won't be long before winter. A pile of shavings...