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Thanks, Tim. The forum looks quite different on my iPad compared with my laptop, with a lot of the features such as advanced settings no longer there, as far as I can see anyway.

Pretty cool...

With the number of views, I suspect this hasn’t been posted on the Café forum before, with Mike Marshall playing a Berg 10 string mandocello:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZWwrL-2uS8

BTW I no...

Rudy’s Music in NYC currently has an unbelievable 10 Monteleone instruments currently in their inventory, including a 2021 Mandocello and a very sweet looking 1979 mini 12 string guitar. Astronomical...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPDHphVysuU

Sarah is *the* most prominent player of guitar bodied octave mandolins in the world today!

Pete

The trio I play in, The Webley Twizzle Project, played a one hour concert yesterday, Feb 11th 2024, for the WTJU Charlottesville Folk Fundraising Marathon:

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Here’s another recent one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1OpA1HaPE0
He deserves to go far!

Pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9PAPzXdmvM

Latest video from Ian Coury on 10 string Brazilian bandolim, recently recorded with his quartet at Berklee College of Music. I hope this gets him a...

This mandolin is currently on display at the ‘Acoustic America’ exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix AZ. I was lucky enough to visit that museum over the holidays.
Here are some...

Over the holidays, I had the fun experience of visiting the special ‘Acoustic America’ exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. In case you missed it, the exhibition features...

You never know what you'll find in an antique store…I was in an antique store in NC a number of years ago, and in the back of the store there was a cheapo mandolin in a case on a table. I looked in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqwpIKRGJQ
Here’s a video of my buddy Bruce Carveth on English Concertina and me on my Northfield Octave Mandolin playing ‘Monkey on a dog cart’ on the downtown mall...

Chatham County Line is playing at the Southern in Charlottesville friday 9/22. You can find other stuff local to Charlottesville on the WTJU calendar here :...

I searched Mandolin Cafe for mention of Greek bouzouki player Michael Paouris, but couldn’t find any. So…be prepared to pick your jaw off the floor!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lANt9eeS6VM
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WTJU Charlottesville broadcast a Mando Mafia concert recording last night(July 22nd) worthy of a listen. In 2003, the band won the non-traditional band competition for the second time at West...

Those round heads are wooden balls I previously used to exercise my fingers/hands for physical therapy. Practically everything I’ve used so far was stuff I already had, except for superglue and the...

I’m on a roll here. I’ve added a fiddler limberjack to the crew. The tune is one of my originals, ‘Pierrot’, performed by the whole Webley Twizzle Project band.


https://youtu.be/43xTzsg5A2w
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Haha, thanks, Charles! Working on a fiddler limberjack right now…
These guys might be at Clifftop and Rockbridge later this summer.

Pete

My buddy Bruce and I have been busking for various causes over the last year or so at a local farmers’ market, particularly for humanitarian relief for Ukraine and for the UNHCR. We recently added...

Heads up folks, Old time fiddler Jim Childress has a new cd out of original fiddle music called ‘Fly Away’ , his third album of self penned tunes. The cd features his band Uncle Henry’s Favorites,...

Oh, and Chris was playing a very nice looking Flatiron octave mandolin as well as the Smart mandola.
Pete

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I had seen a Girouard 10 string mandolin at The Music Emporium and had encouraged Brazilian bandolim player Ian Coury to go check it out as he’s just down the road at Berklee. While he was there, he...

https://youtu.be/SZlT_5G2pK0?t=2818

‘Rye Straw’(or ‘Joke on the Puppy’) with the New Lost City Ramblers on Pete’s ‘Rainbow Quest’ TV show….mandolin piece starts at 46.58.

Can anyone identify...

Ethan Setiawan has been playing one recently.

There’s also this previous thread about Monte players:

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/140537-Monteleone-Mandolins

Pete

Very nice job, John!

Pete
PS a propos quote there from Eric Morecambe….takes me back to all those Morecambe and Wise Christmas specials!