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The place to go is Down Home Guitars in Frankfort, IL. Home of the Frankfort Bluegrass Festival and the owner of the shop (Steve) is the one who puts it on. They have your Collings and Webers mostly,...

Could we keep the "copyright infringement/fraud/counterfeit"-topic out of this thread please.

Not only professionally am I interested in the legal part of this topic. But I don´t think that this...

I had the same problem. You can wait for used J Boviers to turn up in the classifieds here - but, in a testament to the instruments, most people seem to keep them in their collection, so they don't...

A bunch of bluegrassers post Rockygrass had boarded the plane at DIA when a tornado was spotted and we were shuffled off down to the storm shelter. Tim and Sam pulled out their mandolins and...

Ok, so I made you look--I doubt if there are any mandolins out there that somebody would pay a million bucks for, but I think the playing here is worth a million.

"Million Dollar Mandolin--Duke...

The car analogy is a pretty good one.
I've never driven the high end cars you have, I had a Sunbeam Alpine that was lots of fun, had limits that became very obvious when you got close to them, but...

Gary -

Thank you for your reply.

It does and it doesn't answer my question. To explain why, I think I have to resort to two analogies, one related to wine and the other to cars.

IRL, I am...

The unfortunate reality is that the old music store business model is dead. There are a handful of shops that are still able to hold their own, but most have or are in the process of going under. ...

Help stamp out domestic violins -- get a mandolin.

How can we get "Wagon Wheel" banned? :grin:

As usual, I was searching for something else and found this article about mandolin playing in Minneapolis and St. Paul from 2001 by Amy Kreitzer in the Minnesota History Magazine.

Sweet Harmonies...

I'm going to take a step back from critiquing Monroe's music, and/or OP's take on it --

There are probably as many people on the Cafe who, while recognizing Monroe's importance in the "mandolin...

So, what SHOULD this thread be arguing about, because I'm just not getting it.

I ran across this little youtube video of the gathering of 4 of Virginia's top builders of mandolins,fiddles and guitars getting together for a little jam recording session during the fall of this...