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    Re: At what point do I admit I'm a mandolinist?

    A lot of people have gone from guitar to mandolin. I am one of them although I still play guitar a bit. You can admit you are a mandolinist the moment you find out you'll know, usually there will be...
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    Re: Itzhak Pealman And John Denver Playing Bluegrass

    It definitely looks like a 70's Gibson F5 and it has 'The Gibson' tailpiece.
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    Re: New Wiens Mandolin Website

    Not that I know of, I think he is more of a soloist and into Irish/Old Time music. Here is one of another player testing it out and he has a few more solo videos on his YouTube channel... ...
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    Re: New Wiens Mandolin Website

    Dan's got one,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZLzfsTvwI, Sean had one,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBnXCtv5PF8,
    Gryphon had one,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqOEKkbueyI.
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    Re: Very good Girouard Talon review clip

    It's nice but I think I'll wait for the 'Atlantica' to come out...
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    Re: Care and feeding of your instruments?

    Bring me your unwanted gluten, I'm still calling it food...
  7. Re: somebody please buy this, remove the temptation

    It'll be in the classifieds next week with a speed neck for $1300...
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    Re: Online Store recommendation

    Well sorry but I didn't know where to start in helping 'Coffee Guy' find 'Gear'.
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    Re: how long should i practice?

    Until you get what you're after, usually comfort then proficiency.
  10. Re: life changes; one door closes, another opens/hits you in the

    Maybe this would work for you? http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?117781-Macica-Workshop-New-Fall-2015-Instrument-Making-Classes.
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    Re: Collings MT2V: the good, the bad, and the ugly

    I'd put some Tung Oil on it to protect the wood. It's easy to make a slick satin gloss with it and it will make the wood grain more visually appealing.
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    Re: I guess I'm a mandolin player

    Simply not true,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUj2I1-lsrM.
  13. Re: Charlie Derrington's 1970s Danny Ferrington F5 Mandolin

    Great story and mandolin. I though Sim Daley had moved out of the country...
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    Re: Buckeye Brand Mandolin

    Myron 'Pete' Hart of the Hart Brothers band builds them. He lives near Athens, Ohio and builds a few a year. They are highly regarded and have great tone usually with Englemann tops on the earlier...
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    Re: Lyon & Healy A style "Professional" No. 754

    It's one of the best Lyon and Healy(Washburn) mandolins of old, A later example long scale asymmetrical style A with the scroll headstock, wider arched fretboard and leg rest. It has the original...
  16. Re: another very cool Sierra Hull video-After you've gone

    They totally butchered that song. Who taught who? You don't go to northern California to learn about southern roots music...they have plenty of that there already...if anything it should be the other...
  17. Re: Next mandolin: high end import or low end domestic

    I said the Kentucky. I believe it was 'Almeria Strings' that wrote about it and he has both types (2 KM-1000's, not a KM-950) but I would imagine comparisons would vary some anyways. I haven't...
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    Re: Gibson changing its course

    That's right! Until they implement the next phase of their plan... Total Recall!
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    Re: Pre-war - My new favorite over-used term

    What about 'post modern'?
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    Re: Information on Lyon and Healy style A, scroll

    Beautiful mandolin, rare and clean example...now back to it's rightful place in the closet...
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    Re: Need Info On This Gibson

    I'd still talk to a good luthier first but I would value it at $500-$625. If it were pristine $1000-$1100. I would probably offer $500. He is the one who found it for them, it has been totally...
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    Re: Sierra Hull's Gibson

    Sierras MM is an endorsement instrument. They make nice mandolins or as many professionals would not play them as much independently or endorsed. Of course it doesn't hurt if they want to give you...
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    Re: Gibson Trademarking the F-5 Body Shape??

    That or a sign of desperation, lack of comprehensive knowledge, originality, a mockery, etc. People don't often like to admit it but we are like sponges for information, environmental factors, etc....
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    Re: Girouard mandola en route from RI to VA

    understated beauty, congrats!
  25. Re: Inherited Gibson A-style, Thoughts from the experts?

    I think it's a 30's A-50, it has a wider body vs. most A-50's...
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