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    Re: Bluegrass blues instrumentals?

    (Ain't no use barkin', got the)
    Doghouse Blues
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    Re: Gibson's 1923 F-5 Master Model Reissue

    Too red.....
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    Re: Happy Birthday Doc Watson

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBwPijCyy-4
  4. Re: upgrading Schaller tuners to Waverly's - need to change bushi

    Beware of the word "just", as in "I just knocked a big chunk of finish off the front of my mandolin's peghead." Unless you have had some experience I would just leave them where they are. if you do...
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    Re: Uncle Don Brown's Loar

    C.J. Lewandowski doin' it right with his McClanahan (and the Po' Ramblin Boys)


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43woa_z9nw
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    Uncle Don Brown's Loar

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ee3X2-AXW4
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    Re: Vintage Gibson Fretboard

    It is not a small amount being discussed;
    Here is what was on Loar #1 compared to an accurately cut fretboard:

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    Re: Bluegrass Alliance 1971

    Hylo Brown's 1948 'Bone

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  9. Re: Non-mando: how well does Spotify or Pandora pay off for artis

    Everything is free now
    That's what they say
    Everything I ever done
    Gonna give it away
    Someone hit the big score
    They figured it out
    That we're gonna do it anyway
    Even if it doesn't pay.....
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    Re: Tremolo...Which player...

    Glen Duncan says that Bill's right hand employed pure Classical Technique (but not that he "got" it from there)
    There are numerous examples of Monroe's Tremolo on the Bluebird Recordings and "Master...
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    Re: Virziectomy Major Surgery?

    If it was "Only" De-Virzified via the tail-pin hole, then the tone bars will have bites out both of them where the Virzi's feet used to be attached.
    If the tone bars are "Whole" then they have been...
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    Re: What’s Happening At Gibsin?

    It is always to be remembered that the Grail Instruments were all made in a factory. The Loar fretboards were miscut. No one cared much about them when they were released, at least the F-5 and the...
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    Re: Norman Blake's mandocello?

    Tons, but a K-Style Mandocello is a rare enough bird that he might have only had the one...
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    Re: Norman Blake's mandocello?

    #76986's peg-head in the Archive is the same instrument in question here that Scott zoomed up.
    As Bob said, not direct provenance, but very possibly Blake's old 'Cello.
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    Re: Norman Blake's mandocello?

    Zoom in and look at the white scuff on the right side lobe of the peg-head in both pictures.
    The orientation of the Script and slight tilt to the right of the Flowerpot looks identical
  16. Re: Sierra Hull Band Opening for Lyle Lovett Tonight

    LL's Large Band was one of the best shows I have ever seen....
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    Re: Norman Blake's mandocello?

    Even the chance that it is, is amazing;
    It could even be the one that he played "Poor Ellen Smith" on from "Directions" (His Masterpiece)
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    Re: Another Man Done Gone

    Robbie Rob & Sixto R;

    “People used to say to me, ‘You’re just a dreamer. You’re gonna end up working down the street, just like me.’
    Part of that was crushing, and the other part is, ‘Oh yeah?...
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    Re: Ibanez Model 524 (1978)

    Randy Hill is a great Canadian Bluegrass mandolin player;
    He used to play an Ibanez until he got one of the first Apitius mandolins ever.
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    Re: Robert Crumb on Mandolin

    When he moved to France, he was playing electric mandolin in a Musette Group.
    Anyone interested in him needs to watch "Crumb";
    That was the first time I heard Geeshie’s “Last Kind Words Blues"
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    Re: Rest in Peace Bobby Osborne

    Scotty Moore's passing was hardly mentioned in the mainstream;

    Scott T has made a place where our most important musical Heroes are not forgotten (and some of them post!)
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    Re: Sad news - Jesse McReynolds passes

    It has been said that Blues are about (nothing but) "A man and a woman" and the pain that results;
    The finest Bluegrass numbers are the same. Jim and Jesse singing one of their favorite songs:

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    Re: What is a "master luthier"?

    "A professional knows how to repair his mistakes; an amateur may not even know he has made one..."

    Wes Johnson
    "Watch Wes Work"
  24. Re: i don't think i've ever seen a thread here about McClanahan m

    I think C.J. likes mandolins.....

    https://bluegrasstoday.com/the-lore-of-the-loar-72058-part-1/

    https://bluegrasstoday.com/lore-of-the-loar-72058-part-2/
  25. Re: i don't think i've ever seen a thread here about McClanahan m

    C.J. Lewandowski has been known to play one;
    He also has (Jerry Rosa's) Uncle Don Brown's Loar and the "Greek Loar" as well.....
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