(Ain't no use barkin', got the)
Doghouse Blues
(Ain't no use barkin', got the)
Doghouse Blues
Too red.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBwPijCyy-4
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...
C.J. Lewandowski doin' it right with his McClanahan (and the Po' Ramblin Boys)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43woa_z9nw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ee3X2-AXW4
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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Hylo Brown's 1948 'Bone
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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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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...
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...
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...
Tons, but a K-Style Mandocello is a rare enough bird that he might have only had the one...
#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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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
LL's Large Band was one of the best shows I have ever seen....
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)
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?...
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.
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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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!)
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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"A professional knows how to repair his mistakes; an amateur may not even know he has made one..."
Wes Johnson
"Watch Wes Work"
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/
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.....