Gibson has one consistent trait:
Consistently inconsistent.
Gibson has one consistent trait:
Consistently inconsistent.
There is the "right way" and every other way.
Reset the neck, replace the bridge.
There are many kinds of maple.. do not use Western Big Leaf.. soft and punky.
I bought an A-3 new.
Later I "upgraded" to an A-6.
Both were exceptional instruments in quality of construction.
I miss the A-3.. to my ear, superior.
I spent 25 years in the car biz, the first 11 were fun and rewarding. Then I became a Jr Executive piggie in the same profession but a "factory rep" for Euro highline car makers teaching auto biz...
There is such a thing as an instrument for free that isn't worth the price.
I had a very serious "accident" a couple months after I had returned to mandolin after a couple years break.
I was now a furniture maker. I shoved my right hand into a shaper.
Gruesome would be...
Intentional "distressing" is a silly affectation.
Just my opinion.
Thanks Mike,, ergo, nothing new.
I build cavaquinhos. That is not a cavaquinho.
"Conversely, Jeff Hildreth has consistently posted that anything less than a wide nut is unplayable for him."
True then, true now. Anything less than 1 3/16ths is, for me, unplayable. I prefer...
Choose the one with the least amount of makeup, not scantily clad, a bit quiet and classy.
"I don't tip, I over tip."
Similar to buying friends and loyalty or jury tampering.
With respect to "tipping a cow".. have you.? 20 % ? , or is the cow the owner of itself therefore no...
By definition, that is not a "tip"
I tip the gas jockey at my local fill-up. He's out there every day in 30 degree weather at 6:00 Am.
In restaurants I consider 20% to be the norm and add or...
Traditionally tipping the owner of a business is NOT customary. Tipping an owner used to be considered insulting. Yes, I realize the world has changed and respect is out the window.
Tipping an...
I especially enjoyed the A style, sunburst electric pickup/controls mandolin. I am quite serious. Great music has been played on "unlikely" instruments.
Kudos to August Watters. An excellent...
Thanks for the effort Eugene.
I have been looking for this CD for quite some time.
I hope that her work will come to light, Alison is deserving.
I went to Chandos web site ... they do not have "Con Espressione". However they do advertise that they "burn" copies of CDs. I sent them an inquiry asking if they had new copies of "Con Espressione"...
Tab preceded standard musical notation.
Don't leave out arson which is the case with the Almeda fire in Talent/Phoenix, Oregon a scant few miles from my place. We are still on evacuation alert , though at level 1 currently.
Grab the...
I believe he also had a radio program.
Best wishes to him. Ready and able to help if Ken needs it.
We are in Jacksonville, Oregon.. about 8 miles from the ALAMEDA FIRE in Ashland, Talent,...
And the mysterious death Of David Douglas of Doug Hyphen Fir fame..
FYI:
https://keolamagazine.com/then-now/the-mysterious-death-of-david-douglas/
and this :
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According to ODF (Oregon Dept of Forestry) many of the firs in the Cascade range cross pollinate.
There was mention of the California Red Fir. I had known of this tree for 40 plus years as the...
To further blow your mind.. read the first few paragraphs of this:
https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/pseudotsuga.taxifolia
For over 50 years I knew Douglas Fir as pseudotsuga taxifolia.
I...
Douglas Fir is not a pine. I live in the middle of it. About 100 of them on my property I just sold after 22 years. ( 11.2 acres in Josephine County, Oregon) . I also have (had) about 200 pines and...