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  1. Re: Best Mandolin for Traveling From Sea Level to High Desert?

    Klos Guitars says they’re coming out with a carbon fiber unit. Hoping it’s a Tacoma style flat top for price.
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    Mix, Carbon Fiber.. is the one ... (My 3rd hand A5 had a refret a couple years ago)

    :whistling:

    the wood & RH changes is the issue . There was an Ovation line, the top a spruce carbon fiber...
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    Re: Bowlbacks of Note

    I did suggest Demeglio, Ceccherini and would add Puglisi and probably a real others. I have owned a few teens and twenties Calaces and they are excellent and own a few Emberghers. Nothing against...
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    Re: Bowlbacks of Note

    I recently paid $1500 for a 1913 Calace that had been fully restored. I love it, and thought it was a deal!
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    Re: Bowlbacks of Note

    Why not settle for an Italian bowlback? There are quality instruments available for far less than that Calace. I can attest to the tonality of Italian bowlbacks differing from the American bowls I've...
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    Re: Bowlbacks of Note

    And to add more Italian flavor try Dogal Calace RW92b dolce strings best IMHO for vintage bowlbacks.

    Consider also Washburn, American Conservatory, Weymann, Maurer etc if on good shape.
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    Re: Bowlbacks of Note

    +1 on Jim's recommendation for a good quality Vega.

    I've found them to be the most "Italian" of the major US producers.
    Lightly built (but with a better neck) and very responsive.

    Keep us...
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    Re: Bowlbacks of Note

    Bill Foss: I am not sure which model this is either but it doesn’t look like the top of the line. I hesitate to say that a 1950s Calace is not good but it seems like the price is a bit optimistic....
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    Re: Punch Brothers "Hell on Church Street"

    I’m inspired by their talent & hard work on their craft and respect the need to create the sounds they want to hear…but…other than Cattle in the Cane, Jerusalem Ridge & Pride of Man not much drawing...
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    Re: Irish Tenor Banjo Recordings

    Just got "Back in Time", the new album by Angelina Carberry and Dan Brouder - it's a good 'un!
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    Re: Tuner Buttons Buzzing

    I've used Sunburst's solution for dropping super glue into the button at shaft juncture with success. I also like pops1 idea of modifying an existing plate but not sure if my ocd would allow it, lol!...
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    Re: Tuner Buttons Buzzing

    Before these were available I would buy any tuner set and cut the tuner plates apart at the screw holes. It doesn't have to spread so much that the screws won't hold the plates on but will be enough...
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    Re: Tuner Buttons Buzzing

    Same problem on a 1912 Gibson K4 with the original tuners ("Handel"?). Mike at Portland Fretworks removed, super-glued them back on and tightened things up. Buzz is gone, but some of the little knobs...
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    Re: Tuner Buttons Buzzing

    Maybe you didn't run across this thread of mine. Get some of Stew-Mac's thin super glue and wick it up along the shaft. Worked for me.
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    Re: Tuner Buttons Buzzing

    I had a customer drive 2 hours to bring me his mandolin to track down a buzz. Tightened the screw on a tuner button and that did it!
    So look at the bright side, you figured it out yourself!
    I...
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    Re: Tuner Buttons Buzzing

    I pulled the buzzing buttons off of the shaft and wrapped the shaft with teflon tape (plumbing tape) and forced the buttons back on. So far so good.

    I really dislike StewMac tuners. Shoddy...
  17. Re: Correct nut files for different string gauges

    You can rock the smaller size file slightly to open the slot for a perfect fit - I have done this many times. As usual, the goal is to have slot depth about one-half the string diameter.

    For...
  18. Tom Kimber on tenor guitar, mandolin and tenor banjo!

    This came up on my Youtube feed - great stuff!

    NC80WnsdMpo
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    Re: Vitti 'Na Crozza

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVPTX30Qw8s

    I thought this tune was "Sciuri scuiri".

    I like them both.
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    Vitti 'Na Crozza

    https://youtu.be/QzAaCHkRIFc

    The song was a leitmotiv of Pietro Germi's movie "Il cammino della speranza."
    In 1950, Pietro was in Sicily to start filming his movie. One day at Favara,
    where...
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    Re: Types of Mandolin Collections

    Years ago, when my son was into baseball cards, we met a man who’s goal was to get a card of one player on each team every year. He wanted to follow the uniforms. I thought that was an interesting...
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    Re: Types of Mandolin Collections

    Sort of... I am however convinced that no one starts a collection from ground zero. There has to be some attraction to acquiring it in the first place. And the distinction in my mind between...
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    Re: Types of Mandolin Collections

    Another type... but it may or may not be a "collector" though.

    A musician who collects tools to satisfy creative needs. I'd land here. I'm not looking for anything expensive, vintage, or...
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    Re: Types of Mandolin Collections

    ... and a third type: just anything that appeals to the crazed collector. I hereby dub this "The Monkey Mind Collection." It works like this: I get some tiny itch of an interest in some oddball thing...
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    Re: Bobby Osborne instrumentals

    According to some accounts Howdy Forrester wrote it alone; according to others Robert Rutland contributed; or maybe Forrester borrowed some material from Rutland.

    The tunes Say Old Man and High...
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