Mike I deeply respect your moderation and personal opinions.:)
I agree about heavy electric basses - I've even had my luthier buddy hollow out the back of my fretless J bass. BTW, it sounds...
Mike I deeply respect your moderation and personal opinions.:)
I agree about heavy electric basses - I've even had my luthier buddy hollow out the back of my fretless J bass. BTW, it sounds...
This is a fantastic analysis of a recently discovered L-5 which turned out to be the oldest known example! It was signed on February 28th 1923 and was in remarkable shape- just a 1940s tailpiece and...
Good new demo of the one that's currently for sale.
https://youtu.be/mVP-vu6ffRM
The big issues with your grandpa's mandolin would be condition, particularly neck action.
I'm one of the folks that plays bowlbacks regularly, mostly Italian music, choro, Klezmer, and classical....
I missed out on owning a Le Domino uke. My step-father owned it and I took the teens Martin uke instead. It was like the dark ones on this site. The original Stewarts.
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It's all right here.
It took a good long while and more wheeling and dealing (and spousal apologizing) than I've ever done, but I've managed to put together a full Lyon & Healy Quartet.
All are player grade - the...
I am SO happy to see that Paul Hostetter's website is again available; when I last looked 5 or 6 months ago, it was not. It's a wonderful resource, and he was a frequent poster here.
IIRC, his...
Frankly you don't need a strap with a bowlback...seriously. You can even stroll without a strap.
Interesting to see someone investigating the science of bowlbacks https://brill.com/view/journals/ijwc/2/1-3/article-p1_1.xml
I'm right here!
There are two Ceccherinis in my profile picture, although one of them has been sold since then to one of the other players in our mandolin group -- I see it every week. We...
Other way around, the older 24 fret one has the English label with the serial number, the Italian label without the number is on the newer 22 fret one.
Yes same size.
Haha, I've had a...
Many thanks, Mick. Bothies traditionally were basic farm buildings where the workers were housed, a bit like the bunkhouse that featured in so many of the cowboy films I feasted on as a youngster. ...
Brunello , a bothy was a kind of hut or outhouse for farm workers. Hence the great northeast Scotland tradition of "bothy ballads" - often comic, but sometimes tragic songs and stories of rural...
This is a James Scott Skinner fiddle composition I have adapted to octave mandolin and guitar. The Queen in the title is Victoria, not the recently departed Elizabeth, who passed away very near to...
One of these I've been playing for while, the other is newly restored, not often you get two of these in the same place at the same time!
In addition to the level of decoration, the main...
I work at the University of Washington and came across some old photos of campus and had to scan this one in for you all.
I thought it was interesting to find five mandolins in this... Orchestra?...
Greetings all. I couldn't locate a recent H-O thread to include this on, so creating a new post here - the goal just to get this archived somewhere besides my office. I stumbled on this yesterday...
when it gets to the USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Fs7_pied4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqA4IviTEwQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRCYp9Lft8c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqA4IviTEwQ
and from my hometown!
It's that time again, kids. Where else is this being celebrated on the internets?
Searching around for information on the man and ended up here. Don't think I've seen that page in 15 years.
This is a popular Finnish waltz composed in 1931 by Viljo Vesterinen.
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I acquired this via French site Leboncoin - some interesting instruments can appear there but you usually need a French phone number and mailing address.
It needed some attention: raising the...
As others have said, I'm quite certain it is fake based solely on the fact that the label (ignoring for a moment that it is clearly hand drawn) is dated with a Ballpoint pen, which obviously would...
Tonight! . . . If you happen to be near central Ohio. I'm among the "friends" in this tremendously diverse chamber-music-with-guitar concert: Karl Wohlwend and Friends. My time on stage will be...