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    Re: Mandolin in Bruce Springsteen's band

    Wondered who that was playing an Ovation mando. I figured out it was Steven Van Zandt, but should have known to come here first. You could see he was picking, but it was completely drowned out. What...
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    Re: Clifford Mandolinetto ca 1900 or so...

    Very cool! The people at GUITAR TEX are just the BEST. Maybe you'll bring it home from the office on a jam day (hint hint hint).
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    Re: Rest in peace - Joe Carr

    Joe had one of the keenest senses of humor I've ever seen. His timing on jokes was impeccable, heightened by his difficulty speaking. Often self-deprecating, he encouraged people to step out of their...
  4. Re: Has anyone played the Sam Bush at Fiddlers Green

    I've played that mandolin, and it sounds just fine. Part of the problem for that particular Sam Bush model is that it is hanging right next to some fantastic mandolins by Ellis, Pava, Passernig, and...
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    Re: Mando-inspired Haiku

    Spring weather has sprung
    Forward along with the clocks
    Arriving early

    Perfect time to play
    The winter of discontent
    Melts into warm days
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    Re: Free V-Picks - Right Here

    I'd love to give them a try. Fingers crossed...
  7. Re: Guitar Tex Featured in San Antonio Newspaper

    The Donnie Pack mentioned in the article runs the Dellview Music School two blocks (really!) from my house. He has given lessons to half the guitar players in San Antonio. And that is a LOT of...
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    Re: Mando-inspired Haiku

    cool breezes playing
    the waning days of summer
    hot mando pickin'
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    Re: Mando-inspired Haiku

    Summer oozing past,
    A quiet ritardando
    The last few measures.
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    Re: Summer Camp Reports

    It gave me some satisfaction to walk off the stage following our second number and say, "What happened to the capo on that last song?"

    "D'oh!"

    Thank you Becky Smith for teaching me to play in...
  11. Re: Rattlesnake rattle - required equipment or accessory?

    That's the way my old girlfriend used to prepare them. It is a lot of work, very time consuming, right up there with shelling black-eyed peas, but the final product is delicious.

    I read that they...
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    Re: Mando-inspired Haiku

    Class during the day,
    Jamming 'til dawn's early light.
    Where was time for sleep?

    Camp Bluegrass was great!
    Dedicated to Monroe
    In his hundredth year.
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    Re: I think this cartoon says it all..

    Unless perhaps it is this one from the same issue:

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    I think this cartoon says it all..

    From the July 9th and 16th, 2012, issue of The New Yorker:

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    Re: Camp Bluegrass 2012 -- Levelland, Texas

    It was listed in the "Full July" notice of camps and workshops, but I was surprised that no one had started a thread this year touting it. Lots of folks from nearby New Mexico there, and Steve Smith...
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    Camp Bluegrass 2012 -- Levelland, Texas

    I'm burning up highway tomorrow headed for Levelland and Camp Bluegrass 2012, George Wilson riding shotgun. The focus of the camp this year is, of course, Bill Monroe's 100th birthday, and Joe Carr...
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    Re: Stringed instruments in school

    School districts all across south Texas westward to southern California have mariachi programs that are predominantly strings. Guitaron, guitar, vihuela, harp, and of course, violin all are...
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    Re: 100+ temperatures and a mandolin?

    I was (covered) porch pickin' my Ludewig Emory Lester model three days ago and it was 106˚. Perspiration got it a little sticky, so the next day when it was 108˚, I played my Mix A4. Both performed...
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    Re: Cushman Mandolins

    I must be just old enough to wonder why a scooter company would branch into mandolins? :grin:

    They sound like they are fine instruments, but I have never seen or heard one. The name just grabs...
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    Re: Mando-inspired Haiku

    On the mandolin
    I'll play her a well-known tune...
    Happy Birthday, Mom.

    Assassination
    Or "Beware the Ides of March"
    Julius Caesar

    Glad Julius wrote
    Salad dressing recipe...
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    Re: Mando-inspired Haiku

    New Year's Eve is here
    Two Thousand Twelve tomorrow...
    Where has the time flown?
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    Re: Mando-inspired Haiku

    Gentle rain falling
    Inspiring mando haiku...
    Maintenance disrupts.

    Advent tomorrow...
    Hints of Christmas in the air
    Blown by cold north winds.
  23. Re: Austin, TX - Austin String Band Festival

    i only got to go for the first night. Rich Hartness and the Pickled Beats were fun. Lots of contra dancing with extra vigorous stomping. Ben was there with his musical partner (who I do not know;...
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    Re: A Big Thanks to my Cafe Friends

    God bless you, Joe. Get well soon.
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    Re: Mando-inspired Haiku

    Better ninty-one
    Than one hundred eleven
    Degrees in the shade.

    Thirty-three degrees
    And forty-four degrees C
    For you metric types.

    These haiku composed
    Utilizing a MacBook...
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