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Wow, this is truly a beautiful record. Congratulations, Ashley!!

One answer to the question of "where to start" would be with Mike Marshall. Here's a favorite video that shows him trading solos on a fiddle tune:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdq6Nw1Qc8U
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Happy Birthday, and big time thanks to Scott and Mods for building and maintaining the best site on the Web! :-)

Here's the one-piece back on my Mowry A. I love how much there is going on in the maple figure!

The record label is listed as Cactus Breakfast Records, the googling of which reveals a bandcamp page with a whole series of these recordings: https://cactusbreakfastrecords.bandcamp.com/

I...

Hope you'll post pics of the A2 as well. You did a really nice job of photographing the A1!

Happy playin'!

Very cool! How's it sound??

I find ASD pretty convenient and effective on my iPhone. You can easily import songs from your iTunes library for use in ASD. I'm sure you can do something similar on Android phones, too. Having...

You might try contacting the family here:

http://www.thepinkhamfamilyband.com/contact.htm

and see if they're still selling it. I bought it when he released it and have listened to it a lot. ...

+1 on "Real Time" w/ Tim & Darrell Scott. And "Fiddler's Green" is a great, great record.

He is, indeed, a fabulous guitarist. There's a Planet Bluegrass podcast where they interview him, and...

Man, that walnut is gonna look gorgeous when it's carved, stained, and finished! Thanks for sharing. Keep us posted. :-)

Very cool! Thanks for posting that.

I think Chris used to play guitar occasionally in Nickel Creek's later years. And if you go very far back (like when he was 10), he *was* the guitarist in...

I would say go for either the Weber or the Collings. Possible edge to the Collings on resale value, but they're really pretty comparable.

Since you're not able to play them in advance I'll...

"I originally learned how to play as a way of meeting green chicks."

Great interview. Great info. And a smokin' Green Dolphin Street! Thanks, Donnie!!

Gorgeous work, Andrew! I predict there will be some happy folks across the pond in a few days.

Can't recommend Andrew Mowry highly enough! I love the A5 he built for me, and he's a first class guy to deal with. He keeps you up-to-date on the build process with great "in progress" pictures,...

Thanks for your responses, all! This is pretty much the way I've been leaning. . . Get him a righty mando and only think about switching to a lefty instrument if he's really having trouble picking...

Hi all,

Up to now, my kids (6 and 3) have usually just come up to me while I'm practicing and asked to "play", which means madly strumming with the pick while Dad holds the mando and frantically...

Yes, yes, yes to many, many of your questions, Scott! Just donated.

Were it not for this site, I never would have heard of Andrew Mowry, and therefore my new Mowry A-5 would not exist! And...

How about Snakehead, Pumpkin Top, or Mojo? Or Martin or Herringbone or Drednought?

I love that track! Anyone know what kind of mando Mark used? He gets a great tone on that song (not to mention that his picking is extraordinary).

Has anyone seen this yet?. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZ40V0teGM

Just posted a week or so ago. In addition to some great playing, the clip really shows off the Dude, from a number of...

I think it's largely because there are so many of them. The mandolin was at the peak of its popularity in the teens, and Gibson was cranking them out. That, coupled with the fact that they're quite...

Re. Thile/Marshall collaborations, I think they played together a lot when Chris lived in San Francisco, since Mike would have been conveniently right across the Bay in Oakland. Now that Chris lives...