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" the "value" of those old mandolins is mostly fetish hype over the fanciness . Christian, being a good judge of tone in guitars doesn't transfer across to other instruments. Leaving the vintage...

Try to get hold of Mark Tossman in Seattle area

Give Greg Boyd a call www.gregboyd.com. He's been dealing Givens mandolins for years and always has a few.

Casein picks break easily. This was the case when Red Bear started making them 10+ years ago (they warned against flexing them). IMO it's the nature of the material:

"Do NOT Bend or Flex your...

Well, although he started on mandolin with Lester Flatt, Marty is primarily a guitar player, like Ricky Skaggs is a terrific guitar player, but known as a mandolin player. There are a ton of pro...

All of my favourite mandolin players have already been named with the exception of Tiny Moore, Paul Glasse & Joe K Walsh....can't forget them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se9kb6dsHLQ...

I attended the Montana Fiddle Camp in Monarch, for a week, when Bobby Hicks, John Reischman and and Brad Leftwich were teaching. There was lots of jamming & of course the music the entire week, was...

The Montana Fiddle Camp is well-run and in a great venue. How can you go wrong with instructors like Redd Volkaert & my friend Paul Glasse, for that weekend?

Tyler Grant Music posts his upcoming playlist on Facebook. Here's the one for monday March 25.
Spring is in the air, and I'm in the studio. Anyhow, let's have a Playalong Bluegrass Jam on Monday....

Clearly we have different ideas of what constitutes bluegrass music.
Over.

then you have a pretty broad definition of bluegrass..... i'd say they're closer to classical quartet playing.....

Hawktail is as far from Bluegrass as you can get. I saw them again at Wintergrass a couple of weeks ago. Has Mr Sun been mentioned?

That is though, what is under discussion, $20k mandolins.....

212492. Maurice Baquet....

I'm going laugh everytime i see a banner Gibson now ! :)

Yes. Steve Gilchrist & Paul Duff are some stiff competition!

Thile. Silly!

Martin made spectacular guitars in the 30s that are still the apex of flat top guitar building 90 years later. Today Martin still hasn't been able to equal them.....
Those who might choose to spend...

Very well said! Thank You!

Agreed. Looking at David Benedict's new Apitius, I forgot to mention Oliver A. .....

For a $20k mandolin I'd be looking at the competition & Gibson wouldn't be at the top of my list. In alphabetical order Ellis, Gilchrist, Heiden....

That''s true for a lot of items outside the mandolin world.....

...based on the advertising so far ??

Thanks Mark. You outdid yourself once again. The Vintage Instrument Workshop is the event we wait for all year. A special shout out to your re-stringing crew and stage hands. Vanna White couldn't do...

& it sounded pretty darn fine at Wintergrass this past weekend!