In additional to his astonishing and original talent, one of the kindest and most generous people you will ever meet. I studied with him in the late '70s-early '80s when he lived in Oakland, CA and...
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In additional to his astonishing and original talent, one of the kindest and most generous people you will ever meet. I studied with him in the late '70s-early '80s when he lived in Oakland, CA and...
I kept breaking the string on my Gibson TG-1, 22.81 scale, in CGDA. Solved the problem by tuning down a whole step from C to B, etc. Really full and deep sound is the result. I don't play the...
I recently tuned my 1931 Gibson TG-1 tenor one-half step below CGDA (starting with B). This gives (on John Pearse strings) 11, 13, 22, 32. Nothing breaks with this tuning and gauge of strings. I...
Charley,
Probably not that one-piece bridge, but I know (and have seen them up close, but some decades ago) that Frank has used black bakelite for the top piece on an adjustable bridge. When he was...
Check with John Gonzalez at Sparrow:
https://www.sparrowukulele.com/products/sparrow-5-string-solid-body-electric-mandolin
As a recovering mandolinist I am new to the tenor guitar. I recently bought a 1928 Gibson TG-0, and would like some string recommendations. Currently tuned CGDA, which is what I want, but am unsure...
In modifying a hard shell case to fit a small (TG-0) Gibson tenor guitar, I am using some closed cell styrofoamy material to be covered by a crushed velvet type fabric remnant. What glue should I...
Thanks for all the encouragement--and helpful suggestions, many of which are very practical ones that I would not have imagined. I've spent more time staring carefully at my left hand, and flipping...
Mods, please move this if I've put it in the wrong place.
A mandolin player for 50+ years, I'd like to take up cello when I retire (soon).
I know in advance that bowing a large instrument...
If you agree on a trade with someone, how does the exchange work? If you sell an instrument, you get the money and then send the instrument. But if you're essentially exchanging one instrument for...
Thanks. Useful to know that the Cafe gets more money from one chunky donation than from lots of small continuing ones. In addition to a donation that I have made from a recent sale, and one that I...
I apologize if this is covered somewhere, but I couldn't find it. Also, if it doesn't belong here.
Does it matter to the Cafe if a donation is made through PayPal vs. a credit card? Does the...
Hi Mandobar,
I don't see any Campanella info at the Music Emporium site. Do you have a link? And, if you or anyone else knows, does this mean that an order starts at TME, or do you need to wait...
Frank Wakefield still plays the same old Loar that he bought in 1960. That's a 60-year run.
My Wiens #35.
I own Wiens #35; you can see it in the Mandolin Archive Wiens section and my comments in the thread that Mike Edgerton linked. Absolutely terrific sounding on lows and highs and everything in...
"Or what Bill Monroe said: "Well, it ain't the mandolin..."
Which is, in fact, some part of somethin'.
Alan,
That reminds me of what Norman Blake was quoted as asking somewhere: "How much time have you spent behind the box, son?"
"Underappreciated" perhaps, rather than "underrated" for nearly everyone named here.
Frank Wakefield, three more times.
Jack Tottle.
I never lose an opportunity to praise Jack Tottle's amazing Back Road Mandolin, and it reminds me that it's time for my annual note to Rounder Records pleading, begging, demanding that they release...
I wonder why Carter Vintage lists this as 2012. It looks to me to be Wiens #37 (2013) as listed by Dan B. in the Mandolin Archive:http://www.mandolinarchive.com/wiens/serial/37
I own #35, one of...
For several decades now Frank Wakefield has played the Beethoven Andante con Variazioni (WoO 44) in concert. One nice touch is that he would have the banjo doing the keyboard plinky plinky parts. It...
Well, sometime around 1980 when I was taking lessons from Frank Wakefield in Oakland, CA, he said that someone had offered him $10,000 for his Loar--and he was amazed at that high price. But he kept...
RickieK and Skip: thanks. Now that I listen to it again, of course that's it.
Alan: you're wrong.
Can't nobody, nohow, figure out that third line?