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what a difference a year makes. Gruhn has one in their inventory at about $8500. Taterbugmando site seems to think very highly, and if that were not enough one of the Monroe Camp teachers bought...

Having attended ten if not eleven SFSS (though not this year or last) I can say that nearly all of the classes in singing and mandolin have been either very, very good or excellent. Only one stood...

Molsky, Aly Bain and Ale Moller were at the Bush Hall in west London about a year or two, a great concert. SInce then Bruce MOlsky has been in the Uk several times at our local barn in Towersey...

Mike, the mandolin player, was in several of the mandolin classes that I took at the UK's famous Sore fingers Bluegrass School. A nice chap who plays well and was a whizz at engineering in...

Margaret Dumonde/Dumont. Groucho was alsways taking the Michael with her.

MD "Do you have everything?"
Groucho "I haven't had any complaints yet."

Best not to stoke the embers...

Some years ago, Ben Paley, son of ex-New Lost City Rambler Tom Paley, wrote and recorded on tape a book of Scandinavian fiddle tunes. It was published by Dragonfly Music, in Newcastle. It might...

I use some of the very smallest boxes available from the Really Useful Box Company; a little like a teeny, tiny trunk, has a lid and blue handles (cost about 50p UK). Also useful, to keep the...

I have something similar to the Windsor chair above, but it has been converted to a rocker. Best ever chair for playing and keeping time. No arms to get in the way.

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Like Clyde (some pages back) I have been listening to Skip Gorman (when is that man going to come to the UK?) and pairing Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mts. with Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine , and...

What ever happened to the Missouri Mandolins Kid's Mo...a 4 string mandolin?

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My commiserations. I broke (and dislocated) my elbow in late 2007, same as you: radial head fracture, multiple bone chips and a very, very bad dislocation. When surgen saw me the next day he stood...

Two years ago, our friend and jammer, Dr. Peter Derow collapsed and died in Wadham College (University of Oxford) quad of a heart attack. His funeral was held in the college chapel, with all the...

To echo mando Gordon's post: a couple of years ago I was in a mandolin class at Sore Fingers (the British bluegrass and old time "camp" held each year in the Cotwolds), sitting next to a slightly...

Hey Jim,

Our paths could have crossed a million times. I know the Music Room well as a regular customer and well acquainted with Tony who works there Saturday and Bill who is the manager. He...

Say Jim,

If you usually start your visit down in Marlow, you could make a detour to Oxford where I live...it's not far, as you know.

From the look of the student gatherings on Saturday, the...

Hey I was up there too for the Folkworks concerts. Some really great playing, no?

Did you get a chance to see the Pipe Museum in Morpeth, just a little way up the road? About five/ten miles...

Yes please use my real name too.

Taube is: Taube Marks

Many thanks!

"As I've said in another thread I'm slowly recovering from an accident on the 12 of February that caused fractures on my pelvis, left radius and left elbow. I think I can bend my elbow sufficiently...

Thanks guys. I don't have either of these books, but I did find it on the Doc Watson Family album in my collection. I'll see if I can find the Philipps book locally in Oxford before going further...

Can anyone point me in the right direction for the notation (not tab) for Muddy Roads other than the Fiddler's Fakebook by David Brody?

Thanks

Taube

Sounds as though this is due for reprinting. Has anyone approached the rights' holder (ie, the widow or the publisher) and suggested that there may be a market for a republication or for people to...

For those of you with internet access, you might like to check out the BBC web site. Last week, the afternoon play broadcast at 2.15 (after the Archers' repeat) consisted of four, 45 minute slots,...

Gruhn's Guide to Vintage instruments lists all the changes and all the differencers over the years for A model Gibsons.
It's not a straight forward descriptions but it will chart the variations.

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Now that you mention it, I think I asked Stefan Sobell for a reappraisal on the Large Bodied, all maple mandolin around 2005-2006, and if I am not mistaken it is was over £3K. I have to look at my...