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  1. Re: Craigs List sale and cashiers check - is this a scam

    Have you tried Reverb.com? Their fees are a lot lower than what eBay charges nowadays. I've never bought or sold a mandolin but I have bought and sold several other things and have never had a...
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    Re: Ones you wish you bought.

    Blacktop Randy Wood F5, used for $3k. It had the tone but not the volume. Still, that tone...
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    Re: Reuben's Train

    I don't know who I might have stolen this from, but I always played it in D with one of my A strings (cross)tuned down to F# and it sounded pretty good.
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    Re: Any Ex-Banjo Pickers?

    There were no banjo players involved. I don't guess I explained the story too well; my point was that whatever tune it was that had been started in the tune of D natural, by the time it went around...
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    Re: Any Ex-Banjo Pickers?

    I remember seeing Chris Thile at a mandolin workshop one early Saturday morning at Byron Berline's festival 14 or 15 years ago. The fellows on stage started some tune in D, and after a couple or...
  6. Re: Bluegrass In Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound & Its Legacy

    This book looks great, and I look forward to reading it, and thank you to the author for writing it and the publisher for publishing it, but, is that a nylon string guitar on the cover?
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    Re: Haggard's Birthday

    Take a shot at Roy Nichols' lead break on "Honky Tonk Night Time Man."
    And remember Tiny Moore toured and recorded with the Strangers for awhile.
  8. Re: a newish Southern Flavor Monroe video just found

    Actually, throughout the '60s and early '70s (and maybe to some degree in the late '50s) it was common for hot country bands to cut albums that were mostly just the band playing instrumentals, with...
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    Re: To gig or not to gig...

    I'd be ready to play and sing "Danny Boy," too.
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    Re: Best Bluegrass Albums of 2012

    I didn't buy a lot of new bluegrass recordings in '12, but my favorite one that I did spring for was "Pardon Me..." by Travers Chandler and Avery County. Most of the other "young" band that are...
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    Re: Is Hoarding Nice Instruments Justifiable?

    Well said.
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    Re: Bluegrass on LP

    If you want to invest some $$ (and who doesn't?), look for a VPI record vacuum. Those will really clean the gunk from the grooves.
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