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The title of the thread sparked my interest. Should have noticed what forum it was in. Thought we were talking m
andolins.

Ah! Should have seen that. My bad!

All of your D chords are ninths, unless you're not letting the open e string ring.Of your G chords, the first is a sixth the second a 6/9,and the third is a ninth. Of your A chords the second one's a...

I see no mention of price. Anyone know what it went for?

If that's the serial number it would date to around 1907 0r 8. That would be consistant with the black top.

fleur de lis on headstock = K2. Tuners and tailpiece cover look like latter day replsacements. Hard to guess exact age without seeing the originals.

Go ahead and bite the Bullet. Don't stand Pat.

The new CD of Carlo Aonzo and Rene Izquierdo playing Paganini is truly awesome. Wonderful music performed incredibly well. Saw them doing excerpts from this as well as other things in Columbus a...

Handel tuners were used by Gibson, Vega, and other builders on their higher end models from the very early 1900s on. I have a 1906 A3 and a 1908 H2 that both have Handel tuners.

Doc Watson referred to his capo as "the little cheater bar", which I had always thought was the tavern where wee played occasionally.

Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow-wow

If you get a heftier-than-expected trade in from these guys you're suffering from low expectations. "Buy cheap, sell dear." I think Adam Smith said that - or Karl Marx. I can't remember which.

Very sad. And him so young. I knew him when he was a teen. Of all the brothers he was the one who got Daddy's voice.

Well if you're going to have to have restoration done on it either way, the few and far between O guitars I've seen for sale were going for two or three times the price of a K1.

Why would you want to do that? Certainly worth more as an O guitar than it would be as a conversion. Also, judging by the one O guitar I've ever had a chance to play, they don't sound that good, they...

Ah! My mistake. I can't see the ad. Thought he was talking about the 5-10k price.

Maybe from someplace like Elderly or Mandolin Brothers. In the real world you'd be very lucky to get three k. (Without the crack - with the crack maybe 12-15 hundred. Maybe.)

10K!!!!!! I'll have to tell Mrs. Miko that she's rich! (That's her 1906 A3 Mr. Hopkins posted a picture of.) Once she finds out she's independently wealthy she'll probably drop me like a hot potato.

(QUOTE?) I suspect the 1898 date was probably the patent date that got misquoted in the ad. [/QUOTE]

Since the Gibson company wasn't started until 1902 the 1898 date is undoubtedly the patent...

There's a Loar from seven months later on the classifieds for 160k. I guess "same date as Bill's" is worth 90k? It is to laugh!

To be completely legal you need to buy a mechanical license from the Harry Fox agency

Count Basie

I can't seem to manage to imbed the video. (Old people aren't very good with technology) Here is the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ww8IgxJjWg

Here, from The Yellow Springs News, is a video of the Dayton Mandolin Orchestra and the Kalamazooo Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra playing Victor Garcia's [I]Passages Through Mexico[I] at a joint...