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If you use Facebook, there's a group called "Eastern Shore Bluegrass Association". You might inquire there. Also, another FB group, "Maryland Bluegrass" sometime publicizes Eastern Shore events.
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Down to $20,000 now.

I'll second Delfest. I've been to several of them, including last year's. It's a well run enjoyable festival with an eclectic range of acts.

Yes, quite common. Wood changes with humidity. It swells as it becomes more humid and shrinks as it becomes drier. The former usually happens in the summer and causes the strings to go sharp. The...

Thanks for posting that. It was the first time I heard that song and remember it vividly.

I think you're mis-reading it. In a long ago conversation, someone proposed that all bluegrass lyrics can be summed in up in four words: "I sold the farm," and that Old Home Place was the platonic...

Maybe Brazilian rosewood.

"You can always speak to the dead, but you needn't expect an answer." -- The Queen of the Phantom Empire to Gene's sidekick before Gene is put in the Radium Revival Chamber.

I bought an F5L new in the 90's and when it was stolen in 2005, replaced it with a new F5G. I'm certainly lamenting the possibility of Gibson no longer making mandolins.

Hard to tune?

It's there at about 1:01.

The movie was a tremendous disappointment -- it covers about 10 pages of 500 page book.

The book not only has "some" mando content, but a bit of bouzouki as well. ...

While that may be true, intonation isn't the phenomenon being discussed here. I think on every mandolin I've ever played, if something's gone out of tune after playing it a half hour or so, it's...

Here's the version that I first heard:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwtzF--zGZU

You must not be from the Philadelphia area.

That's probably why I currently have only 3 mandos - I think I passed the 50 mark this year on number of flyrods.

Lifetime I've had 9 mandos, four of which were stolen.

For example Bill Bolick (of the Blue Sky Boys) is playing a Martin model 20 on this:

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Doesn't it mean "Paul is dead?":whistling:

Actually, it wasn't the bullet that killed McKinley, but medical malpractice. Although they'd know about sterile technique since the civil war, the attending doctor -- a gynecologist, not a surgeon...

That one has long been my nomination for either the stupidest lyric ever written, or the stupidest murderer.

It's based on actual incident, btw. (In northern England, circa 1830).

Could just be varying distances from the mic to each other.

That's "under heaven" and just sounds better that "under the sky". I don't read any theistic notion into it at all.

You might also want to have someone else play it, or record yourself and listen to it. To me, at least F hole instruments project forward better than they do back to the player.

Yep. The OP says he heats in the winter, and uses A/C in the summer - I guarantee the humidity is changing.

I think there's something to that. I also find the A strings to be hardest to keep in tune, but have the same problem with the B string on most guitars that I own, for what I believe is the same...

The Seldom Scene did it. At least John Duffy sang it -- my memory might be faulty & it could been the Country Gentlemen.



Depends on what you mean by "popularized". It was a Grayson &...