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  1. Re: 'Fast Car' Grammy Guitar - connection to Michael Heiden

    There's more info here via the Global News if you're interested.
    https://globalnews.ca/news/10275224/...pman-fast-car/

    When I saw the item on TV, the first thing I noticed was the Heiden guitar...
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    Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    Down/up allows your timing to come out right every time. It's also what John Reischman plays and teaches, and that's good enough for me. Mandolin's not a guitar, and it becomes automatic before...
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    Re: The Honeymoon is OVER!!!

    I've had all kinds of mandolins, mandolas, and octaves, and never found changing strings a problem. It was just a matter of figuring out what was needed for each tailpiece. If I encountered an...
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    Re: Standard bluegrass tunes CD?

    Hand Picked - 25 Years of Bluegrass on Rounder Records. Double album, all the artists. Rounder CD AN 22/23
    Blue Ribbon Bluegrass. Another great collection of artists and tunes. Rounder CD AN 11
  5. Re: Gibson has become a popular spam victim/target

    I automatically assume anything like that is a scam and clicking on the link lets thieves in the door. Straight to Junk and block sender if possible.
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    Re: 30 tunes you should know!

    Great video. Thanks for posting.
  7. Re: Has anyone heard about a crazy mandolinist named Frank Wakefi

    He's one of the pioneers. Check out an online bio on him.
  8. Re: Better and not as good years for Gibson F5Ls...

    Start with 1984 or '85, whenever Gibson bought out Flatiron. I've had a couple signed by Steve Carlson and would happy with another one anytime. Budget $6,000 +/-
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    Re: Your MAS Progression

    In Canada, it's been my experience that getting a mandolin has more to do with opportunity - encountering an instrument by chance - than with chasing or searching out a particular instrument. As a...
  10. Re: NimbleFingers Bluegrass/Old-Time Week I - Sorrento, BC Canada

    Cancelled because of wildfire. This is a great camp and a great location which has been around for over 20 years. Between covid and now this wildfire, it's a real shame to lose the work and energy...
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    Re: F5 style Mandolin ????

    What's the selling price, in US dollars. What sort of case does it have.
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    Re: Stelling Mandolin up for auction

    Stelling farmed these out to a number of builders, including Yiri Lebeda in Czechoslovakia. Tristan Scroggins like his by John Hamlet, but the usual wisdom is that the ones by Virginia luthier Ward...
  13. Thread: Carter Vintage

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    Re: Carter Vintage

    I just checked out their website for the first time in a long time and was knocked out by the amount of guitar inventory. BTW who is Ervin Somogyi and why are his guitars $150,000.
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    Re: Gibson A-Model Serial Number ID

    The serial number may not be readily visible, but is it relevant. The FON gives a 1920 manufacturing date and that's usually the information sought. As Spann points out, the FON is assigned at the...
  15. Thread: arthritis

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    Re: arthritis

    I play an OM too and have left hand problems. Stretching is step one; fingers and forearm. Don't even think about 4 finger chop chords; double stops all way, maybe a 3 finger chord where that works....
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    Re: Tell me about your Gibson A5L mandolin.....

    I guess it is true that every instrument can be a little different. I have a '92 Carlson A5L that was a lucky find, a bargain, and sounds fantastic. So I added an '88 F5L, all original, and it was...
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    Re: Distressed Master Model ....question

    The ad sounds like a fishing trip. DMMs were in the mid-teens a few years ago, and I expect they would be pulling 20 +/- these days. I saw the ad for the Bill Monroe that rcc56 mentioned and was...
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    Re: Strings for a Clark GOM

    I have bronze ball end mediums from Emando on my Clark. 46/34/24/13. Sounds great and doesn't seem to need a heavy G string. Haven't tried monels on the octave yet but have a set on a D18 and like...
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    Re: Happy Eighth Of January From Sam Bush

    ...aka The Battle of New Orleans. Thanks for posting, JB.
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    Re: Purchasing a good beginner mandolin in Canada

    Great call on the Mike Dulak. He comes from an interesting and highly regarded line of luthiers from Sand Point, Idaho, and continues that fine work. I first encountered him on a 1981 Franklin OM...
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    Re: Gibson F7 original /Rare?

    There's a '39 F7 listed in today's Classifieds. "Rare"
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    Re: Update on CITES

    Sounds great. What's the "proper documentation" and how do you get it.
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    Re: Update on CITES

    Sounds great. What's the "proper documentation" and how do you get it.
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    Re: Purchasing a good beginner mandolin in Canada

    I'd give Byron a call at Myhre's Music in Edmonton. He's very helpful and usually has inventory. I'd also touch bases with Sawchyn Music in Regina.
  25. Re: violin buying question to you trusted cafe goers (NMC)

    Well, no poems, stories, or novels come immediately to mind, but I can't let a showing of The Red Violin go by without catching a few minutes of some portion of it.
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