Frankendola for sure. There appear to be 5 strings coming off the fingerboard, three across the bridge and four on the tailpiece. Three posts and 4-1/2 tuners on the treble side. Picasso's mando...
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Frankendola for sure. There appear to be 5 strings coming off the fingerboard, three across the bridge and four on the tailpiece. Three posts and 4-1/2 tuners on the treble side. Picasso's mando...
A favorite festival memory: Jim & Jesse at Indian Springs in the 70s, playing Dueling Banjos. Banjo player (Vic Jordan?) broke a string so Jesse finished the number playing both parts, in octaves. ...
And to the Punch Brothers for winning the GRAMMY for Best Folk Album.
Great concept, but don't you think they should have used an up-to-date photo for the cover?
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Well, no. ISO 9000 quality management standards may be the most-known (even if apparently less well-understood), but there are over 20,000 ISO standards. Many of them are not used in this country,...
Since I started this thread, let me elaborate a bit. I'm writing not an an instrument maker, but as a player who's spent a career working for organizations that develop vountary industry standards,...
For the luthiers in the audience, I saw a notice today that China has proposed a new set of ISO standards for musical instruments. I've attached the announcement from ISO, which details the...
That's a great idea. Can't think of another string instrument that has such a range of sounds for different music genres. From the clean ringing string tone of classical mando to the snare drum...
OK, the paper hasn't been recycled yet, so I read the article. Looking for the word I didn't see anywhere - RAP. Music free of melody. Wildly popular, successful, performed and loved. So people...
I saw this article yesterday - the Post is my hometown newspaper, sort of - but didn't read it as I was heading off to play bluegrass under a tree with some other guys, unamplified. So you have a...
Nice to see these paired with the video of Mr Monroe getting his repaired Loar back. This must have been one of the last shows before they were reunited.
Good detective work, though I'd be careful using this record's attributions as definitive. They also show that Bill Harrell wrote "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy," "Pretty Polly," "Flower Blooming in the...
Am I missing something here? Why is this video posted on MC in the first place? For that matter, why does it exist? Unlike some unnecessary things I've watched, I didn't even get a guilty pleasure...
Don't stop now. I followed the link on the MP3 page to http://thebills.ca, where there's a great video on the band. Wish I was out west so I could catch a live show.
"Best of" awards are seldom that. These days they are recognition of commercial success or media attention. IBMA is an organization for people who are in the bluegrass music business, after all. ...
Yep. Scroll back up to message #456 on this page for some details.
Lot of red pants in the 70s. #Here's another one of John with Bill Rawlings of Country Store and Katy Daley) at Potomac Speedway, MD, 1975. #I've added some more to my festivals page at...
Here he is again. Gettysburg, 1974. On stage are Eddy Adcock, John Duffy, John Starling, Tony Rice, Mike Auldrige, Curtis Burch, Tom Gray. I think Johnny Castle's behind Mike. Looks like a Carlton...
One last shot for now. #I've posted more shots here http://picasaweb.google.com/dkshipp/Bluegrass and I'll add more as I scan the old slides. #
This is the Newgrass Revival from a festival at...
Here's the Seldom Scene from that same Callaway festival. Duffy in his Super F*rt t-shirt.
At Callaway (Take-It-Easy Ranch) he was playing a Boone's Farm F5th.
Anybody know the name of the guy with Mr. Monroe? He was a fixture at the festivals I attended, and seemed to know a lot of folks.
Buck White and the girls at the same festival. They were called the "Down Home Folks" then - not "The Whites."
Mr. Baker
Here's another one ...