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flatwound
Oct-22-2004, 9:23am
What kind of mandolin does Andy Leftwitch play?
He is very good at it whatever it is!
Mandomusic
Oct-22-2004, 11:24am
Andy plays a Gilchrist mandolin.
ShaneJ
Oct-22-2004, 2:37pm
I thought it was a Lebeda. What do I know?
Mandobar
Oct-22-2004, 8:24pm
on DIY he is playing a DUDE
mandoJeremy
Oct-22-2004, 8:38pm
He plays a Gilchrist. I am sure that DIY episode is because Lynn Dudenbostel is involved in it and that is not what Andy plays!
Bradley
Oct-23-2004, 5:34am
On his CD he plays a Gilchrist which I believe is Rickys
and also a Heiden mandolin borrowed from Jeff Cowherd of Mandolins.net
Andy is the most underrated player out right now. In time he will be in the limelight though.For anyone who doesnt have his project "Ride" you are missing a treat
ShaneJ
Oct-23-2004, 7:54am
I knew I had seen this (http://www.mandolins.net/lebeda.htm) before. I guess he played a Lebeda earlier.
mandoJeremy
Oct-23-2004, 7:59am
Very strange! Even on the Woodsongs show of Andy he is playing that Gilchrist. Doesn't sound like a good endorsee now does he?
Peakbagr
Oct-23-2004, 8:35am
Is Andy's album, Ride, all-instrumental or are there vocals on it?
Thanks
JSMilano
Oct-23-2004, 9:06am
Ok here it is .......... When I talked to Andy he said he borrows his Gilchrist from a guy that he knows who owns about 7 Gils, 3 Dudes, 6 Loars (or sumthing close to that) and the guy lets Andy borrow it when ever he needs it. He Only played the Dude for the show, He said he couldnt afford it. And he used to play a Lebeda
and I think endorses them so.............. thats the story I got from him
Bryce
ShaneJ
Oct-23-2004, 11:10am
So many mandolins, so little time....:D
Nathan Sanders
Oct-23-2004, 11:35am
Andy's CD is really cool. Go to cmt.com and look him up under Artists. There are four videos available of Andy playing tracks from his CD. The videos are him, a bass player, and guitar player. One video has him on mandolin, the others have him on fiddle.
Bradley
Oct-23-2004, 1:20pm
"Is Andy's album, Ride, all-instrumental or are there vocals on it?"
It is all Instrumental
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adgefan
Oct-23-2004, 3:43pm
Andy has a show at the Woodsongs website :
http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp
He's a great mandolinist. I hate the fact he's just as good (if not better) on fiddle. This world is not a fair place http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
kudzugypsy
Oct-24-2004, 12:46pm
saw andy last night with ricky scaggs. what a powerful fiddler, i hate to know what that "kid" could do on a mandolin! outside of the great picking by kentucky thunder, i thought scagg's show was full of the typical needless rambling that ricky is so disposed to. i bet they didnt do 10 tunes, with him yaking the rest of the time. he was playing the loar though!
Skaggs has two Loars. #One is a July 9, 1923 that he purchased several years ago; #it had been locked in a gun cabinet since the 1950s, and when he first examined it he considering passing on it, but the more he played it, the more it opened up, and after several hours of steady playing he decided to purchase it. #His other one has a more interesting history. #It is a 1924, and he had owned it back in his days with the Country Gentlemen,J. D. Crowe, and Boone Creek. #When Keith McReynolds was ill with MS back in the late 1980s, the Bluegrass community rallied to raise funds for his medical expenses, and Skaggs gave them his Loar for the fundraising efforts, to use in whatever way they saw fit to generate the most money. #It was sold, for close to $30,000, as I recall, with the proceeds going to the McReynolds family. #Then sometime in the last year or so, the mandolin was put up for sale again, and Skaggs was able to buy his original Loar for a second time. #(He was playing it instead of #the 23 this summer.) # I've heard criticisms of him over the years for various things, (usurper to the throne, too big a band, preaching, and so on) but one would be hard pressed to find fault with his generousity.
Scotti Adams
Oct-24-2004, 3:50pm
..If memory serves me right..Skaggs' first Loar has a neck so thin that the truss rod is showing through.
sunburst
Oct-24-2004, 4:11pm
I remember seeing in Tony Williamson's news leter many years ago a Loar mandolin once owned by Mr. Skaggs.
I'm pretty sure he (Skaggs) was credited with having the neck re-shaped 'til the truss rod emerged through the back of the neck.
If that's true, the re-shaping was obviously done by someone that wasn't qualified to be working on such an instrument.