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With fabulous guest appearances from Tony Williamson and Jerry Stewart!

Come down from the cross.
We could use the wood!

[/QUOTE] I first became aware of out-of-tolerance fret spacing on old Gibson instruments a little over 20 years ago. Since then, I have measured quite a few of them; both mandolins and guitars. The...

Somebody needs to present an opposing viewpoint here, there is way too much unanimity for the Mandolin Cafe. Someone needs to grumble that Monroe would not have approved of his classes, or that Lloyd...

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That picture is better, and you are correct about the wrapped string ends covering up parts of the peghead.

Check our this Fairbanks & Cole Clipper model from about 1885:

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Those look...

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Visited the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix today and was very pleasantly surprised to get up close to DAWG's Parrot Loar and a very early Orville Gibson A.

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The...

I didn't know anything about them until my Google feed recommended this nice cover of Church Street Blues. No mando but a nice version-


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O2kqQErjhE

Received ours yesterday, direct deposit. I'm still working and thankfully we don't need the money. So we spent yesterday spreading it around our neighborhood to public library, food bank, homeless...

With all the things wrong with this one, the seller helpfully points out-

a piece of binding is missing.

Well heck, if that is all it needs...

This is a different listing. Original was in Brunswick, Ohio. The second one is in Port Jefferson Station, NY.

And a poem from WB Yeats on "social distancing". Very appropriate for this St Patrick's Day-

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
by William Butler Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,...

Weren’t some of the '20s Gibsons built with some of the frets off a bit?

Teens too. I had a teens A that was off just enough to be really disconcerting. Bob Smakula put a new fingerboard on and it...

With due respect for the decedent Mr. Simon's uncle, there is truly only one "Jascha Heifetz of the _________" fill in the blank.

Gloria Parker, the Yasha Heifetz of the musical glasses,...

For awhile my teenage daughter played a full sized, Lyon & Healy pedal harp. Hauling that beast around created several areas of my body where I had pain. Maybe if I had laid a Barbie Edwards therapy...

M&G is Alaskan for Fish and Game.

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Big vote for Tu-ba-phones. In center of photo, from left to right- 6 string, five string and plectrum Tu-ba-phones. No ringing overtones here- just beautiful, crisp, bright sound.

Robinson Inlays can't touch the Consalvi banjo at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts-

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And check out the peghead-

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I knew Ray Alden but did not know that his dragon design was on an F4. A great combination of a Fairbanks flowerpot peghead inlay and a Bacon Chubby Dragon. Ray's dragon has been working out.

I...

I work in Kent, so if anyone wants me to go by on my lunch hour and give you an "in hand" review, just let me know.

I really enjoyed Tom Waits as the prospector

"And here is Eddie Playbody to pee for you, I mean Eddie Peabody to play for you."

My daughter and I saw The Winding Stream documentary about the Carter Family several years ago at the Cleveland International Film Festival. It was good, with lots of music. I think it is available...

A light coat of orange shellac tones down the white nicely.

To the OP- check out Mandolin Central. Tony Williamson has two beautiful Loars for sale. And What Tony doesn't know about LL ain't worth knowing.

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