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Looks like 60226 to me too, and that would make sense. If you have questions, write to the seller, and ask to speak by phone. Many good sellers are happy to oblige. Offer to send your number, be...

This is a look I expect to see in quarter sawn sycamore rather than maple. But a little research shows that this is a case of confusing common names. Most of my experience with 'sycamore' is with...

I'll leave a full translation of Rob's post to some scholar of the barbaric jargon of Oz. But a little research suggests that "wearing a Jackie Howe", means dressing in work pants and carrying a...

I think that the long scale L&H mandolins (13 3/4") should and perhaps do bring a higher price than the 13" shorter scale examples. Among classical players, opinions are mixed, although the best...

Finally got around to speaking to Eamon, and his 'zouk is indeed tuned GDAD, but a half step down: F# C# g# c# low to high.

And here's a second song from that same show, with Steph Coleman, my...

True enough Greg. Anyplace but here, people would just shake their heads if you shared the fact that every time you picked up your instrument, you checked the strap and endpin at the south end......

A slight variation on all the advice above. Wrap a single thickness of tissue paper around the moistened endpin. Spit works well if there's no one to see you. Works on a variety of endpin...

I haven't played a snakehead with a Virzi. But I think it's fair to say that the best of the 1920s snakeheads are for many people, the best sounding oval hole mandolins ever made. So it's not...

I think we ought to have a photo up on this thread for posterity. Anyone have a photo of this instrument up on stage?
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I've just put up another video of Michael Daves and Jen Larson, with Noam Pikelny, and Larry Cook sitting in. I think it's a great example of bluegrass harmony singing. (apologies to you banjo fans...

I was responding to Tim's question in post #14, which I think was asking about the tuning of Eamon O'Leary's instrument in the original post, not the Planxty video. I speculated that it is GDAD but...

The CD is a 'must have' - available here.

And CTMD is back on tour for the lucky folks on the left coast.

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Is he tuned in GDad, but a half step down? F# C# g# c# low to high? Maybe it's easier for someone who has actually played the thing to tell from the video. Or I can just ask Eamon when I get a chance.

With Bertram's help, I found this site with an explanation of Andy's modified waldzither.



I've heard of dadgad guitar tuning of course, but now I see that there's a world of GDad mandolin! I...

Andy Irvine (seen above with Planxty) is such a great singer and player. What can anyone tell me about the instrument he's playing in the video below? I love their arrangement of the Stewball story....

Even though I've been hanging around the Cafe for over six years, I admit that I have never given the zouk a second thought, and didn't even know what CBOM stood for until just now. (Since I figure...

Hey John. I think we agree on most of this. I should have said that not many DO, rather than CAN. And I think that's because of the very factors of cost and value that we're both talking about. ...

Gibson A-4's are still a very good value in my opinion. I think prices for a 100 year old A-4 in very fine condition is under $3K, very close if not considerably less than the price of buying an...

Yes, these are lightly built instruments, with unbraced fairly thin tops, and mahogany necks with no truss rod. And perhaps less than AAA ebony fingerboard. The combination is an instrument that...

I've had the pleasure recently, of helping promote a new recording project by Jen Larson, one of the best bluegrass singers I know of in the NYC area. You may have heard her with the band Straight...

I'd be amazed if Martin made only 55 of that model. I don't think it's especially rare. (I HAVE been wrong before...)

But the koa Martins are super-nice, and a great value for what they are. ...

The Ralph Stanley number? I hardly ever hear that one at BG jams and it's a great gospel number.

I think that the overplayed thing varies a lot from place to place. I sat in at a big jam in KY...

Orville was not the marketing genius. The mandolin orchestra craze was accomplished by the company that bought his product and name, after he was gone. His contribution was the initial invention,...

I can only agree in part with you Mike. If Bill had stayed with his F-7, they'd be worth more than they are now. But the rest of the BG world would have still discovered the Loar-era F-5s, and...

Orville Gibson can rightly be considered the inventor of the 'American mandolin'. It is not a term that is in general use, but I think it should be.