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Prims work well for me and last forever. Helicores respond quite differently to my bow and I have to play a while to adapt to their response.

2 hours and 7 minutes. I don't know why.

I also use GDGD at times. I would prefer AEAE but need to replace the lower strings with ultra light pairs to keep the tension in an acceptable range so GDGD works out OK for general play. To play...

I haven't seen where that is the case although it hasn't been zero here over the last several years, until this morning. The mandolin often goes from 40s to 70s, sometimes 30s to 70s and it has never...

I dare say I could leave my 1917 Gibson A in the trunk of my car at zero degrees, bring it inside the bar at 70 or so, open it up and play right away. By now the finish is what it is and doesn't seem...

Looks great , sounds great- a home run!

Home made music. I don't own a stereo.
Travel- by motorcycle, camper, car, not plane.
Reading- recent best Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of The Road
Wife and Family ( you said no particular order)...

I play mandolin, play clawhammer banjo, and fingerpick the guitar- steel string, folk blues style.
I've played banjo the most for about 40 years. I can't imagine anything more different than...

Funny I've never seen anyone do it, and I am not trapped in my bedroom.

Shocks are different from humidity issues.
Keeping the instrument in the case with a humidifier when you are not using it should take care of wood swelling or shrinking issues.

Avoiding opening...

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I love my somewhat rare sunburst model.

After mandolin, actually before, is clawhammer banjo, then mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and now concertina to get me off the string kick for a little while. Once my butt is out of a chair I like to bike...

I know both fiddle tunes. The slow one and the fast one. It's the 5700 names I can't remember and which key to play in.

Actually it seems like my fingers know about 200-300 tunes but my list...

93208 I have big hands. 1 3/16 works great. At 1 1/4 I cannot easily cover two courses with a fingertip as is sometimes a useful technique.
I think most folks who come to mandolin after playing...

I can play narrow- 1" like old Taterbugs and some Gibsons, but I like wider. 1 3/16 is perfect for me. 1 1/4" is more width than I need. I gain nothing in clarity, speed, clean playing etc. after 1...

DUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDU, repeat.

There's no pix...? The only one is the picture of Ted at the bottom post. Odd, I can always see the pix.

I admire those Gallatins. I think that's all I would ever need.

Someday...

I was there, did you see me, the old fat guy with the gray beard?
Had a great time.
Too bad I didn't see this post until I got home.

So Gibsons of a few years ago and back are antediluvian?

I'll help you move your desk.

Thanks for that. RIP Levon.

Plateaus are how I wound up playing 4 instruments. Plateaued(?) on the Guitar, took up banjo, hit a plateau, took up mandolin, happened again, took up fiddle. Now when I hit the wall I switch...

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Not many sunburst Martin As around. Mine is a '42, adi top, wonderful.

Fabulous!