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nothing finer than the Oregon country fair. Wish I could be there. I was just back in Eugene in May and played at the Sam Bond's Garage Tuesday night jam. Always lots of fun.

For another string instruments version, The Hot Club of San Francisco had it on their first album, I think. There's another Dolphy recording on Conversations that's pretty sweet.

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I was going to try and make the workshop in New Hope. Can anyone give me a review of how it was?
Thanks,
Sam

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I'm planning a trip to the NW and want to know what kind of jams are around. I looked on the web but couldn't find that much, which surprised me. I used to live in Eugene and might try to make...

on that link that Martin sent, there is an interesting photo of an instrument described as a Theophano mandoloncello. It has an interesting looing body. Does anyone know anything about these...

Very cool! I listened to some of the tracks on his myspace.
I love when people come up with their own tbing.

Sounds like you had a lot of fun. And the photos look great too.
Someone's got to tell me though, what this guy's got going on.
Obviously some sort of percussion, but I need to know more!
Where's...

Good stuff. Always love to see Tiny working that e-mando.

John-
Do you have a pic of your Zeidler electric?
I'd love to see what that looks like.
Sam

Minor Blues are a lot of fun. One of my favorites is Oliver Nelson's "Stolen Moments" from the aptly, and maybe a little pretentiously, titled "The Blues and the Abstract Truth." This is a wonderful...

Gil is a really nice guy and if you mention you play jazz mandolin (if you do) then he will probably invite you to play. That Irish pub sounds new since when I lived there.

But again, one of the...

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I used to live in San Miguel. There weren't any jams per se when I was there but things may have changed. Here's some suggestions, though.

A friend of mine named Wade Ashley used to play...

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I used to live in Eugene and man do I miss Sam Bond's. The beer, the people, and the jam. That's the heart of Eugene for me.

There's a guy named Greg Biller who, when I was there, would...

There's a very cool photo of Monroe playing Tony Rice's guitar with Tony looking on from an old Frets Magazine.

i'm goin', you're buyin'

There was a nice piece on Andy Statman on NPR's Weekend Edition this past Sunday. Although the sound clips were mostly of Andy on clarinet, there was one from his new mandolin CD of a very jazzed up...

Can someone explain this a little more? Are you keeping the pinky there to hit it every now and then?
Where does Sam Bush talk about this? In the Monroe dvd?
Also is the Carr tab available...

Thanks Scott for introducing me to this great new-to-me food. I made some for my family last night and they were a big hit. My wife is from Kansas City but had never heard of them. More reason to...

If you open it up to mandolins, I'd be there.
I was going to try to make it anyway but was out of town.
It's nice to see a mass of people are in philly.
Sam

Thanks Roger-
That thing is sweet! I have fantiasies of getting him to make me a five-stringer. Of course my dreams are slightly dampened by these words on the front of his website:
"Due to...

Hey Roger-
Thanks so much.
I'll give that a try.
I appreciate every's help.
I'll give an update once I've got it strung up.
By the way, Roger, do you have a good photo of your Owsley that has a...

I tried a .045 and it seemed really loose. Maybe a .49 would work better...

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I need some help. I have this baby Taylor (23" scale) that I had converted to work as a 5-string tenor guitar - I had the nut and bridge replaced to fit five strings. I tuned it FCGDA, and it...

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I should have specified the tenor guitar. That's a good point about fiddle tunes.

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So I used to play a lot of tenor tuned CGDA. But since an octave and tenor have about the same scale, I was wondering what advantages people find in the cgda versus the gdae tunings - besides...