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    Re: A J Polin or Rinzler Fern

    Time to revive this thread ! While I was sorting stuff, I found a note from my ex-wife who said she discussed the Rinzler Fern with Mike Seeger (who was a family's friend). Seeger reported that the...
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    Re: Vintage string packages

    Here's a Gibson mandolin string package that was given to me in the late seventies by Vernon McIntyre. I haven't seen it posted here, if I'm not wrong. From the way it looks, I'm guessing it might be...
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    Re: Loar at Greg Boyd's.

    No Tom, I probably was not quite clear enough. The Fern that Ken saw with the shape case was another, later Fern (# 85146, I just checked), which I sold to purchase the Rinzler Fern. The Rinzler Fern...
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    Re: Loar at Greg Boyd's.

    Yes it was. The case was in incredible condition, still had the key! But it did not offer much protection, the instrument was moving a lot inside the case, so I carried it most of the time in a...
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    Re: Loar at Greg Boyd's.

    Ken, are you refering to the time you came visiting me with Lynn in Johnson City around 2000? if so, you might be confusing the Fern I had then with the Rinzler that I own now. The Fern I had was a...
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    Re: Gibson H-1 mandola project

    Wonderful job, not only the restauration part is awesome, but the mandola sounds great. It's always nice to see an instrument like that preserved and brought back to life. Thank you.
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    Re: Audie Blaylock & Redline, Poughkeepsie, NY

    Sorry I misunderstood.
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    Re: Audie Blaylock & Redline, Poughkeepsie, NY

    I think the banjo player, as all the other musicians, is excellent. Obviously these guys did not have the same mix in their monitors as the mix on the PA. Blame is to put on the soundman in the hall...
  9. Re: History of the Geib Musical Instrument Case Company

    Wonderful article, Loudloar, i've learned tons of things. Thanks for sharing.
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    Re: Bill Monroe Mandolin Setup

    I had the chance to play Monroe's mandolin in 1981. What surprised me mostly after hearing and reading so many horror stories about the manly action was the fact that the action was fairly normal at...
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    Re: Tony Rice: Must-Have CD's?

    I don't think I saw Larry Rice's first solo album either. "Mr Poverty", great record, I don't know if this has been reissued on CD, if it's not the case, I hope they will. I loved the duet vocals...
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    Re: 81489 f5

    Darryl, Joe, this is great, fascinating stuff, please keep it coming!
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    Re: 81489 f5

    [QUOTE=Joe Spann;1048074] Having said that, there is nothing to prohibit it from being constructed from older parts. The same Gibson employees who worked with Lloyd Loar in the period of 1922-1924...
  14. Re: flying with mandolin and violin in same case

    I flew many times with violin and mandolin in two different cases, and rarely had problems, except on low cost flights with strict policies when they absolutely refuse a second hand luggage (in which...
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    Re: French Bluegrass?

    I agree. Respect to a style implies a deep knowledge of it. I just believe that before experimenting, one needs to know the genre as deeply as possible, and I feel that this experimentation is...
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    Re: There's a '26 Fern in the classifieds

    Gary, I'm referring to the set of pictures you can view by pasting the link in the ad, not the picture featured in the add, where the peghead is cut. If you look at the picture of the Fern, the top...
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    Re: French Bluegrass?

    That's a good point, and I gave it a lot of thought over the years. To each his own philosophy, but I always had a hard time mixing up traditions. I remember with terror about the 80s and the avent...
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    Re: French Bluegrass?

    Hedgehog, you might be surprised to know that the French also write about such topics. Coal mining, civil war, love lost and found. My passion for bluegrass and for American history in general is...
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    Re: French Bluegrass?

    Sorry I'm finding and joining this thread a little late. To answer the OP, I must say I agree with Philippe, there is no such thing as "French Bluegrass". Everyone I know overhere playing that music,...
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    Re: There's a '26 Fern in the classifieds

    I'm wondering why the top part of the Fern is not present. Everything else looks right on that peghead, but the fern is similar to the later ones when they moved to the horizontal logo. The Gibson...
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    Re: Loar F5s and the Pros

    Probably so.
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    Re: Loar F5s and the Pros

    I don't believe Jack ever owned a Loar. I spent a lot of time playing and discussing mandolins with him when I worked at ETSU. He was playing a Hutto at that time (and a good one!), and before that,...
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    Re: Loar F5s and the Pros

    Right. A dozen or so, according to the Archives. And most of them bear the same FON : 8231. It is fascinating to think that it took Gibson almost three years to get rid of the last Loars! That Spann...
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    Re: Loar F5s and the Pros

    So that would mean that between Dec. 1924 and early '28 when the first batch of Ferns came out, the only F-5s that came out the Gibson factory were Loars (signed or unsigned), that had remained...
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    Re: Loar F5s and the Pros

    Now, that raise an important question : should we use the manufacturing time or the shipping time to date an instrument? The Spann book makes a clear distinction between the FON which indicates the...
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