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No, not normal and not acceptable. Contact the company and send them the photos. Ask for another top. If they don't cooperate you can challenge the charge if you used a credit card to pay. Good luck.

I haven't read all 6 pages of posts but I did see one where you mentioned Lloyd LaPlant. As you and he are both in Minnesota it would be easy for you to give him a call and drive up to Grand Rapids...

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Both Matt Thompson & Lisa Fugle in the band Monroe Crossing double on fiddle & mandolin in their live performances.

Check eBay on a regular basis. If you look at the completed listings you'll see a clamp sold recently for $180.

I like to hear things like" Here's a song we learned..., Here's a song by...., This next song, xxxx, feartures YYYY on mandolin...

Just going from one song to the next with no verbiage inbetween...

An easy change to make is to change where you normally pick the strings. A little closer to the headstock. near the extension of the fretboard, will make a big difference in volume. Playing closer to...

To satisfy both sides to this argument I recommend that those that want to leave their tuners on the instrument clamp them on so the tuner body is on the underside of the headstock. You'll have to...

The video might be used to give the mandolin the initial test. If you don't like the sound you hear there, it probably won't be much better in person. If you like what you hear then you can take the...

A Cafe moderator could have closed this thread back at #103 but it wasn't done. Why? Are there more caps to be given away? Make mine the same color as Scott's.

Yes, why was the video removed?

If it works for you, stay with what you've been doing. You have two extra strings to change now too. In an interview, Peter Ostroushko, one of the better U.S. mando players, said he changes his...

What year is the A4?

John Fellman has a new book described here: http://photo.johnfellman.com/mtm.htm#img/_8206475.jpg The book describes Minnesota's best guitar builders. One of them happens to be Lloyd LaPlant of Grand...

Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza. A 2 CD set with all the best bluegrass mandolinists still alive. You can look it up!

I heard a Monroe interview where he was asked how many fiddle players he had in the band over the years. His response was that "it was probably around 75 but during all that time I had only one...

For your enjoyment, here's a look at Don LaPlant's #6 -- all red with a one piece back.

My advice is to think a little ahead to the next mandolin you might buy. You want to trade up with a mandolin that has held its value or one you can sell for a reasonable amount of money without...

Not bad for a kid that quit his piano lessons at age 5! Do a Google search on "Michael Feinstein bio."

"An error occured, please try again later." or "Embedding disabled by request, Watch on YouTube." are two messages I receive when attempting to view a number of these videos. Can anyone tell me...

Listening to the Carter family and The Monroe Brothers recordings is one of my favorite pasttimes.

I'm wondering what would be the official name for this type of music? I wouldn't call it...

Thanks for the photo. I thought this thread had seen its last post almost 4 years ago!

Peter Ostroushko told me he changes strings every couple of years. He wasn't kidding.

Monroe Crossing has a website at http://www.monroecrossing.com/. They have a schedule posted there.

Looking at the guitar on the left, I believe that is also a LaPlant instrument.

As Ron Thomason has said (many times): "We give these bluegrass songs different names so people can tell them apart."