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    Re: 3 vs. 4 fingered fingering!

    Years ago I had to learn a bunch of TLAs and ETLAs for a certification.
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    Re: Lacquer vs Varnish

    << I just thought it was interesting that the agility of the production line was able to adapt within 2-3 weeks and not months. >>

    It had to have taken months to get the lacquer finishing systems...
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    Re: Lacquer vs Varnish

    << So you don't think they did any lacquered prototypes and put them out there to see what would happen? >>

    What part of "As soon as the lacquer finishing methods were proven they would have been...
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    Re: Lacquer vs Varnish

    Ahh, Rick. Not only do I know how things work in factories now, I know how things worked in factories way back when.

    Bean counters don't generally do anything with engineers but harass them to do...
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    Re: 3 vs. 4 fingered fingering!

    Three Finger Closed Position. Same theory as Four Finger Closed Position but I use different fretting fingers to make up for no pinky. A little stretch here, rock the hand a bit there and it is...
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    Re: 3 vs. 4 fingered fingering!

    Yes, but not ALL the time the way classical guitar players do.

    There isn't ONE single left hand position for the mandolin, there are at least three.
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    Re: 3 vs. 4 fingered fingering!

    My pinky has become mostly useless now but I could use it quite well for many years. I have discovered that it is quite possible to do without the pinky if necessary. I've even figured out how to...
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    Re: 3 vs. 4 fingered fingering!

    << how many players actually put their thumb on the back of the neck as we're supposed to? >>

    Hopefully not too many. That is a classical guitar thing, not mandolin.
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    Re: Lacquer vs Varnish

    In a production environment lacquer is much more efficient than varnish. The reduction in labor hours and calendar days would have been a big benefit for a company like Gibson. If there wasn't...
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    Re: Eastman 505... Good mando for #1?

    << My expectation are high as I play Huss & Dalton and Santa Cruz's in my guitar selection. >>

    The Eastman 505 is a great mandolin for the money but it isn't in the same class as your guitars....
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    Re: Can the "hump" be prevented?

    << Both Orville Gibson and Lloyd Loar sacrificed convention >>

    I don't look at it as they sacrificed convention, they murdered it with malace aforethought. Both used a lot of what was then state...
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    Re: Can the "hump" be prevented?

    I've become convinced that adjustable truss rods aren't really such a good thing for mandolins. On a banjo there is something around 15 inches of "thin" section of the neck from where the heal thins...
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    Re: $500 to reglue a seam?

    The missing endpin isn't an issue. They fall out.

    The thing that would drive me away from this one is the $500 in repairs requiring "months of careful restoration work". That makes me think there...
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    Re: What if Big Mon played...

    << Or, do you mean the value is effected by who played one like it? That is back to the point of the thread. The instrument manufacturers think so at least, that's why they pay for endorsements. >>
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    Re: "In the White" longevity

    I don't really see how leaving both sides unfinished would make the instrument more at risk to humidity issues than the normal practice of leaving the inside unfinished. I played the Old Man for two...
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    Re: Lacquer vs Varnish

    << From what I can glean, the early nitro lacquers used on cars were opaque colors, not clear. >>

    Duco was a clear finish to which colorants were added. No reason it couldn't have been used clear...
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    Re: Lacquer vs Varnish

    I don't really think it is safe to assume that Loar-signed mandolins would have been finished with lacquer in 1925 or ever. Gibson's switch to lacquer happened after Loar left, it would be just as...
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    Re: Mandolin Cost (price) Variance

    It was only a couple of years ago that those top-name makers were delivering brand new mandolins for prices significantly lower than their mandolins were selling for used. It wasn't the makers who...
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    Re: Lacquer vs Varnish

    If Lloyd Loar thought lacquer was the way to go all those Loar-signed Gibson F5s would be black!
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    Re: Lacquer vs Varnish

    That is exactly what the old guy that first taught me about making and repairing musical instruments did, but with violins. He would hang a completed violin in his shop for six months then string it...
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    Re: "Rest Stroke" at high speed?

    One final (I hope) observation... If the rest stroke was a common thing it wouldn't be so closely associated with one genre of music (Gypsy Jazz) and there wouldn't be so many people who have never...
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    Re: Pick direction question in Cut Time

    I had a teacher many years ago that would rant about 4/4 vs 2/2.

    4/4 has four beats per measure and is counted 12341234. 2/2 has two beats per measure and is counted 1212. In both the whole note...
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    Re: Mandolin Cost (price) Variance

    << If I can buy a Dailey for $7k, and it is good enough for pros such as Adam Steffey, what do I get when I pay an additional $5k to get a Gilchrist? >>

    You would be getting a GREAT deal!
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    Re: How does lacquer age?

    If you beat it up enough over 50 years that it needs to be refinished it wouldn't have mattered whether you had varnish or lacquer on it.

    I have a 70+ year old guitar that was finished with nitro...
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    Re: "Rest Stroke" at high speed?

    Jim, that's why it is so hard to describe. Words like "under", "across", "up", "down" and all the others mean different things to different people. "Down" seems so simple but does it mean towards the...
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