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Along with these bios, I like to recommend reading "Born Fighting" by James Webb. It's a history of the Scott's Irish. This is a fundamental root culture of the people who make this music. Reading it...

Check the Central Texas Bluegrass Association website.

www.centraltexasbluegrass.org/

It lists the week's Bluegrass activities. There are some SXSW venues listed. I recommend The Austin...

I've often noted south central Texas is a good area to check out mandolins. Between Fiddlers Green in Austin and Guitar Tex in San Antonio you can have a great time checking out mandos.

While...

Good news, they changed their mind. The manager had told us his boss made the decision. The boss's boss took a look at the Tuesday revenue numbers and reversed course. Not everybody buys dinner but...

Yesterday it would not come up at all. Today it comes up but it will not scroll so you can't read down the page. Maybe it's in some sort of maintenance phase and will be working again soon.

Weber Gallatins are unbound.

I'm not sure about the question about the back. It's a dark chocolate satin finish over a one piece back. I thought it was classy that they still carved in the scroll...

This is part of a longer thread in the Miscelaneous section. Got a suggestion to put this part in the picture section. So here it is...

A while back, Guitar Tex (San Antonio, TX) sent an e-mail...

That's a dead link. The Central Texas Bluegrass Association covers the whole area on their website.

Last night the restaurant where we have had a Tuesday night jam for many years gave us notice that this would be our last month. I guess it is fair to say that all things pass but it doesn’t make the...

It's a nice sunny afternoon in San Antonio, a good time to review winter mandolin experiences.

Visit with Mike Fuller – Fuller’s Vintage Guitar

Business drug me through points East that...

Guitar Tex (San Antonio) has a nice new Weber Madison with a black face. The have pictures on their website.

I've played it and it's real nice. It's a "Logan Weber". A Madison is an F Style with...

Nothing beats personal discovery in music theory. This relationship is the fundamental building block to 5 chords everywhere on the neck.

Take you Eastman and do an onsite comparison. Also take somebody to play them for you. Part of the power of an f-hole mandolin is to project the sound out and away.

My daughter and son in law gave me the E (for electric) version of the 510 for Christmas. It's not very loud compared to my Weber but I think it's on pat with the Mid Mo (ne Big Muddy) I started...

My Gallatin Mandola is every bit the quality build as my Bighorn. Bling and material separate them, that's all. As a custom order, they kept in touch during the process.

Her mama used to take to the area jams when she was younger. She was super good then but paced her playing to the group. Better, obviously, but gentle in her superior talent. She always left a wake...

Last night I got all my kids, kids significant others and grandkids in one spot for a Christmas eve party. It was great. Nothing fancy just baked chicken and sides. It was the best time I've had in a...

WSM for the Grand Old Opry - Live!

OP mentioned Pandora, so I'll mention MOG. It's subscription service that has a radio function too. Its radio funtion lets you vary the mix from 'desired artist...

I had already downloaded this on MOG and was loving it already. Will be acquiring a permanent copy.

One of the things that gives me endless fascination with the mando is the endless symmetry. FFCP relies on that for movable scales.

I assume most of you have noted how the forms interlok and you...

When I dropped DirecTV for Uverse I lost the RFD channel and thus my access to Marty's show and the other music shows I liked (like the Cumberland Highlanders).

Tonight I was channel trolling....

Not 'per-Bedell' rather 'Logan Webers'. I have two myself.

Didn't we have a thread saying the Breedlove mandos were getting some design enhancement? Early Bruce impact?

I have the Jethro book and I've worked through it some but I have had better luck implementing three chord shapes with Joe Carr's book School of Mandolin: Rhythm Changes . It's $15 retail, less...

Too bad you didn't have a tuner with you. I always carry one when I go instrument looking. Particularly at GC because, from my experience, they have bought into the 'tune them down a half-to-whole...

My main non-musical hobby is model airplanes. R/C now but I started with U-control over 50 years ago. My activity level waxes and wanes but I've not been without some model stuff during this time....