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"Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make heads nor tails of it."

(Duck Soup)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdoGVgj1MtY

This floated across my FB News Feed this morning and I had to purloin it to share here. I don't recall seeing it before. My apologies if it's a repeat.

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I can't find any info about the...

If this has already been posted, I missed it. Here's a shot of women workers in the Kalamazoo Gibson factory during WWII. This is from the new book about Gibson's banner guitars made mostly by women...

Really fine gesture drawings, Roland. I know from my own frustrating experience that it's very hard to capture that much in such a short time. I'm really impressed that you got the curves of the...

This new-fangled technology is definitely convenient for finding like-minded folks. Again, not to state the obvious, but the Cafe fulfills that role for a lot of folks.

I'm not too familiar with...

Vannilla,

The Grammy's are the highest profile music-industry awards in the United States. Obviously they are not revered or even respected by everyone, but the do carry some caché in the...

Frank has several pieces about the uses of epoxy at frets.com, including an essay on the West System and controlling its thickness and viscosity via additives. There are other articles showing how to...

My go-to guys for all serious instrument repairs are Frank Ford at Gryphon in Palo Alto and Paul Hostetter down in Bonny Doon.

There are many fine repair people out there, but very few have done...

Lovely! I really like the simple, elegant aesthetic. Very saz-like in appearance.

I can see how the instrument would be quite loud under the ear, but how's the projection out front or across the...

Anyone yearning for symantic consistency in the monikers applied to streams of popular culture is doomed to heartbreak.

Pick a typical expression of any musical genre from 50 years back--jazz,...

As far as scrolls gone wild, that Ibanez is tame.

This one explores the scroll in more dimensions:

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The discussion of whether Pete Seeger coined the expression "hammer-on" got me thinking about the question of when now-common phrases first entered the parlance.

When I first started learning...

AEAC# is often called "Black Mountain" tuning or more commonly "Calico" tuning. There are many tunes traditionally played in the tuning, including "Lost Indian." the tune Leslie Keith acknowledged as...

Although there are legions of mandolinists I admire and who inspire, I've probably been influenced more by bass players and fiddlers than by my fellow eight-string pickers. For backup lines, for...

Just a thought, but have you done a thorough inspection to make sure that there are no serious structural issues impacting the tuning?

A loose brace, sinking top, loose neck joint, or seam...

Hey Restless,

In my experience, the shape (thickness, profile, point, bevel, etc.) of the pick has about as much impact on the tone as the material itself. To a point, anyway, the same material...

Terry Gross is rebroadcasting her wonderful interview and in-studio live performance featuring the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, with Jody Stecher playing fabulous mandolin along with Keith Little on...

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"I am not a number, I am a free man!"

I spend a fair amount of time around start-up and emerging businesses and entrepreneurs.

One key difference between the businesses that make it and those (99%) that don't is that the successful...