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    Re: Ovation USA closes down

    My memory of the Ovation Company in New Hartford is connected to the deep pool (known as Factory Pool) on a sharp bend in the Farmington River, in the catch and release area where one could fish all...
  2. Thread: ABC notation

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    Re: ABC notation

    Anyone know how many MC regulars that can read abc? It has to be less than 5%.

    In some ways, converter apps have made it too easy, like what (SATNAV and) GPS did for shooting the stars with a...
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    Re: What song made you want to play Mandolin?

    Ry Cooder's Billy The Kid. I too waited a long time to take it up.
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    Re: Fiddlel Tune Chord Book?

    www.pegramjam.com
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    Re: Avi Avital at Carnegie Hall

    I met Avi last Friday at checkin at Tegel Airport in Berlin. In the checkin line, he looked back at me and said "looks like a lot of mandolins on this flight," as he had two cases. We talked about...
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    Re: Guild mandolin strings

    And the factory in New Hartford, CT is next to the best trout river in the state.
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    Re: In Case humidifiers

    I use these. You can cut them smaller to fit your cases. They are gel-based, so they don't leak water, and they aim for 50% rh in the case.
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    Re: Don Julin east coast workshops

    This Dummie will be there.
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    Goat Rodeo Tour

    We saw the Goats on Thursday at Tanglewood, in Western MA, on the first of a 12(?) date national tour. The audience was mostly classical series ticket holders, with no experience with bluegrass. They...
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    Joe Walsh & Courtney Hartman

    This from a workshop at Grey Fox last month:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_aHpcUMCZY
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    Re: Grey Fox anyone?

    Looking forward to this, hoping for decent weather...
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    Re: Band name needed.... SOON!

    I think the best names come from sources not expected, at times not anticipated. Our bass player's mother, a native German speaker, never picked up a lot of vocabulary in her 30 years here. When she...
  13. Re: Don Stiernberg and Dudu Maia at Old Town School April 20

    Saw Dudu in the Trio Braziliero last night in a house concert. The Trio is Dudu, Douglas Lora on 7 string, and Alexandre Lora on padeiro. They mostly played from their recently released CD, (which is...
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    Re: Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau

    Awesome review in the NYT today, certainly makes me wish I'd been there:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/arts/music/chris-thile-and-brad-mehldau-at-bowery-ballroom.html?_r=0
  15. Re: Consider the Bouzouki: I never did, until I saw this!

    Not to take anything from those mentioned above, consider John Doyle, frequent accompanist to Liz Carroll (cf, Lost in the Loop, or Island of Woods), here on bouzouki:
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    Re: Setlist for a Memorial

    Thank you all for the well wishes and suggestions. Inishere is a beautiful tune, as is Farewell to Ireland. I'm also partial to Liz O'Carroll's Island of Woods, but all tend to push us into the sad...
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    Setlist for a Memorial

    Hi All;

    My mother has asked that I play some celtic tunes at her memorial mass next month. She has lived a long happy life, and in the mass we want everyone to celebrate - perhaps wistful but not...
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    Re: My Pegasus case -- One year review and photos

    Love my Peg. It reminds me of the Lotus Elan that I never had, and doesn't remind me of the Fiat Spider that I did. Should I explain that? Let's just say that it still looks great and works perfectly...
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    Re: Experience with MA or RI shops?

    Hi even:

    I live in Dartmouth, MA, and would be glad to help you navigate a mandolin purchase. I have purchased dozens of mandolins over the past 10 years, and I have no financial interest in any...
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    Re: Irish mandolin web site: Playing Mandolin

    Mick,

    Thank you for launching and sustaining this very helpful website. The session that I sit in with pairs Within a Mile of Dublin with My Love is in America, and the two pipers have their...
  21. Thread: Loar at Gruhns

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    Re: Loar at Gruhns

    Think about what the seller is going to get. $135k minus 20% consignment commission, or GG would have purchased it intending to make more than 25%. That's quite a haircut.
  22. Re: How would you play "Aerials" by System of a Down?

    On a mandola or mandocello., C is your friend.
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    Re: Mandolin in Cold Car?

    Back in the 1910s and 1920s, when Gibson was making and shipping tens of thousands of mandolins in unheated train cars throughout the year, they must have figured out that cold doesn't hurt mandolins.
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    Re: Skip Gorman - Monroesque

    Skip responded quickly to my inquiry.

    "Truth is that most of that MONROESQUE recording was done with a top-of-the-line Japanese Ventura that I totally faked up in the 80's. I paid $300. for it ,...
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    Re: Skip Gorman - Monroesque

    I'll ask him about this.
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