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I'm perfectly happy to play my old Gibson oval hole A without a strap, but my Collings A just doesn't feel right without a strap there to support it. Something to do with the weight and balance, I...

It would be a shame to think that he just parked it in the closet after college. But of course, Who knows, 1923, Mr. Koch may have just decided to treat himself to a new Lloyd Loar for graduation!

Please throw my name in the hat. Thanks.

Mike: While my experience isn't totally current, I did live and work in Haiti and had some good experiences there back in the 80's. I found that there were many different influences there, but...

Sad, another good one is gone. By way of mando content, I have heard Ry Cooder play mando on a few of his cuts.

I believe Mando Medic plays an MF5 in his band Emerald Valley Boys and it does just fine.

I have a charango that someone gave to me. It seems to be a pretty nice one and is quite loud - the body is carved from a single piece of some light colored wood and doesn't have much in the way of...

After idly entering a website address from a newsgroup, I came across this scan. Though the print gives his history as playing a ukalele (typical), this appears to be a Fender Mandocaster. Can't...

I'm not a native there, but on a visit 3 weeks ago, i paid a visit to The Podium in Dinkytown (University of Minn. campustown) and was pretty impressed with their stock (especially guitars)....

Thanks to all who posted. Actually, I wrote that post late at night after the experience, just to put down all of the things that I was thinking, while it was still fresh. It's not that I spent a lot...

Sitting with the wife tonight, when we suddenly heard sirens we had not heard before. At first we thought they were just testing the tsunami sirens, but soon we got a phone call that it was genuine,...

While I've had all of the usual mis/preconceptions, more recently I've encountered a new one. I got a couple of Ken Cartwright's stickers with the evolution spoof sometime back and put them on my...

"Don't listen to anybody's opinion about which is better" - opinions aren't always a bad thing - sometimes an experienced player will spot structural issues or other problems that a beginner might...

I went to McCabe's for the first time recently. I hadn't been to LA for 15-20 years and wanted to kill some time near the airport before driving across the city, so found McCabes as one of the local...

OregonMike - where are you from? I met someone with an A1 like that at the the Evan Marshall workshop in Port Orford 2 years ago. I too have an A1 like that, although youthful excesses have left the...

Here's a site that talks about the Godfather mandolin:

http://www.themomi.org/museum/godfather/enter.html

Rick

Another cool old Marshall Tucker tune is 24 Hours At A Time - get that mixolydian thang goin' http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

I was in a local instrument shop a few weeks back and I saw an electric guitar that was made like that, with a bed pan. The maker was marketing the instrument as a s(h)itar....

Jim:
Welcome to the wonderful world of mandolin. You can't really go wrong with a Collings. I also have a Collings A and I have a (approx.) 1" saddle leather strap that buttons on the endpin at one...

aries753:
When I lived there any work that I needed done on my mandos I took to Rosewood Instruments and they did a pretty good job of it there. Not sure who's doing their work nowadays since I've...

I played mando in the band following his in the band scramble at the Gorge festival last year. After they got done, I wondered whether to just put my mandolin back in the case and walk away or what....

So wouldn't the Epiphone Windsor technically be the first F5 copy? Although not a perfect imitation, it is certainly derived.

Jim:
Sounds great! The mandolin is a bit heavy in the mix sometimes, though and can tend to overpower the guitar especially. I downloaded it to my home pc and it would only play in mono for some...

How about little statuettes of Bill Monroe? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif