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I noticed a difference in sound, feel and visual appearance in Gilchrist F-5 mandolins from around 2000 (let´s say starting around seria no. 490-500) to the earlier mandolins. Could...

Yes, please:

I noticed a difference in sound, feel and visual appearance in Gilchrist F-5 mandolins from around 2000 (let´s say starting around seria no. 490-500) to the earlier mandolins. Could...

That´s really an interesting description. My access to Ellis mandolins has been extremely limited but what you´ve stated is just what I´ve heard also. Is this "the modern tone" atributed to them (and...

Yes, how sad...

Unbelievable... Wikipedia states, he died in California. His website says he is on a tour in Japan. What are the facts?

He had such incredible musical talent. Had a wonderful stage persona also....

It took me a long time to think about "central time". Even people close to me sometime don´t laugh at my jokes. Originally I thought about something with centipede but failed to come up with...

I do not want to derail your thread since my only contribution is to question the need for aditional amplification itself.

Yet I fail to see why even a lengthy bar needs aditional noise when there...

Yes, Thile does his CT55 (CT stands for... central time [?]). I left him out because I was a little sloppy with the interviews and didn´t want to read all at the moment. So I just looked for the...

I don´t want to rain on your parad but I think that when you are putting up a pa for a session the sound will go downhill.

You, living in Ireland, the grandmother of all session nations, should...

I sometimes feel fatique and sometimes amusement reading pick threads. Especially when a product is hyped as it has been with Red Bear prior to Blue Chip and now Blue Chip whereas nodody ever seems...

Well almeira, some of the information is not correct.

1944 - change from backward scalloped bracing to tapered bracing
1945 - (at least) 1949 tapered bracing (the tapering of the braces changed...

I wholeheartedly second all the best wishes for Roland White. Many happy returns, a blessed birthday and future health and happiness.

I guess I´d rather be in Colorado.

When you live where you live, you don´t have to comb your hair when you pick a mandolin.

... sounds good ...

A 1948 Martin D-28 might bring about 12.000,- USD in today´s market.

There´s no celebrity factor as it was not owned by the ones the auction house claimed that had played it. Since Lester Flatt´s...

Please bear with me when I deviate from the thread´s topic.

I was allways impressed by how Bill Monroe used all of the picking space on his mandolin. He picked close by the bridge for some heavy...

Are you the "Skinner-man"? Hey, post a soundclip and/or a video. Posting pictures alone is not allowed, you know. :)

Naturally not. And we´re all cool.

Sitting down I would still say that an A-model is balanced better. The little point may help the F-model to stay in place. But what if you are Mrs. Griffith......

More power to people like Stevarino!

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I have a friend who "dabbles" in setup. I have to admit that he gets pretty good at whatever he sets his mind to. He certainly...

I hate to contradict but I think that it´s not true.

If you support the F-model mandolin by the body-scroll the mandolin quite surely will be neck heavy. So the F-model wil have a tendency to...

Oh, I forgot to ask... is yours a little more rounded than the "Griffith A-5"?

If it´s just for the good light that you do what you do, I´d like to live where you do.

Soundclips please... Colorado and New Mexico if possible.

Even though I have no experience with Howe instruments, I think that Grandpa Banana does (http://www.vintageinstruments.com/). And if they are as good as Strad-O-Lins they deserve a dedicated...

Bonjour Kallain,

caution is well advised. A late 30ies to early 40ies F-4 Gibson will probably be around 5 - 6 thousand USD. Charles Johnson has two in that pricerange here:...

I think the analogy is a good one. It exemplifies the problem under different circumstances.

The analogy - to my mind - goes as follows:

(above: I do farm as profession ... many have been put...

... more raw and undefined than... his standard F5s...

Does that read "like older Gils" (like 90ies, or late 70ies etc.)? Can you specify, please.