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    Check out the photo on the home page
    http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html....ll_.JPG

    I think the caption should be....
    "Now let me see if I can tap tune this thing."
    "Ancora lmparo", said Michelangelo when he was in his 80's (I am still learning)

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    "Take This Hammer"

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    Dawg research lab tech experiements with new XXX-Heavy prototype pick.

    or

    Tone Fiends...
    Hammer-on as effortlessly as Chris Thile with the new "Wengen Whacker".

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    A twisted version of "hammering on"!!!!!!
    "Look upward; He is coming back!"

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    When asked why she kept hitting herself in the knee with a hammer, the aspiring mandolin player replied "Because it feels so good when I stop."
    Andy Hodge

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    "Now to tweak the intonation...
    My dad always said that you could do anything -- if you have the right tools.)

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    But they told me it was a banjo
    "Mandolins are an Illness" Conrad Deislar

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    Only wimps use fireplace pokers.

    or

    Oh, I can make it bark...

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    Let's see if Charlie Derrington is still on top of his game...




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    I'm just tuning it for you honey. Yeah....... just tuning it.
    I wandered again to my home in the mountains....

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    so, this is who you've been spending all your spare time with? what's her name?!?!?!

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    It sounded so nice when nailing it together.
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    "You promised no more than 3 mandolins, whats this?.....and you bought me a TOASTER for Christmas?!?"
    I borrowed this but it is still as powerful
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    We don't need no stinkin' luthier setup. I can tweek it myself.

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    "If I had a hammer, I hammer in the mornin'..."
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    Oh this nine pound hammer
    Is a little too heavy....
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    Gibson bashing?

    (sorry but I used this on the headstock bumping thread too)
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    Moving parts: Hammer - 0, Mandolin - 8, Computer - fuggedaboudit.

    "Play THIS."

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    "I'll teach you to pay more attention to that ukelele than to me"!!



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    "Put down that accordian or the mandolin gets it."

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    The impending certainty of unhappiness and dischord

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    HOW much ??
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