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    I just found out that astronaut Steve Robinson plays the mandolin!!

    http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/...trobinson.html
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    An uncle of mine seemed to remember that Joey Bishop played the mandolin. Sure enough a web search turned up this pic, of Joey Bishop with the Lennon Sisters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by (Olpicker @ May 07 2007, 21:50)
    Comedian Joey Bishop used to play occasionally on his talk show. In fact Homer & Jethro were frequent guests. Bishop played an F style Goya. On one show Jethro presented Bishop with a new Gibson F-5, a gift from Gibson. I believe this was in the 1970s.

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    Sorry, you already mentioned this. Well anyway its a cool picture.
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    Pretty strange.....
    Bishop died Wednesday night of multiple causes at his home in Newport Beach, publicist and longtime friend Warren Cowan said Thursday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by (Tom C @ Oct. 18 2007, 14:57)
    Pretty strange.....
    Bishop died Wednesday night of multiple causes at his home in Newport Beach, publicist and longtime friend Warren Cowan said Thursday.
    The last of the rat pack. He was pretty funny.
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    Two new additions to this thread I found over on the women with mandolins thread.

    There is a video of Natalie Portman being shown a few mandolin chords - its up on YouTube (thanks to plami).

    And there is a picture of Mary Astor playing mandolin (thanks to martinjonas). For you young'uns, she was a movie star back in the black and white days - my best memory being in Maltese Falcon.
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    Can't believe over 5 pages no one's done this yet, but I hear the famous Bill Monroe played a little mandolin
    Seriously, though, fun thread!
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    Quote Originally Posted by (JeffD @ Dec. 04 2007, 12:42)
    There is a video of Natalie Portman being shown a few mandolin chords - its up on YouTube (thanks to plami).
    Good Lord...

    Ms. Portman just seems to keep finding new ways to remain at the top of my list of "girls I have the biggest crushes on".

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    Quote Originally Posted by (chipbooth @ May 07 2007, 11:27)
    This looks like a good opportunity for someone to post a link to the Milla Jovovich picture agin
    I see someone else posted the pic in question, but here is another, if not less controversial pic of Milla with her Flatiron...

    Additionally, here is a link to a video of her singing a Ukranian folk song on YouTube. (The video is actually a photo slideshow, but there might be mandolin playing in the background -- but I could be wrong.)



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    There is one example missing from this impressive list, it seems.


    Or would anyone say Sir Paul is famous for playing the mandolin?

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    Quote Originally Posted by (Peter Hackman @ Dec. 04 2007, 16:24)
    Or would anyone say Sir Paul is famous for playing the mandolin?
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    That looks like a 1967 F5E (factory electric)but I've never seen an F5 with the extension cut off like the F12 and having a gold Humbucking pickup. They usually had the black P90s with full fingerboard. This would be a very rare F5. I bet the family still has it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by (JeffD @ Dec. 06 2007, 19:49)
    Quote Originally Posted by (Peter Hackman @ Dec. 04 2007, 16:24)
    Or would anyone say Sir Paul is famous for playing the mandolin?
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    To us, he is a famous guy playing a mandolin; to the general pop-listening public, he is an ex-Beatle playing a left-handed Ukelele. #



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    Stan Musial played a A-4 or so I've been told and would play it traveling between games on the bus or train.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike McCoy View Post
    Paul Gauguin played mandolin.
    i didn't know that. here's a self portrait by gaugin with mandolin:
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    Quote Originally Posted by barney 59 View Post
    Stan Musial played a A-4 or so I've been told and would play it traveling between games on the bus or train.
    Interesting, I didn't know that. As some of you may know, Stan the Man was also a very accomplished harmonica player and he even authored a basic harmonica instruction book.

    Years ago, my wife and I had the privilege of sitting with Stan and his wife at a charity dinner. I got to hear Stan and Richard Hayman, who was then the pops conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, do a harmonica duet mini-concert. It was pretty incredible. I also won a door prize, which was an autographed copy of Stan's instruction book and a "Stan Musial" signature harmonica, both of which I still have. So it was a very memorable evening!
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    Stan the Man was a man on the road. I guess he picked easy to carry instruments . I had heard that his A-4 was for sale once and when I checked it out there was no real provinance, but it was one celebrity instrument that caught my fancy.

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    Clarence Nash, the voice of Donald Duck has a picture of him posing with his F4. and he looked just like Walt D.

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    Quote Originally Posted by billkilpatrick View Post
    here's a self portrait by gaugin with mandolin:
    That's great! Very cool. Hey, I think I've just found my new avatar!

    Wait! What? D'oh!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim MacDaniel View Post
    To us, he is a famous guy playing a mandolin; to the general pop-listening public, he is an ex-Beatle playing a left-handed Ukelele. #
    This is from a guy whose avatar is Bugs Bunny playing a - a - oh, never mind!

    Hey, waitaminnit! What cartoon character is more famous than Bugs Bunny? And clearly he plays a - a - oh, never MIND!



    PS: Pogo missed the group portrait shoot because he had a gig - playing mandolin, natch!
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    ah-yeh!...
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    Kermit, Teddy Roosevelt's son played mandolin.

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    From http://anecdotage.com/ -

    Luciano Pavarotti fell in love with vocal music as a young man. One day, he plunked himself down in a chair in the courtyard of the apartment house, played a small mandolin and sang at full throttle for a gaggle of neighbors who tossed candy and nuts in approval. How old was the future tenor? He was five years old.
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    OK folks, we can add Al Capone to the list.

    According to the article linked in that thread, "Capone could read music and liked to play a banjo and a mandola, which is like a mandolin, only bigger".


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    I saw a recent picture of comic actor Thomas Lennon (Lt. Jim Dangle on "Reno 911") out of character, playing a 17-fret tenor banjo, holding what appeared to be a barred A major chord in GDAE. I think that would count for this list.

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