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Sep-16-2020,
11:30am
allenhopkins
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To Cafe Members on the US West Coast
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Smoke's hit the East Coast, a high thin haze, supposedly around 20,000 feet in the air. Reports that it's reached Europe today.
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Sep-16-2020,
11:23am
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Tuning issue
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It's Rob Meldrum; read this recent thread, it'll give you an e-mail address to contact him. He'll send Cafe members a free e-book covering "DIY"...
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Sep-15-2020,
10:04pm
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Octave Mandolin - capo question
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Capo-ing that high often involves a lot of retuning to get to concert pitch, and then re-re-tuning when the capo comes off. At least that's been my...
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Sep-15-2020,
2:35pm
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Bequeathing instruments to charity in a will
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I'd be a bit more likely to "go local"; here in Rochester the Rochester Education Foundation sponsors a "Donate An Instrument" program to provide...
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Sep-13-2020,
1:58pm
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Still cant play a break!
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It'll come when it comes. Don't pressure yourself, or set too high a standard for yourself. Practice playing melodies that you can play -- whether...
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Sep-13-2020,
1:48pm
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To Cafe Members on the US West Coast
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My experience has been that we learn to tolerate, even accept, the climatic conditions where we've lived for extended periods. Here in Rochester we...
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Sep-13-2020,
1:24pm
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George Washburn Mandolin Model M-1S/TS
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If you paid around $200 you did OK. Solid machine-carved spruce top (according to the specs), laminated maple back and sides. The fingerboard is...
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Sep-12-2020,
4:38pm
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9 string ID
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From Hobgoblin Music FAQ's: The English guitar and the Scottish guittar are one and the same instrument. The term 'English guitar' was invented in...
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Sep-11-2020,
1:23pm
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Identify Vintage Mandolin Banjo
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Headstock shape looks kinda Stromberg to me, but I don't know what tone ring (if any) Stromberg used In mandolin-banjos. You might also try a...
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Sep-11-2020,
1:03pm
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recommend me an acoustic bass
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Hey, some of us are "bass nerds" as well. I've done a fair number of bass gigs, mostly playing country dances, and am the "official house bass...
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Sep-10-2020,
2:36pm
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recommend me an acoustic bass
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I made a washtub bass senior year at college. I was, of course, influenced by Fritz Richmond's playing with the Charles River Valley Boys and the...
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Sep-09-2020,
8:14pm
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Well set up beater mandolin??
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What's your budget? If it's <$100 I think you may be outta luck. Cheapest one I could find with a reliable shop set-up was a Rover RM-50B at...
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Sep-08-2020,
10:21pm
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recommend me an acoustic bass
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1. Unamplified "uke basses" are nearly inaudible, in my experience. If your criterion is "no amps," I don't think one of those would work for you. ...
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Sep-08-2020,
12:45pm
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Bowlback make/model?
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I've heard good reports about Intermountain Guitar & Banjo.
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Sep-07-2020,
3:26pm
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Is this how it starts?
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Yeah, I get that: you think you only need one airplane, then you want a "beater" Piper Cub to take camping, then you think you want something...
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Sep-07-2020,
3:08pm
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Martin Copy--Rokkomann
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Some info about Ryohei Tahara, the "Rokkomann" brand, etc., in a 2008 thread on Harmony Central about Maya guitars, another label associated with...
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Sep-06-2020,
2:18pm
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Mohawk mandolin
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Could this be a clue? Mohawk brand guitar strings made in Germany, attributed to c. 1948. There also apparently was a Mohawk brand of instruments...
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12 replies | 2969 view(s)
Sep-05-2020,
9:33pm
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Vintage Russian mandolin
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Similar to the one found in Finland, discussed in this 2012 thread.
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Sep-05-2020,
9:26pm
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Papa Smurf
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+1 on Bernie Lehmann.
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Sep-05-2020,
9:25pm
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Cafe User: Br1ck
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And then, there's me -- often wrong, but never in doubt...
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Sep-03-2020,
9:14pm
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Which Budget Fingerstyle Guitar?
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Gotcha. All the discussion of Taylors and Martin OM's went to my head.
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Sep-03-2020,
4:34pm
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Which Budget Fingerstyle Guitar?
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If you got the $$$, you might consider Huss & Dalton slope-shoulder or "concert" models. I've been consistently impressed by H & D construction and...
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Sep-02-2020,
1:23pm
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Cumbus Mandolin
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Maybe something like this one: Later: Sorry, shoulda checked out the link first; what I found is one of the "banjo" cumbuses, which is...
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Sep-02-2020,
1:20pm
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1907 Torch & Wire with Virzi?
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time time said old king tut is something i ain t got anything but -- Don Marquis, Certain Maxims of Archy (the literary cockroach), 1927 I...
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Sep-02-2020,
1:04pm
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Banjolin identification help please
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Or it might not have been there at all. As NickR points out, Houghton started using the "lion couchant" mark in the 1930's and this one could be...
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Sep-02-2020,
12:51pm
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Info about bean blossom mandolin
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Looks like this BM-2 currently on eBay, so I think you're right about the model ID. Info would be, Asian-made all-plywood mandolin, from the "Bean...
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Sep-02-2020,
12:33pm
allenhopkins
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Please Help Identify how old this Mandolin is
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Alternating maple and rosewood ribs are more generally found on pre-1900 instruments, though not exclusively; I have a Washburn mandola that has the...
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21 replies | 2337 view(s)
Sep-01-2020,
12:06am
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Trinity College TM 325
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Just thank the mandolin deities, that you could find a dealer with three octave mandolins to test-drive. There are whole sub-continents where you...
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Aug-31-2020,
1:56pm
allenhopkins
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Banjolin identification help please
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The "waisted" headstock somewhat resembles a Houghton, but the Houghtons I've seen have had the little lion emblem and "British made" on the...
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Aug-31-2020,
1:34pm
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Hello! I'm new here and my name is...
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You've got some fairly serious "dishing" of the top, almost certainly from too-high-tension strings, possibly from failure of an internal brace. ...
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