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Sep-16-2019,
7:48pm
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Rochester NY Mandolin Orchestra debuts Sept. 14
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Well, the debut performance at the North Winton Festival was quite successful! Here are some photos and live recordings.
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Sep-13-2019,
10:27am
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Bucolo Mandolin. Where can I find info on the model
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Yeah, Ern, I'm well aware of the name similarity -- as well as another Allen Hopkins, apparently a broadcaster of soccer games. I'm pretty far down...
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Sep-13-2019,
10:23am
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National Tenor Tri-cone Resonator Guitar
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Brozman's book puts Ser.#305 as 1928, first year they were manufactured. Price is competitive, IMHO.
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Sep-12-2019,
4:09pm
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What's the origin/lyrics of this song: All Around the Mountain
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Somebody loaned me a CD by a Midwestern singer with All Around the Mountain -- a tune I first heard at Fox Hollow Folk Festival (Troy NY) in the...
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Sep-12-2019,
4:03pm
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Tenor ukulele for a CBOM player?
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Where's "around here?" Eight-string tenors are getting pretty common, as far as I can see; bunches of them on the internet. I have one, a '30's...
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Sep-12-2019,
1:02pm
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Hah! Bob Carlin's book Regal Musical Instruments, 1895-1955, has a pic on p. 256 of Wendell Hall playing a very similar instrument, described as a...
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Sep-12-2019,
12:31pm
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Cleaning up an old bowl back
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Couple things to consider: it's rare, but there were "canted top" mandolins where the bridge was placed "south" of the bend in the top (some Vega...
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Sep-12-2019,
12:21pm
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Bucolo Mandolin. Where can I find info on the model
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Well –– 1. It definitely is a "bouzouki," if by that we mean a long-necked mandolin-like instrument, whether the original Greek bouzouki -- which...
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Sep-10-2019,
11:56am
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Gibson A5-L unsold for 15 years
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A new inventory item that sits unsold for 15 or more years, is evidence (IMHO) of a pricing mistake. If the mandolin had been sold at the...
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Sep-09-2019,
9:41am
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Gelas mandolin family at Bernunzio's
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OK, am I shilling for John Bernunzio, one of our local vintage dealers? Definitely not, although there's a super-graphic on one of his store...
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Sep-04-2019,
2:11pm
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Potential USA Recesssion?
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The "business cycle" will trend downward, sooner or later. People with advanced degrees and many publications, who spend their lives studying...
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Aug-31-2019,
7:42pm
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Can anyone tell me anything about this banjolin?
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Hmm... Looks British, kinda/sorta; "W" could be "Windsor," British maker, though I've not seen a Windsor with an inlaid "W." The brackets holding...
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Aug-31-2019,
7:26pm
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Rochester NY Mandolin Orchestra debuts Sept. 14
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Over the past year, Tom Napoli here in Rochester has turned a series of impromptu Saturday sessions at Bernunzio's Uptown Music, into an organized...
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Aug-31-2019,
7:02pm
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looking to move, but I have no clue where ?.
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Rochester NY: Plus: Great medical facilities; U of R/Strong Hospital is one of the best in the country Easy access to a wide...
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Aug-23-2019,
5:42pm
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Always surprised how people send stuff
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And if you have a local music dealer, ask him/her to save for you one of the shaped instrument boxes that factories/distributors use to ship to...
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Aug-19-2019,
2:31pm
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This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
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Maybe like this guy?
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Aug-19-2019,
11:39am
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comparing Eastman Mandola's
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When I bought my MDA 615 (since traded on my Stahl), I played an 815 and decided the 615 sounded better, though it wasn't as fancily appointed. As...
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Aug-19-2019,
11:34am
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what is the best selling mandolin
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Tony, "best selling" usually means the highest number of sales. No data exists as to what mandolins Cafe members own. Rule of thumb is that less...
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Aug-18-2019,
7:39pm
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beside the mandolin.
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I try to play anything with strings that you don't play with a bow. So: mandolin family (piccolo mandolin through mando-bass), guitar (six and...
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Born 1943; married, 2 kids, full time "folkie," playing since 1961, own 75 instruments
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