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Mandolin Mondays: Nashville sideman, session player, band member and performer Tim May plays an original tune on his Ellis F5 mandolin.
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Yesterday,
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1903 postacard showing how to not play a mandolin
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Wouldn't y'all like to have her hold you like that?
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Yesterday,
1:28pm
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Dr. Arm for Mandolin
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"'Do what thou wilt' shall be the whole of the law." -- Aleister Crowley, The Book Of the Law
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May-07-2021,
12:23pm
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This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer
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I'd pay a good price for Ramona Jones' mandolin:
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May-07-2021,
12:16pm
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Help identify George Washburn M 2 Mandolin
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1. There was no "George Washburn," despite what the current owners of the "Washburn" trademark may say. George Washburn Lyon was one of the...
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May-05-2021,
7:16pm
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A small bowlback - travel mandolin? piccolo mandolin?
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Awesome playing by Ms. Holbrook! I have one of these, but it has a conventional scroll rather than the "hook" that the earliest ones had. Very...
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May-04-2021,
10:12pm
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A small bowlback - travel mandolin? piccolo mandolin?
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Had a veritable cornucopia of double entendres picked out; thought better of it.
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May-01-2021,
8:44pm
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A small bowlback - travel mandolin? piccolo mandolin?
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There are a fair number of similar instruments around; the ones I've seen have been German made, but I'd guess that others were made elsewhere in...
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Apr-30-2021,
11:17am
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Como mandolin - any info?
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Couple of hits on Google search for "Como guitars" refer to Korean-made instruments imported maybe 20-25 years ago. Acoustic guitars, some...
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3 replies | 265 view(s)
Apr-29-2021,
7:23pm
allenhopkins
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Gospel Sheet Music or Chord Charts
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Bluegrass, Newgrass, Country, Gospel Variants
A possibility; blurb says it includes "over 50 gospel tunes."
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Apr-29-2021,
7:21pm
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A very water-damaged bowlback
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Not decorative enough to be even a "wall hanger."
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Apr-29-2021,
7:12pm
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Dull and Lifeless
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Huh -- thought this thread was titled after a duet in which I used to play. You can guess whether I was "Dull" or "Lifeless..."
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Apr-26-2021,
7:56pm
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Anyone recognize this case?
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Paged through a gazillion "guitar triangle logo" images that I Googled, didn't find a match. Good luck.
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Apr-26-2021,
7:49pm
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Question about Vega Fairbanks Mandolin Banjo
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You'll need a new head, for sure. (Banjo head, that is!) If you're going to be dealing with Smakula, he has an amazing variety of such in stock,...
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Apr-25-2021,
12:37pm
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Question about Vega Fairbanks Mandolin Banjo
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Gold Tone makes mandolin banjos and ukulele banjos in Asia, and also sells cases and gig bags for them. Here's their "case" page. Gold Tone...
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Apr-24-2021,
12:03pm
allenhopkins
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1920ish Martin built? For S.S. Stewart
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Anybody I know?
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Apr-24-2021,
11:58am
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"Marcelli" Bowlback
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See my Post #2, also this search; the "Marcelli" name has shown up dozens of times, on the tailpieces of a variety of mandolins.
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Apr-22-2021,
7:44pm
allenhopkins
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Rusty Young RIP
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Mosrite Melobar being played: Apparently a 10-string converted down to a 6-string. Don't know what Young played.
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Apr-20-2021,
3:24pm
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Bowl back identification
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Question for the bowl-back experts: how common were the alternating-woods (maple/mahogany, maple/rosewood) staves, such as this one has, on European...
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7 replies | 402 view(s)
Apr-20-2021,
3:11pm
allenhopkins
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Another NMD
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Biscuit bridge, I see, as you stated in your other thread. What wood is the top, and where did your builder get the resonator cone?
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Apr-20-2021,
3:07pm
allenhopkins
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First World Problems
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I've had a wood-painted aluminum bass fiddle, which I think is a Pfretzschner, for a couple decades now. Bought it from banjo maven Jim Bollman,...
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Apr-19-2021,
11:06am
allenhopkins
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First World Problems
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Similar experience: I owned, briefly, a Johnson Asian copy of a National tri-cone resonator guitar, made of chrome-plated brass and very shiny. I...
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Apr-18-2021,
12:38pm
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Shopgoodwill F5 Gibson???
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Quite a few luthiers -- of varying degrees of skill -- made "F-5 copies" or "Gibson copies" over the past 50 years. It used to be common to put...
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Apr-17-2021,
2:10pm
allenhopkins
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Stahl Mandolin
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All gone to kitchen knife handles and furniture veneer. The Brazilian embargo on un-milled rosewood didn't help, either.
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Apr-17-2021,
2:05pm
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Newbie OM questions
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Since your in Wellfleet, you might want to consider Nick Apollonio in in Rockport ME. He builds a lot of OM's, citterns, and "Irish" zouks. Prices...
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Apr-17-2021,
1:53pm
allenhopkins
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Help!!:I have aqquired an Unmarked unnamed 7 string banjolele
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Just to add further complications, there are four-stringed instruments that are neither ukulele-banjos, nor four-string mandolin banjos. They...
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37 replies | 1464 view(s)
Apr-16-2021,
2:06pm
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Pawn Shop F5L
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Signed by Steve Carlson -- I'd say this is a stone bargain. How it ended up in the pawn shop is that someone probably brought it in and pawned it,...
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Apr-16-2021,
2:03pm
allenhopkins
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Help!!:I have aqquired an Unmarked unnamed 7 string banjolele
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Vintage Instruments
Thanx to journeybear for the research! Appears what you have, looks quite a bit like a "Melody Major" mandolin-banjo; if so, it was made by Geo....
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Apr-15-2021,
12:25pm
allenhopkins
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1920ish Martin built? For S.S. Stewart
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Looking for Information About Mandolins
Once the S S Stewart label was bought by Buegeleisen & Jacobson (B & J), you found it on a variety of instruments made by different builders, and...
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27 replies | 1568 view(s)
Apr-15-2021,
12:09pm
allenhopkins
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Beginner: Kentucky KM-150 or Aria M-180?
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1. Can't find specs on the Aria, but based on several Google look-ups, it appears to be a mid-price instrument from 40-50 years ago. I've seen the...
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3 replies | 365 view(s)
Apr-13-2021,
3:02pm
allenhopkins
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Information on this Bowlback
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Looking for Information About Mandolins
You have what's called a "mandriola," which has four triple-string courses, rather than the double-string courses of a standard mandolin. Oscar...
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4 replies | 386 view(s)
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