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Bernie Daniel
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Thank you! That is the first time I have heard anyone detail exactly how Flatiron started and why there was a disconnect between the the age of the...
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What a treasure trove of information Hermann! That article on Ren Fergueson is amazing -- i always wanted to know the story of the those "Museum"...
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Thanks for that information. So Flatirons must have come onto the market around 1983 - 84 time frame then. I had always assumed that they came...
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Bernie Daniel
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Thanks for the information! Was it inlaid as a "Nugget" or as a "Gibson"? Does anyone have an image of one of these very early Nugget F-5s? ...
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6:24am
Bernie Daniel
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You've put together an list of impressive comments/commenters on this matter. :) Still I wonder if that means that a significant segment of the...
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Yesterday,
8:07pm
Bernie Daniel
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I think to posit that "public opinion" (as in the instrument buying world "out there") would correspond to the opinions of a dozen or so members of...
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7:54pm
Bernie Daniel
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It might seem ridiculous to you but you don't own Gibson. Most companies do things like that. All of the automakers have each patented thousands of...
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Yesterday,
7:38pm
Bernie Daniel
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Thanks for that list of independent builder back in the day. Most of the names I have heard of but I really did not know who was building when. ...
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Yesterday,
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Bernie Daniel
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Yes Adrain no doubt it was Bill Monroe the put the Gibson F-5 back in the spotlight in 1945 after it had languished for over two decades. The crash...
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Bernie Daniel
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Yeah Stanley -- I was thinking of Ed Rendell former governor of PA! LOL!
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2:31pm
Bernie Daniel
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Fair enough!
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Yesterday,
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Bernie Daniel
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Thanks! So Gilchrist was about 1 or 2 years ahead of the F-5L? Of course Randy Wood in Georgia was making Gibson copies in the early 1970s. ...
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2:08pm
Bernie Daniel
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Bertram noted But would you say that same philosophy applies to tunes and songs now -- just a sea shell found on the beach?
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Yesterday,
1:22pm
Bernie Daniel
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Just for the record can anyone supply the dates when Hutto, Wood, Duff, Gilchrist, Carlson, and others who made higher end F-5s got started with a...
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1:15pm
Bernie Daniel
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Yeah Roger said at one point that Ed Rendall (spelling?) about threw him out of Kalamazoo when Roger made a less then encouraging remark about what...
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1:06pm
Bernie Daniel
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Of course you have your opinions and others have theirs. But no one here has to "justify" the actions of Gibson vis a vis their right to any claim...
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10:43am
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Exactly. And so why is everyone so upset - - this is business as usual?
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Yesterday,
10:35am
Bernie Daniel
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I would beg to differ.
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Yesterday,
10:32am
Bernie Daniel
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I think what you say is mostly true although thanks to Roger Siminoff I would suggest that Gibson more or less got back into the game in 1978 with...
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8:46am
Bernie Daniel
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If you are correct no one has anything to worry about then?
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Yesterday,
8:41am
Bernie Daniel
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Thank you for that! All the individuals saying they will never buy a Gibson? That's fine don't buy one! Vote with your wallet if it makes you...
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Jun-21-2019,
10:49pm
f5loar
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okay, got it but that makes Sonny's story a bit "off" on the dates. You would think he did the self destruction to the F5 as soon as he got it back...
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Jun-21-2019,
10:31pm
f5loar
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Funny you would post of photo of a Gibson Flying V. A 1958 Flying V just sold a few weeks ago for $395,000. About all I can say about Gibson and...
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Jun-19-2019,
3:03pm
Bernie Daniel
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On the other side of the coin I own 7 Gibson instruments right now and since the early 70's I've owned at least another 30 or more other Gibsons,...
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Jun-19-2019,
2:46pm
Bernie Daniel
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Sold his soul? Is it really that dire? Is the man marked for life now? :) I'll bet Mark comes home from Gibson every day and is nice to his...
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Jun-19-2019,
8:44am
Bernie Daniel
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Ha ha - that is pretty funny. But he (Mark) has always seemed to me to be a pretty nice guy - I looked forward to his ventures into "the vault" of...
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Jun-19-2019,
8:36am
Bernie Daniel
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I don't think that is exactly what he was saying Shaun? Of course others can make a mandolin and even call it an F-5 if they want to I guess. ...
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Jun-18-2019,
12:28am
f5loar
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Interesting indeed. So if they logged it in Nov. 29, 1951 and Sonny remembers him getting it back that would be at the earliest July, 1952 this...
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Jun-16-2019,
4:41pm
Bernie Daniel
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Interesting. Give her credit for that then. But as a friend of mine pointed out despite that she still seems to think the tune "Dueling Banjos" came...
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Jun-16-2019,
4:35pm
Bernie Daniel
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Certainly not and you can pretty much bet that they don't think of themselves as bluegrass either!! :))
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