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Yes, I know, this song has been done, redone, used, and abused, and I should have left it alone. However, I decided maybe there was a little room left in the world for a solo mandolin instrumental....

I always heard mandolin music was cool, and here that notion is affirmed

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I hope this little composition will improve your mood)

"Just Smile".
Written and performed by S.A. Rusanov, ©2023.

A bit of jazz, folk, and fingerstyle guitar and mandolin music/ ...

This has been driving me insane for probably way over a decade. In the fondly remembered week of a the one and only class with Jethro offered at Augusta Heritage Arts workshop in 1983, we took a...

Got a call from Paul Lestock on Saturday to say my Jazzbo was finished. He's been making them since at least 2013 and there's videos of Jason Anick playing his on Youtube.

Paul mentioned that he...

and immediately purchased the HD Flac - wow

https://acousticdisc.com/product/david-grisman-quintet-first-recordings-live-in-dawgs-living-room-download/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib6ev6vlwOA

Local maker to me... Alex Bishop (I'm connected to him on social media but NFI)

For those who love the idea of a tenor with a soundhole that makes it irksome to fit a magnetic pickup in... :lol:
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Nice!!!

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FYI - Appears they've rolled this out. Its been in the works for a very long time, hope it's going well for them.

https://pegheadnation.com/

Instrumental take on Hank Williams' Mansion on the Hill. Tuning on the tenor is CGDA

https://youtu.be/WJ098MaZstE

I love my Earnest ES-125 3/4 Conversion!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K0o3Ec1kuI

Thanks,
Baron

Thanks for all the responses thus far, everyone.

@phef
Wow, that's certainly a beautiful one. Dare I email to ask about the price?

@Lord
Thanks, got your message and just replied. You...

I have always envied your Arrows!

I covered a variety of styles on my new album, albeit with a sound rooted in rock and roll. For this jazzy tune, the lead was played on an electric tenor in standard CGDA tuning:
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Here is my latest. Not an exact Griffith copy, as I have not seen the original. But more of a concept instrument of the possible existence of a second Loar signed A5.
Pic guard by Darryl Wolfe,...

Melody and solo from his album Art in America.

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Five string acoustic? Nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeqWxeQ4Wu0

a bit of a surprise to see what's beneath the cone of the modern National mandolin:

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Hi all,

My wife and I just recorded one of our favorite songs using our Northfield Archtop Octave that I've had for about a year. So I wanted to share this with y'all since there can never be too...

Well friends, I findly got back out into the shop this weekend, finished up the necks for my Bigsby Tiny Moore style mandolins. Did the mother of pearl inlays, fretting, binding and shaped the backs...

I think I've caught the Bigsby bug, I've been wanting to build bunches of Tiny Moore style mandolins for a long time, I've tooled up, here's the first 2 bodies I built yesterday, going to saw out...

This is not exactly mandolin specific (although there is some solo electric mandola underscore starting at the 3:18 mark).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrJwzs8axJw

Very nice, thanks!