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Most people under the age of 40 wouldn`t know bluegrass if it came up and kicked them in their butt...I guess the folks that do the nominations at IBMA are all under the age of 40...

Willie

The best advice I ever received was to learn as many songs as I could and learn to play them in a key that didn`t use too many open strings, then you would be able to play them in just about every...

I`m with Banjo Boy, I thought this site was the one place where we could voice our opinions and not get raked over the coals too badly, we are all intitled to our opinions and do like to express...

+1 for what Ivan said....It is a bluegrass contest and sure some of them do play bluegrass when the promoters book them for a festival but with this "new bluegrass " sound it is hard to define where...

It would be nice to hear a sound test of the Ky 1500 compared to the Northfields, I have heard that the fellow that oversees the Northfield building also at one time worked for Saga so he may be...

As I have asked before...Why don`t folks let us know where they are located, there just may be someone that could take a look at this thing in person and see that it just might not be a huge problem...

DrBluegrass is repeating just about word for word everything that I have been saying on here for the past 8 years...Play what ever you like but don`t call it bluegrass if it isn`t traditional...

Spud, I met Hi-Lo Brown at a festival some years ago and he played Stone Wall Around Your Heart for me in a jam and I have played it ever since...I neve heard anyone but him sing it....I always...

I figured that Tim, He is one of my mandolin idols, he showed me the trick in cross picking which I cannot do any more, not like I used to anyway...His grandson does it better or at least as well as...

I still remember it like it was yesterday...My first song was an old Roy Acuff song called "Low And Lonely"...Funny thing is about 6 months ago I got a request to play it at one of our shows and I...

Martin made some guitars with a burst, I saw it on a few D-35`s anyway, I don`t know if they were special orders or not but I don`t think so...So burst it...

Willie

Not all mandolins will sound the same using a certain brand of strings, I have been trying to find the "Holy Grail" set of strings for years and find that I have to use a different brand on each...

I find the Kentucky mandolins KM-900`s and above to be such a bargain that people selling them can ask more for them. AND GET IT...Great mandolins and probably the best bang for the buck out there...

The original Bluegrass Album Band ain`t so bad are they? I could listen to them all day and all night...

Willie

I still have quite a collection of vinyl records and I do convert them over to CDs and the hiss and needle noises are on the CDs so I enjoy that sound myself...I assume we are telling our age when we...

I assume that a lot of the pros try different brand mandolins when they visit a shop that sells all models and someone just took that photo of Ronnie, When I visit a shop I play every mandolin that...

Tim, If you had a satellite radio you would have bluegrass (or so they call it) all the way going and coming on your trip...

My vehicle also has about 12 CDs stashed in the glove compartment...

Olaf and Allen...I did put the word "Oak" in there when I shouldn`t have...I saw Mac and his son down in Florida about 3-4 years ago which of course was after Hazel passed away and they were still...

In regards to what was mentioned about Duffy`s F-12, John did run his strings high but he also changed the pitch on the neck angle so that the bridge was high but the strings weren`t all that high on...

One thing for sure is that Monroe didn`t like others to play the music the same as he did, go and get you own style he said but in my mind because so many others did copy his music is why bluegrass...

I found the same thing on one mandolin and I took a four inch straight edge and ran it up the strings in between the two E strings from the bridge toward the nut and found the first fret was not...

I have mandolins with both fretboards and go back nd forth with no problems..NOW...When I first got the radius one I found it different but did get use to it.....some one mentioned that even with a...

I have been waiting for them to bring it to the Maryland area, I used to go just about every year when it was at Owensboro but it seems that it has become way to commercial now days, and the voting...

If everyone in the group uses an electronic tuner then you should be in tune, if your mandolin is set up correctly, and just ask what key the song is in...Never be afraid to play as loud as you need...

I have failed to understand that after these perils subside people go back and rebuild a house in the same place, the mud slides in Calif. the floods in Texas, New Orleans etc...I would get to higher...