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

A person on a recording website offered to master tracks for people. I sent him this track and he worked some magic on it. He has multiple Pultecs and other tube gear that really added some goodness...

Gibson offered the Virzi as an option in their Catalog N as well as their Gibson Service Manual; both were published in later 1923 (pgs. 37, 44 respectively s. below). Neither the Cadenza nor the...

#75320, of that coveted, non-Virzi Feb. 18th '24 batch.

Hendrik

Reminds me of my favorite Guy Clark recitations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHxOego2Sso

"Lost three fingers to a steel band saw/Oh, Buddy, sing a sad old song
Now my fiddle hangs untuned on the wall/Lord, and my time ain't long."

Craig Johnson, Damned Old Piney Mountains
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A year or two back the National Music Museum in South Dakota published The Masters Bench by Paul Schmit and Arian Sheets. It is a book about the work of John D'Angelico, Jimmy D'Aquisto and Paul...

This came up on my Youtube feed - great stuff!

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From French mandolinist Annick Robergeau-Bonnet.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Amx-QQAlw&feature=youtu.be

This is a recently finished flat top mandolin that is a bit unusual. It was experimental so I had no idea how it would sound. The back and sides are of Macassar Ebony, top is Red Spruce, neck...

Scott-

Congratulations! You and the Mandolin Cafe team have created something really special, and valuable. I know I'm not alone in appreciating how much this means musically and socially. One of...

This is a great video- George describes his personal Loar L5, and talks about what makes it special to him


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoM1EC7I3w0

I don't have any pictures yet, though it...

A customer/friend had her mandolin stolen from her house a couple of years ago, an Old Wave she'd worn the finish off the back of the neck playing for 20 years. Made her another that she liked as...

Thought people may enjoy this. What a player.

https://bluegrasstoday.com/california-report-tom-rozum-laurie-lewis-right-hand-man/

Mike organized this with his ArtistWorks students. He wrote out parts and recorded guide tracks for us and then we all recorded our parts. Another student put the video all together. It was a fun...

This is what happens during social isolation:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sYYgPGmx1M

Worth with his mandolin and Jerry

Greetings, my name is Grant Handley. It was my father, Worth Handley who played in the Hart Valley Drifters briefly in 1962. The flea market find, the $25 Loar F5 Fern, was his. An early photo of the...

I don’t know for sure 100%, but the Hornex company advertises their vulcanized fiber, as it it is still quite traditional. Here is a link:
https://www.hornex.de/html/products/vulcanised-fibre.html...

The A-2z model was not offered prior to the year 1924.

In my opinion, based on only partial data, in the year 1924 Gibson made about 200 A-2z and then the same amount in the year 1925, for a total...

To the best of my knowledge there are no surviving Gibson factory documents with production totals for the year 1923. I have produced the following estimated production, using my own private serial...

I don't know if THIS story from the UK has been posted already - forgive me if it has. A touching gesture directed toward the memory of a musical friend.

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The left with the mid 20's A model Gibson is Zeke Morris from Black Mountain, NC. On the right with the 30's Martin 2-15 is Bill Calhoun who also sang the tenor and played a tenor guitar. Charlie...

1910 Shutt.

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A friend just sent me his, hadn't seen it before. For some reason the video embed isn't working...

https://youtu.be/nBZn4S9S2CU