At 67, with 50 years of mandolin playing behind me, I'm glad to be counted among the "young people who misunderstand the mandolin".
Fortunately for me, I stopped worrying about other people's...
At 67, with 50 years of mandolin playing behind me, I'm glad to be counted among the "young people who misunderstand the mandolin".
Fortunately for me, I stopped worrying about other people's...
A 1924 F4 that belonged to a friend of mine. I helped him sell it, and had it at my house for a few weeks.
Take a look at the piece of paper. It looks like it came from the factory "BLK". I've seen a couple of original black A-50's before, so I think that it's original.
He'll be back for this year's Western Swing Weekend.
https://www.montanafiddlecamp.org/westernswingweekend/
Maybe this one?211295
I entered a "manalin" contest in Alabama in 1982. That's how everybody there pronounced it, and that's how it was printed in the program.
I've played 5 or 6 Loars over the years, including the Griffith, and I have to agree
Maybe it was for his F5?210435
What's under the bridge cover?
A friend of mine went to a workshop with Frank, and asked him what temperature he baked his mandolins at. Frank just smiled.
It looks like an A-00 to me. Are you sure that the back is solid? Gibson usually put in a back brace on the laminate backs.
Okay! Martin Stillion correctly identified it as a Blue Dragon mandolin, made in Whitefish, MT.
Does anybody have one, or any experience with these?
Then there was the part where he was dancing around, not touching the mandolin while the solo was happening.:)
I think that he was playing his AL Smart mandola on the two tunes that I saw.
All the things mentioned above are good ideas, but not all work for everybody. The Voltaren cream had no effect for me, but I've heard that it works for other people. I take Meloxicam every day for...
Spreading the mandolin gospel, circa 1983:206509
A competent repair person should be able to touch up that repair so that it's practically invisible.
I've had this problem ever since my fingers started getting arthritic. I've found that just a little bit of saliva on my thumb and first finger really keeps the pick from moving around.
It might be a year, but not much more than that.
I don't know the history, but I live close to Greg's shop and have played it several times. It's a great mandolin!
I just set my mandolin outside. If it gets wet, I know that it's raining.;)205803
You should have put a disclaimer in the original post about not having listened to it. It's going to take a while to scrub that out of my mind...:)
Probably the Griffin Loar.
Here's one I wrote and recorded with my band, Cash For Junkers. I'm primarily a jazz and swing mandolin player, so this was a little different for me: https://soundcloud.com/johnrosett/number-two-rag
All the used ones that I'm seeing on Reverb are priced considerably higher, so if there's nothing wrong with it, I'd say it's a pretty good deal. Make sure that there aren't any cracks or seam...