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If you listen to "Nashville Storms" on Michael Cleveland's Fiddlers Dream album you can hear a very noticeable moaning in the background. I asked Mike about it and he said it was Andy Statman's...

Adam has taken breaks before. It is a demanding business and he has young children. I suspect we will see him again at some point - or at least I hope we will. I don't know him well but I believe he...

I really like Darren Nicholson's Fret a Spell album.

https://youtu.be/zzpcIoUIH3I

Hey Gary, I have a spare LongHollow strap you are welcome to. The part that contacts your shoulder is wide, soft and comfortable. It's like this one but a lighter color. I can deliver it Sunday if...

Meh, I owned a banjo once upon a time. I was trying to get my sister to move out of my house so I traded a guitar I didn't like for a banjo I didn't know how to play. The tactic failed but I sold the...

That surprised me too coming from that shop. I just acquired a Pava A5 with koa binding. She added koa binding to the pick guard as well and it really ties it altogether. When I first laid eyes on it...

The strings were not floppy loose but were detuned to where it far from being in tune.

Very true on both accounts but I'm only permitted to take one of them home with me...sigh.
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The strings had been loosened. I did pick a few notes though just to say I'd played a Loar. Truthfully, I was so excited that I was buying that Birdseye Northfield Artist that Marty Stuart himself...

I didn't play it but I did hold it and gave it a sniff a few weeks ago. It's in great shape. I was a little nervous just holding it.

11 time IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year Michael Cleveland is also one heck of a mandolin player. He really likes to mash on it. I've never heard him play it at a mortal human's tempo.

I got to hold a '24 Loar this week. It has aged much more gracefully than I have. I did not drop it nor drool upon it.

Answer: Because want and need are not the same thing.

I play a mandolin way beyond my pay grade because I like it.

"It's not easy being green." - Kermit the Frog

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I separated both shoulders in a m/c accident about 10 years ago. I was a guitar player back then and had to switch to a smaller bodied guitar. Last year I reinjured my right shoulder again....

Q: What do you call a banjo player with health insurance?

A: 65

The used 305 I bought shows signs that it has been played a lot but not abused. There's a couple places on the finish that look like it has been exposed to bug spray, sunscreen or something that left...

I just bought a used Eastman 305 to serve as my "drag around" mandolin. I'm pretty impressed with it. The set up isn't bad and it sounds way better than my current beater. I had a 515 that I...

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I'll just drop this screenshot here for grins an giggles.

I wish my mandolin had winding pillows.

I don't take my mandolin for walks. It uses the mando door.

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I know several people that are in the Bluegrass program at ETSU. Many are pursuing double majors. Becky Buller was a public relations major at ETSU. Most students in the program are already...

I use the same pieces of music for fiddle, mandolin and tinwhistle so I say go for it.

I have a Rogue that I bought on sale for 49.99 shipped. It wasn't too hard to make playable. A short term later I bought a used better mandolin but I still play the Rogue when I camp and take it to...