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  1. Re: What are some of the best Mandolins that you all have played?

    I've played many wonderful mandolins, but the one I've been happiest with, and most impressed by, is my Ellis F5 Special. It has a beautiful voice.
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    Re: New Mandolin Cafe Hat

    I'm that cool. :cool:
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    Re: New Mandolin Cafe Hat

    I’d like to see the khaki ones again.
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    Quilted Maple Sky

    Yesterday evening the sky over my house looked just like the quilted maple on the back of a mandolin. Snapped a quick pic and wanted to share.
    :grin:
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    Re: Is anyone else scared of Bill Monroe?

    I saw Earl the last time he played at Merelefest. We were at a steak house right out side of the campus and Scruggs was there eating. Every few minutes someone would stop to talk to him and I don’t...
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    Re: Uncle Don Brown's Loar

    Hey Fretbear, thank you for posting my YouTube video of the Don Brown Loar. I hope you liked it
  7. Re: Apitius mandolin - Aaron Weinstein - All of Me

    So glad you're enjoying the course! I believe the strings I'm using in that video are from d'addario. They're perfectly agreeable. Though, I'm still mourning the loss of elixir strings which were my...
  8. Re: Apitius mandolin - Aaron Weinstein - All of Me

    Thank you. I really do enjoy the amplified sound of the Apitius -- but in the video, I'm just playing it acoustically into a mic.
  9. Apitius mandolin - Aaron Weinstein - All of Me

    Hey there,

    ICYMI: Yesterday's Mandolin Monday - Apitius Mandolin x 2:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORYOx3V2Ww
  10. Behind the Haystack - Stephen Owsley Smith Cittern

    Thanks to all who helped me get my dad's SOS cittern back up and running.


    Here's a video of me playing Behind the Haystack. Feedback is welcome!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVhAxfNhTRs
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    Re: Café classifieds

    I really don't need to get into discussing this further and I'm already on record stating the decision is not going to be an invitation for a public forum on opinions. The banjo community has been...
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    Re: Classifieds work !

    From the shop in Pittsburgh? I just missed that one. Good for you!
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    New John Reischman Interview

    This has been in the works for a while and I'm very happy to get it out there to help promote John's work. Thanks to him for his time and inspiration.
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    Re: I'm amazed by the Tone Gard

    The ToneGard is an essential part of the mandolin kit.
    That,along with my Blue Chip pick, and I'm good to go!!
    I even splurged so I have a ToneGard on each mandolin!

    Billy
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    Cumberland Acoustic

    I want to give a BIG SHOUT-OUT and THANKS to Steve Smith and Cumberland Acoustic. I sent my F5 to Steve and he did a re-fret, fitted a new bridge, and installed a new nut and pick guard. They did an...
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    Re: Levon Helm’s Gibson F-4 what year is it ?

    The photo is from the RRHF. Levon donated it to them and then they ruin the display by showing him playing another mandolin (his EM200 electric Gibson). Seriously, these professional museum...
  17. Re: Levon Helm’s Gibson F-4 what year is it ?

    I've seen that clip before. It shows Levon at his most charming, all shy and self-effacing. He really undersells the story about his truck fire, which is too bad - must have been a harrowing...
  18. Re: Levon Helm’s Gibson F-4 what year is it ?

    Thanks for posting the You Tube video of Levon Helm. What a fine musician and human being! Always to be remembered.
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    Re: Levon Helm’s Gibson F-4 what year is it ?

    https://youtu.be/65s8eB-NQlg
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    Re: Levon Helm’s Gibson F-4 what year is it ?

    Also, this has cog under worm tuners. They changed to cog over worm in 24 sometime, so 24 at the latest.

    http://www.mandolinarchive.com/images/elderly/90U-3503_headstock-back.jpg
  21. Re: Levon Helm’s Gibson F-4 what year is it ?

    Yep, what Mark said.

    All the best for 2022 y'all!

    Hendrik
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    Re: Levon Helm’s Gibson F-4 what year is it ?

    sounds right to me...
  23. Re: Levon Helm’s Gibson F-4 what year is it ?

    I love these sleuthing exercises!

    Based on the headstock binding, the trussrod cover and the dark tuner buttons an educated guess would be 1923-24. Assuming the tuners weren’t changed I don’t...
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    Re: F-4 Oval string recommendation

    For ages the Curt Mangan Bluegrass medium set was my favourite (used in the past on a Gibson A-jr, Collings MT-O and currently on my Girouard Concert oval A, but for the past year I've had D'Addario...
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    Re: F-4 Oval string recommendation

    I put a set of D'Addario XS strings on my oval hole mandolin early last summer. They still sound good, but were a bit bright at the beginning. They stay in tune real well and came through our humid...
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