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I bought a leather strap from Northfield around 5 years ago. I absolutely love it! It's gotten super soft over the years. I wanted to get a couple more for my A3 & dola but they show "out of stock"...

I've had a full day with it now and man, what an instrument.

I'm not as storied or worldly as some other Cafe members, and I do not have a myriad of experience with other high end mandolins....

I just happened across this brief youtube video thanks to their autosuggestion function. It's only a couple of years old and includes some interesting information. For one thing, it mentions plans by...

Fixed it. It was in Chrome settings all along. I found a button that said "dismiss warning" - dismissed. Done and dusted. Whew!

The last two digits of my serial numbers signify the year while the first three relate to the number of the instrument.
So your mandolin is the 46th mandolin I have built and it was completed in...

Tony is a fantastic picker and everyone should look up Jerry’s mandolin album on YouTube. Jerry is a great picker.
The Murphy brothers played a lot in NC where I’m from. I love this story.
Harry...

This mandolin was featured in the "Sometimes a case tells a story" article recently.


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You did the right thing by notifying the vendor of their mistake. If it turns out you get to keep it somehow great but if not enjoy the new F5S.

Ronnie McCoury Month | Day 25: The King's Shilling

I've started adding in monster arpeggios in my playing after learning the last phrase of this song! So simple but executed so well. Free sheet...

Thanks Adam! It's a Nugget A style that was a contest prize for the Winfield mandolin championship in 1987. It was won by legendary mandolin player David Peters and he played the snot out of it. It's...

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I joined the Cafe in Nov. 2015 when I got back into playing Mandolin as something to keep me busy while at home after our 2nd daughter's birth in October of that year.... little did I...

I had a quiet moment today. I grabed my guitar and in the spirit of the moment recordet what I was feeling and thinking about:
on earth peace, goodwill toward men

I´ve been thinking about folks...

I have a gig tomorrow at an art gallery. Playing with friends, banjo, dulcimer, guitar, penny whistle, bones. We are doing Christmas carols interspersed with great fiddle tunes.

Easy gig as we are...

Carols: We Wish You a Merry Christmas 00:00; The First Noel 00:26; Stille Nacht 01:12; O Little Town Of Bethlehem 01:50; Narodil se Kristus Pan 02:27; Good King Wenceslas 02:59; Ding! Dong! 03:21;...

I've always loved the tune Greensleeves, and especially enjoy playing it as we approach the Christmas holiday season. Here's my solo version of the tune played on a spectacular Weber Gallatin F...

After floundering around for a few years, I dipped into savings and bought a custom mandolin from Michael Heiden in 2017. Other specialty builders had wait times of at least a year, and he told me...

Timelapse of building the body of a Brescian/Cremonese mandolin:
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GREAT NEWS! Silas' mandolin has been recovered in Lafayette. It is now there with friends and Silas will have it back very soon. Thank you so much for your help everyone!

I appreciate someone that is that good but still has a desire to keep his family fed. I wish him the best in his endeavors.

That is absolutely one of my favorite albums to listen to straight through. As above, the liner notes show both sisters on vocals and that song is wonderfully done.

Daddy Buck White sings and plays mandolin with them. Sharon is married to Ricky Skaggs.

Both Cheryl and Sharon, per the LP back cover.209916

Some of us only play it half-fast.

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Discovered this a while back and it's just so cool that I wanted to make sure others had seen it. Uploaded by Butch Robins. Really shows the continuous...

Been a long time since I’ve seen him posting around here, I always enjoyed his contributions.