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Nice to see you posting, David...

Hopefully the millions of tiger moms forcing their 5-year-olds into violin lessons will read this study...

Even if this myth is debunked, I assume there are...

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Manus Lunny got in touch a while ago about building a new bouzouki to replace the one I made for him 20 odd years ago. The old instrument has had a very hard life - years of touring with...

Like Doug in post #6 above, I was in the audience when Hilary Hahn walked out on the stage in Pasadena and played this:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkfsGCIiHb4

Their latest model is now starting at $7500. Wow. Something I've learned, and it's proven to me year after year, it's not the mando, it's the player. We have a festival in Washington State every May...

Real pirates play electric guitar anyway.

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These guys CAN and SHOULD.

This is a great example of musicians of high quality having fun!

You know, I don't like all music. There are some genres that simply leave me unimpressed. I don't like all of the songs in the genres I do like. I remember not being let into Disneyland in the 70's...

For the past couple years I've traveled a fair bit to Sweden to play music and learn the local fiddle tunes (so many polskas!) and have encountered a whole lot of amazing musicians. A few of them...

Happened on this recently while indulging my Molly Tuttle obsession. I nwasn't familiar with the tune but, man oh man, what a job they do with it! The lyrical inventiveness of Joe and John combined...

Okay this just in, I may have found a way to post straight from my phone. We'll see if this works:

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Of course there are some clams in there but it will give you an idea of the...

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Thousands of Epiphone walnut-back-and-sides archtop guitars pretty much led the way on this one....

Wood "quality" has nothing to do with how a mandolin is going to sound...
"Quality"--in the tonewood world--is nothing more than a beauty contest...
It's all about how psychedelic the figure is in...

If it doesn't work, you can try the "uncork method".

Have a nice day.

Andy Poe built one of his Scout flattops with an ebony back and sides:

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In addition to the Hamlett and Condino videos above, here's a video of Andrew Mowry himself doing a hand rubbed sunburst. And a video from Dan Voight.

No. An expert luthier delivers the darkest sound.
Bill

Whoa....
Have you seen the Paquette microphone book??
An absolutely amazing documentation of mostly American mics....about 3" thick.

It's on my bucket list to visit their museum in...

The classic Buffalo Springfield played on (mostly) traditional instruments, including Sierra Hull on mandolin. A friend posted this on Facebook this morning. Just about an hour before that I started...

I planed the bindings down in width. I used 1/4" bindings rather than the 3/16" i usually use on mandolins, but I didn't want them to be fully 1/4" wide, just potentially a little wider than 3/16"...

Runout in the spruce?

My friend Tom TJ Jessen has been building a 10-string hardanger fiddle for me (viola size). Its a viola d'amore shape, with 5 top strings and 5 sympathetic strings. Perfection pegs and an internal...