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    Re: Under-rated mandolin players

    There are at least hundreds of great players you've never heard of who can't travel because of their jobs or family, who play in local bands and local clubs, steadily honing their skills and their...
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    Re: Slotted Peghead?

    Do you hate changing strings? (!)
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    Re: RIP Dickey Betts

    According to Dickie, his father took him to play at bluegrass jam sessions in north Florida on the weekends beginning around the age of nine. Because there were already plenty of guitar players, his...
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    Re: Mandolin misunderstanding by young folk

    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...
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    Re: Separation of Neck From Body… What a Bummer

    If you can't return it - or it is too costly to do so, then that looks a candidate for a "strap button repair": basically reglue the neck as best you can, then fit a strap button on the heal with a...
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    Re: Weber Aficionados

    Weber mandolins have only been produced in the US.
    Flatiron and Breedlove mandolins have been produced in both the US and overseas.
    Bruce Weber, Steve Carlson, and Kim Breedlove have founded their...
  7. Re: Separation of Neck From Body… What a Bummer

    I'm with Jeff. Get the strings off, see if it comes out of the mortise. Then you could clean up the old glue and try again. If it goes back together close to original you could add a couple of screws...
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    Re: Preslotted fingerboards

    I think that was the sinker cypress and mahogany. ;)

    Len B.
    Clearwater, FL
  9. Re: AI and music: Billie Eilish, Sheryl Crow and Jon Bon Jovi

    That's a very interesting comment about Art, given that everything that's made is a form of human expression. The hierarchy of 'utility' versus 'ART' seems challenged by better machines. And many...
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    Re: Mandolin Gender

    Ever since the removal of the fretboard extension, mine's been confused.
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    Batwing from a bat cave

    On SGW. Because it will doubtless bit up too far, no interest, but I know there are fans here of the genre. This one spent time in some environment so foul that the finish, down to bare wood, peeled....
  12. Re: AI and music: Billie Eilish, Sheryl Crow and Jon Bon Jovi

    AI transport is woodshedding on autopilot.
    You slide into a beautiful aluminium box in New York with your mandolin and a subscription to the AI mandolin school and by the time you’ve reached San...
  13. Re: AI and music: Billie Eilish, Sheryl Crow and Jon Bon Jovi

    My nightmare of sitting at the wheel and having it wrestled from my hands by AI became true in a rented VW Golf with so-called "lane assist". The thing tried to steer me into oncoming traffic on a...
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    Re: Orpheum B/Strad-O-lin 1950s

    Economo. Rhymes with Geronimo.
  15. Re: AI and music: Billie Eilish, Sheryl Crow and Jon Bon Jovi

    That would explain why Keith Richard’s has been alive for centuries.
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    Re: More Gibson Antics

    It baffles me that so many people are so attached, emotionally or otherwise, to this thing, Gibson, that has so little impact on their life.
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    Trailer for Ger Mandolin Orchestra 2024

    Just came across this impressive video, with Mike Marshall playing and directing the orchestra. I assume that they're on tour elsewhere. Other videos have women, including, I believe, Caterina...
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    Re: Boroscope or Endoscope

    Mine is an endoscope. Uses bluetooth to connect to a pad or phone; requires charging (permanent LI battery). It came with a 25' cable which of course is way too long, but it works fine as long as I...
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    Big news from Gibson!

    I'd get one just for the day pass!
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    Re: My dad's fern mandolin

    I think you're right, and that's why it is so very sad that it ended up in a flea market for $20.
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    Re: Is this Mandolin any good?

    There were 200 USAAF airfields in the UK in WW2 and many were in Lincolnshire, so I would reckon your mandolin was brought over by someone in the military at that time. I have a 1942 made Harmony...
  22. Re: What are the chances that a moderately-priced mandolin sounds

    FWIW The Music Emporium currently has a sunburst Eastman 815/v on the wall. I’ve played three Eastman 815/v mandolins. One was awesome, one was just OK, and one was a flat dud. I’m interested is...
  23. Re: What are the chances that a moderately-priced mandolin sounds

    Just speaking generally we live in a golden age of instrument manufacturing so there’s a very good chance that a cheap instrument would sound great. I have a few of them.
  24. Re: Oldest L-5! Lloyd Loar Signature!Analysis

    Jeff, remember that there is a good chance that the dust is comparatively new. ;) Dirt, dust and goop are certainly not part of the original Gibson/Loar concept. Do they belong more in the "aging" or...
  25. Re: The downside list of Upside Down tuning machines

    To me, "over/under" is much more obvious because I think of "upside down" tuners as (e.g.) worm-over tuners installed in a location designed worm-under ones, i.e., so the turning of the keys goes...
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