First up and its hitting on all cylinders ...
Auspicious Beginnings..
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First up and its hitting on all cylinders ...
Auspicious Beginnings..
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Those are some powerful mandolins you are building there Vernon...I just had a look around on your page and videos etc..Nice playing !
and your from Timberville Va. no less.. i just passed thru...
... The 1920's Gibson A-4 Snakeheads with flame maple backs are my
personal Holy Grail... of course i am biased..
and they are extremely scarce... only 1/2 dozen or so known from the same log..
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Here's another "version" ...
One of the wildest Monroe performances to be caught on film..
Especially love the moment after Butch's break when Monroe gets a little sideways and Wayne jerks his...
Young Mike Marshal w/ the Sunshine Bluegrass Boys interview for posterity ... must be early 70's... bunch of young guys just starting out .. classic..
probably going to need a little help with the...
you are one Lucky fella Glassweb... me too... ive been meaning to share this 2022 Duff 17" scale H-5 build with the folks here and i'll post a tread on it at some point ..
But here's a couple pic's...
Nice group of Snake siblings sharing a seat ..
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Lots of good info about Shutt mandolins here...
https://www.harpguitars.net/history/shutt/shutt-non-members.htm
Happy Birthday to Mike Compton.. and thanks going out to Mike for the extraordinary effort and risk taken to bringing these new recordings to us...folks dont know what a big leap of faith it was to...
Here's a Shutt mandolin in action.... as played by Maestro Compton just a couple weeks ago..
Playing a Shutt that once belonged to you Bradley..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiMe-E7xGrM
Here's our current base line.... pun intended..
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Ken Parker is a Luthier known to many for his uncompromising and innovative approach to the design and construction of archtop guitars.
He has agreed to be the subject of a video series that...
When is a guitar also like a basket, and a chair, and a steak?
He's down by the green river where the air smells like snakes.... so sorry to lose you John..
Hang in there brother....take the Ratliff with you if you can, just in case you have a chance to pick a little..
I think its fair to say mandolins have magical healing powers !!
Circle back when...
how's that go again about music .... 32 chords and the truth ..
so far out of my depth .... its laughable ....
https://chordu.com/chords-tabs-daphne-django-reinhardt-id_5sPfyx5t_5A
A beautiful way to start the year ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUK6PUkRhfQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUK6PUkRhfQ
and more good news hot off the cafe mimeograph machine.....
I recently came into possession of a used Calton mandolin case..an early copy from Austin Texas... Seemed to have an issue that i'm told was later fixed ..
It would tip over like this when you...
You might want to get some of these..
M2 belleville serrated lock washers..
NFI ..
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I've been meaning to post these.....they fit Waverly 2-64 Screws nicely..
And the quality of manufacture is extraordinary..NFI...178679
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years ago my 3 + 5 year old boys conspired to get my mandolin hung up high on the living room wall ..climbed up on some furniture..somehow managed to knock it down...miraculously it got wedged behind...
Happy Birthday DeFord...
DeFord Bailey - Pan American Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjlR8eS0YPM
Bill Monroe - DeFord Bailey & "Evening Prayer Blues"
Live at the Soft Rock Cafe,...
"It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire."...
I guess nobody wants "Crusher"....so David...if yer listening....I'm here for you buddy...
here to help....all day...every day....