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Welcome to the Cafe and best wishes to your monumental endeavor!

This deserves some pushback for the following reasons:

1. You assume the contractual language between Gibson and Bill Monroe for the Monroe Model prohibits any future usage of the signature labels...

Great article in Bluegrass Today: Gibson Bill Monroe Hall of Fame Mandolin that gives more backstory and Gibson's production plans!

Congrats Brotha!

That Northfield F5 (4.0) has a real nice vintage vibe to it in its looks...would love to play one!

Dennis Vance just posted this on Facebook with the caption
"here's the new Gibson Bill Monroe Hall Of Fame Model"

Let the wrangling begin!

...If for sale I LUST for one...LOL!

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Not really Bluegrass, but Old Time Fiddle, and NMC, but worthy of posting

Fiddler/Dancer Hillary Klug and Champion dancer Thomas Maupin perform the 8th Of January

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The Master Fiddler: Kenny Baker


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmiyNXgF_8I

Joe Val...Joe Val...Joe Val...Love me some Joe Val and his Loar!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f6P7QJtM1g

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In reading Tom Ewing's incredible Monroe biography, he details when and how, and what re: the mandolin.

It's a 1924 Gibson A4 Snakehead...read the book and he gives you all the...

Don's mandolin is a beauty, however for most of us it's unplayable!

Come on Don, when are you going to stop using that wacky tuning so I can really check that thing out?...LOL!

See ya at the...

Then there's: "Statistics is the art of torturing the data to make it confess to what you want it to"

...Back to the OP's concern, it seems that a fair amount of posters did reply in the context...

Good points Bernie and I agree in principle, however the difference in genre posts with bluegrass in the lead is not a statistically significant different one...meaning, no real difference there...

Thanks Jill!

Yeah, SoCal is in the 70s and sunny...I've spent some time in the Bay Area, so I know what you're dealing with...maybe an indoor spot would work for you like the BART stations (if not...

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I went out today to our town big chain grocery store to do some casual busking. Fallbrook is a small town (40,000) in rural North County San Diego that advertises itself as "The...

Righteo Mike!

That one appears to be one of the "transitional" mandos that were brought by Weber and group from Bozeman to Nashville in Jan 97, and eventually completed there.

Nashville label with that serial number = March 31, 1998, 2nd mandolin in production that day...

I tore my right biceps tendon at the elbow joint insertion 8 years ago...almost a complete tear, the orthopod said that the MRI showed that it was hanging by a thread. He didn't want me doing...

Hotdog Darrell Webb!

This is THE Bluegrass Music!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3jHGXCCIWM&feature=youtu.be

Live And Let Live with guest Roland White...late 80s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJASn33EpfE

I don't know where you get this from but the quality of Gibson mandolins from the Bozeman era to the current David Harvey era has been attested to as ranging from very good to excellent; and the...

Uploaded another video to my YouTube channel, put a copyright disclaimer notice in it so we'll see...

Bluegrass Cardinals with a stellar lineup including Herschel Sizemore and Don Rigsby...

1. I believe Flatiron mandolins used the mortise-tenon joint from the beginning. The screw (bolt) may have been a Carlson modification; I really don't know, but I suggest you call Steve and ask him....

OK, where do I begin?....

I started this thread Montana Gibson Mandolin Specifications in 2014 around this time specifically to get as much info as possible on this era of Gibsons. Of particular...

Though Larry Barnwell signed your A5L, he was not involved in building it. He was the "Administrator" of the Gibson plant in Bozeman at the time (94-95), and among other things, periodically, signed...