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This image has been posted a few times on Mac's Bluegrass Era on Facebook and it is labeled "1949: BLUEGRASS BOYS: JACK THOMPSON, CHUBBY WISE, MAC WISEMAN, RUDY LYLE, WITH "THE GREAT BILL"". I have...

Thank you! I really need to get a copy of your book.
(Amended) In fact moments ago, I just did!

Just got some more issues of "The Cadenza" magazine and thought I would share some of the cool Gibson ads from the WWI era. The first is an ad for the "DY" Army-Navy mandolin from June, 1918. Gibson...

Well...maybe..that's why I said "are they fresh" :mandosmiley:

This is the real subject at hand concerning Loar mandolins and many of my posts in the recent past.

We do not have enough data points with Loar FON's to know what happened. We have only recently...

Joe, I am so glad that you have devoted so much time and effort into recording and explaining FONs. I find myself constantly referring to your book in helping to date various Gibson instruments and...