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Hi Ivan, I changed strings on my Lebeda today - first time in over a year(!) and it took me some time, so having a mug of tea and a sit down. All the time I was messing around with my Lebeda, I was...

Hi, hope I'm not breaking any rules, but i tried to click onto Mandozine this morning and got a page saying "account suspended" .

Is is me, or is this international ?

Hi Ivan, it's the Silly Moustache here, the guy with the Lebeda F-5. In January 2017 they told me I had tongue/throat cancer. I went through two nasty biopsy hunts and then chemo and radio. I got...

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we are a four piece playing a mixture of old-timey and (mainly) modern bluegrass.

Our last mando player has had to leave due to illness and our stand-in (an old friend) is reluctant to gig....

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We are a bluegrass (with some old-time) band based in West Sussex.

We have a fine mando player but he is overburdened with other matters at present, and so we are seeking another mando...

Hi, I am the singer, guitarist and dobro player in a band based in west Sussex. We have a banjo/frailing banjo/guitarist singer, and a bass player, but are seeking a mandolin and/or fiddle player -...

I'm a bit upset about this. I know the (last) owner, and only just found out that he'd put t to TAMCO. I would have bought it in a second as it would make a lovely "match" with my Indian Summer F5...

Hi, I've been readoing this with interst. I am jusy now resuming my mando playng which has been comatose for some years. I have a Labeda Premium plus which at tikmes I've thought about using to trade...

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thanks for your comment and I have looked through some of them - and most are names familiar to me.

I should have been more specific as I am looking at things from a UK point of view and ...

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I am the proud owner of a 2005 Lebeda F-5 Premium, and try as I might I can't find a better instrument (well not without selling my house and grandchildren).

My question however is not...

Hi, I am also /was also, a frequent user of the Collings forum and had a couple of ongoing WTB/FS dialogues - and so I am keen to restablish contact. I don't know who the forum owner/manager was or...

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you are quite rght Mr Allen Hopkins !
I've had my share of bargains (including a beloved Collings guitar bought for half price) and an wonderful old archtop etc., and I've bought new...

Well, I'm not really beraft as my Lebeda F-5 Premium is still a great mando, but ....the price !

Oh well !

There has been this splendid mando in a specialist guitar shop near me for some time. I played it once and it was just fine.
They don't do mandos and so it hung arud for a while.
It started off at...

Hi, I'm no legal eagle, but I guess that for some time this business was in trouble. Unpayable debts and insufficient income etc.

At such times the bank trends to take over, and would be...

Hi, I play mostly guitar ad dobro wth mando as my third weapon.
Guitarse my passion.
Firstly, if you are playing in a bluegrass band, you need power or you will be over paying and it can be...

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Last Thursday I received my Guitar-bouzouki !

It is a conversion of a small German archtop guitar. It works really well

I've (trid to)attach an image using the papaerclip thingy. Hope...

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I play mando with a couple f duos, but in one duo I mainly play guitar as Mando Bob - is a far better mando player than I. However, whilst playng together today we were discussing the constant...

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There are strange "rules" about capos. There seesm to be a tradition that bluegrass /old-time/mountain mando, guitarists and dobro players can use capos but not mandolins. Dunnno why but I...

Oh, and another thing..or things. I know musicians who have the ability to make almost any instrument sound better than most, and just because an instrument is cheap - doesn;t mean that it can't soud...

Hi, late to this thread - but what an interesting one. If (likie me) you tend to admire and play expensive instrumnts, you muight be a little of a musical snob. Therefore (and I admit it) I'll tend...

Just had a "delivery status failure on my e-mail to Jiri

So - if anyone has ANY info on Jiri Lebeda and/or his company - please share !

Andy

Hi Ivan,
Yes- Indian Summer. Just like your first model, which looks very similr to mine which has abalone fret markers and logo. I had John at TAMCO swap over the Allen tailpiece that wesas on my...

Hi Folks,

I have a fine "F5 Premium" in "summer gold" or some such term. It was made in 2005, and is my second Lebeda. My picking partner Mando Bob has an excellent F5 standard built in, I think...