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What fun!! Thanks so much to Jeff and Noam for making this "tasting" one to remember!!

"It's a mandolin-centric world." Thanks to Mitch Kokai of WPTF in Raleigh North Carolina for conducting a great interview!! See you all at IBMA Raleigh!

thanks MK in NC; always great to be a guest on "State of Things" with Frank Stasio; a great show and lots of fun!

Henry and Adrian, I will be in Italy playing Rybka (Feb 18, 1924) from october 25 thru Nov 18. would love to catch up with you guys if you have any thoughts toward some travel during that time. ...

Great idea. That is basically how I did the measurements, did not think to take photographs. Will try to get around to that. And you are exactly right, that is the way to get out the Virzi, and...

Thank you so much for your insight and your research. It is very interesting to see your observations on this, and it prompted me to look about the shop and get out mandolins to measure. It goes...

Some photos for you on this day: http://www.mandolincentral.com/rybka

With great enthusiasm, I celebrate the Eighteenth of February; that is the date inscribed on the label of many of my very favorite mandolins. Today marks the birth of these mandolins, exactly 92...

In the early 90s, coming home from a gig on April 1, I was in the middle of a 20-plus car pile up on the bridge over the New River during a freak blizzard that came out of nowhere. I was badly...

This is a great example of good-hearted people taking time to do the right thing: much thanks to the friend who placed the forum post last year and the gentleman who found a great sounding old Gibson...

The famous one I referred to is "Hoss"...the amazing axe of the even more amazing Sam Bush. To me the FON seems unreadable, although the mandolin archive lists it as part of the "C" batch, which...

An Absolutely Marvelous find just landed in Mandolin Central: a pair of consecutively serial numbered F-5s, number 2 and number 3 of the factory order number 801-D batch from 1938...and, they are in...

Bach, Loar, Thile: absolutely stunning. Just received my copy in the mail. It occurs to me that 90 years later Lloyd Loar's dream has finally come true: the mandolin soloist has achieved what has...

Hi! Tony Williamson here, reporting from Merlefest 2013 with plans to provide another "Lloyd Loar Mandolins" performance at the PIT tomorrow (Friday), at 4:45. I will be focusing on Loar Era...

We now have the website updated with more information & photos regarding F-5 #82427: http://www.mandolincentral.com/instlist.html . Any questions or comments are welcome, feel free to contact me at...

I would like to make one point about the technological efforts of my work: As on my recent CD, "Lloyd Loar Mandolins" (http://www.mandolincentral.com/lloar.html), in the videos I have produced I...

Yes, as you can tell I was pretty excited to get this one...a very inspiring instrument! I will be putting it up for sale at Mandolin Central this weekend and will have it at IBMA if anyone would...

One more thing that I have neglected to mentioned...the smell!!! hope this does not sound weird, but my goodness, there is an amazing and wonderful olfactory sensation to open this case and put the...

(Do)... you use stainless steel frets on your Loar?

Yes, on Lloyd, Fred and Cleveland, who had both been refretted many times, I have Dudenbostel refret with stainless and I love it. ...

I love the nickname suggestions! keep em coming...

[QUOTE=Lynn Dudenbostel;1062837]MandoPete... there really is no modern fret wire that is an exact match for what came in mandolins in the 1920's. The Jescar stainless 0.040" is very close.....Tony...

Finding the right nickname has to be a very natural and organic process that cannot be rushed...a few ideas have cropped up, but none have stuck. Out of respect for the privacy of the family we will...

Thanks for all the thoughts, as you can tell I am really excited about this and very pleased to share it with you. I will try to answer and clarify some of the ideas mentioned. In the case I found...

There is some talk here of making the next volume a DVD instead of a CD... Same high quality audiophile audio recording, just feeding the Neumanns directly into the iPad camera. I think this might...

ps. Due to the amazing response to this project, I making plans to begin recording Lloyd Loar Mandolins Vol. 2 with another amazing dozen; stay tuned! tw