Happy Birthday Scott! and many Thanks! for the Cafe site!
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Happy Birthday Scott! and many Thanks! for the Cafe site!
Hi Mark-
I'm pretty sure that's a young Ronnie Gilbert in the lower right hand corner of that Woody & Huddie picture.
Thanks Dan! Great Story! Happy Birthday George!
Hi Folks-
go to James Stiltner's YouTube channel and type in Ralph Stanley Playing The Mandolin - East Virginia Blues
sorry- haven't learned how to use the "embed" feature and my computer is...
When WilliamSmith refers to a "5" scale, I think he means an F5 scale, where the neck joins the body at the 15th fret, instead of the 12th fret joint used for the F2, F4, F7, F10 series instruments.
Hi Folks-
I think the white top A-3 was discontinued by Gibson for the year 1923, and the distinctive curlicue headstock inlay below "The Gibson" went with it. It's certainly possible that some...
Hi OneChordTrick-
Looks like a Breedlove. Not sure what the model style is designated.
Bob
Thanks Pete!
Absolutely terrific playing by all!
Hi Don-
Have you used one of these enough to give a review, or to comment on to what they seem comparable? Beveled? Do they work through the strings as smoothly as the BC CT55? Comparable to the...
Hi Folks-
Looks like I need to modify my post #97! After looking closely at the Heritage Auction pix of both the Kessel and Tedesco A50-12 Mandolins, it is more likely that the A40-12 mandolin at...
Hi John-
The one at Elderly is likely the one that belonged to Tommy Tedesco, which Cafe member abaird85 borrowed from the "older gentleman" in the fall of 2017 for a performance. Tommy Tedesco's...
Hi Folks-
I believe that Roy Acuff is the fiddle player in between Byron Berline and John Hartford.
Well played! Thanks for posting!
Thanks Scott!
Back in the late 1930s, or possibly sometime in the 1940s, Gibson built a single experimental F-holed, scrolled mandolin that was called a Model M or Style M. When Dave Harvey was playing w/Larry...
Hi Chanmandolin-
The picture of the Bill Monroe contract w/Carleton Haney just happens to be for the Sept 3,4,5, 1965 Fincastle Bluegrass Festival held on the Labor Day weekend. Fincastle 1965 is...
Adam Steffey on mandolin. the banjo sounds like a towel has been stuffed into the pot. however, playing is all good+!
I played one of these that Paul had on hand at the January, 2016 Anaheim NAMM show. Very responsive, w/variable and controllable volume even w/a plain old Stevens bar, AND terrific "traditional"...
1091!
Still plenty of time for a bunch more!
Voted.
Good luck!
It may be useful to remember that while the FON establishes in which batch of instruments a given mandolin was included and when construction was started on that batch, the serial numbers were not...
With top and back binding, sound hole rosette, headstock logo, it looks like 1922-24 Snake A-2. Jrs had no rosette, no logo, no binding, no truss rod, and many seem to have had the waverly cloud...
It seems that Loar signed F5 mandolins, H5 mandolas, K5 mandocellos (guitar-bodied), and L5 guitars, but not the TL tenor lutes (A style mandola size body w/f holes & 24 fret banjo neck), or any...
Based on surrounding serial numbers in the Archive here, your instrument was probably sent out from the factory in 1919 or 1920.
To get a closer handle on when the batch of instruments within...
Interestingly enough, there was not only a bowlback mandolin on the Endurance, but also a British manufactured banjo that expedition meteorologist and medical doctor Leonard Hussey brought w/his gear...