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    Re: Happy Birthday Scott Tichenor

    Happy Birthday Scott! and many Thanks! for the Cafe site!
  2. Re: Old photos - a hodgepodge of musicians - folkies +

    Hi Mark-

    I'm pretty sure that's a young Ronnie Gilbert in the lower right hand corner of that Woody & Huddie picture.
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    Re: George Gruhn with his favorite guitar

    Thanks Dan! Great Story! Happy Birthday George!
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    Re: We don't need no steenking flat picks!

    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...
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    Re: Mystery Mandolin Oddity!

    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.
  6. Re: Upside down "Whale" inlay on headstock - Where from?

    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...
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    Re: Anyone know what mandolin he’s playing?

    Hi OneChordTrick-

    Looks like a Breedlove. Not sure what the model style is designated.

    Bob
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    Re: A Train - Homer and Jethro

    Thanks Pete!

    Absolutely terrific playing by all!
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    Re: New Fender 1.5mm pick

    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...
  10. Re: Barney Kessel Playing A Gibson 12 String Mandolin?

    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...
  11. Re: Barney Kessel Playing A Gibson 12 String Mandolin?

    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...
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    Re: Who's Who in this Photo

    Hi Folks-

    I believe that Roy Acuff is the fiddle player in between Byron Berline and John Hartford.
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    Re: My Last Days On Earth

    Well played! Thanks for posting!
  14. Thanks Scott!

    Thanks Scott!
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    Re: What is "m style"?

    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...
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    Re: Bill Monroe Contract 1965

    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...
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    Re: Dwight Yoakum on Late Night

    Adam Steffey on mandolin. the banjo sounds like a towel has been stuffed into the pot. however, playing is all good+!
  18. Re: Leroy Mack Beard reso guitar in classifieds.

    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"...
  19. Re: You can help me again, and this time it's FREE!

    1091!

    Still plenty of time for a bunch more!
  20. Re: You can help me again, and this time it's FREE!

    Voted.

    Good luck!
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    Re: Gibson Snakehead Model ID

    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...
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    Re: Gibson Snakehead Model ID

    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...
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    Re: What sounds like a Loar?

    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...
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    Re: Looking for information- birthday

    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...
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    Re: A Mandolin on the Endurance?

    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...
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