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    Default Re: Jimmy Martin's F4....

    Begs the question, where is that mandolin now?
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    Quote Originally Posted by flatthead View Post
    Seck played an F4 as well throughout most of his F&S tenure.
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    No Seck played an F2' Duffy also played an F2 on early Country Gentleman recordings.

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    Default Re: Jimmy Martin's F4....

    Has this mandolin been refinished? It seems less red.

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    I see someone bumped this old 2005 thread up. The Jimmy Martin F4 is still in Ray's hands and was last offered for sale around $60,000. Yes it has been repaired/refinished several times. Might explain why he still has it. The Curly Seck was an F2 that had been renecked by Gibson in the 50's and then again redone by Mike Longworth to look like an F4. I believe David Grisman has that now and it was refinished back to it's Curly era. I saw no mention that Monroe did record several cuts with an F4 and there are several live tapes of him with an F4. When you add to that fact that Monroe also used the F7, a '64 F5, the '45 Epiphone Strand, and even a few A50s leads you to Monroe really didn't care what he had but he preferred the Loar era F5s.

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    The Jimmy Martin F4 is still in Ray's hands and was last offered for sale around $60,000.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlanN View Post
    Yeah! Remember the Duane Eddy F-5?
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