Help - The Mandolin Cafe is being taken over by the Nerds!
Help - The Mandolin Cafe is being taken over by the Nerds!
2015 Chevy Silverado
2 bottles of Knob Creek bourbon
1953 modified Kay string bass named "Bambi"
Fear not, Pete.
It's hard to play mandolin wearing a pocket protector... (Not that *I've* ever tried...)
Some heavy-handed picking.
Is that just because it's a banjo or because it's a lefty?
John Hamlett
www.hamlettinstruments.com
The rarely seen spoon back A-style...
I find this thread interesting because a month ago I bought a house of exactly that style and plan. The style is called "Carpenter Gothic" and its construction dates roughly 1860. Mine is a bit different in exterior details but follows the plan and general appearance exactly. The plan of these houses is a cross, if you visualize a cross laying flat with the base to the left.
Anyway, interesting photos of an interesting painting of an interesting house. If I get a chance I will photograph myself and wife with mandolins in the above pose in front of our new house.
Bart McNeil
Cool. That layout is called "Cruciform".. usually the floor plan of cathedrals. Interesting opportunity for me to tie together my background studying medieval church architecture with mandolins and photoshop ninny-ness
Dan: Yes, it is a perfect cross plan. Also notice the pitch of the roof... very steep (Gothic in feeling) and the vertical thrust of the board and batten siding. The interesting thing Ive found is that the plan is strikingly modern in that all rooms have windows on two sides and the living room and two other first floor rooms have windows on 3 sides. The house is surprisingly modern in feeling for indoor/outdoor living. Very light and airy. Most likely expensive to heat. It is not ornate like later Victorian and I find the simplicity very interesting. The widest floorboard I have found in the house is 16+" in width. The lumber was harvested and milled locally and hand hewn for the large beams.
Lest we forget this is a mandolin site I might add that the floorboards would make a whole lot of really nice mandolins.
Bart McNeil
Them Mandolin Cafe freebies is righteously useful!!!
nice decal placement! that'll teach her for complaining about his practicing...
Alan
"If I get a chance I will photograph myself and wife with mandolins in the above pose in front of our new house."
Hey Bart,
If you are ever in the midwest, you can get a picture of yourself infront of the actual house in the painting. #Its located in Eldon, Iowa and still looks like it does in the painting. #I live about 15 or 20 miles away from it and stop by once or twice a year.
The community of Eldon is working very hard to build a visitors center nearby to have information and tourist stuff available to the public.
Tom
Tedthro, you missed the point. She's keeping her mouth shut to keep from laughing at his idea about using old strings for a hair piece...
-Phil
To correct my comments a few messages above: Although the house is "Carpenter Gothic" in style, Its plan does not form a cross. It is a simplified, smaller version of a Carpenter Gothic house. I misinterpreted the house image in the painting.
Sorry about that...
Bart McNeil
Bart,
I was wondering when you were going to correct that.
mandollusional Mike
Curious's version was such an inspirational addition, I couldn't help myself. Before Goth was Goth … call this one "American Grotesque."
Sure could've found a more productive way to spend my morning.
Arlen, that's GREAT!! All it needs is Ace "Fraily" on banjo!
Gibson A-9
Fender FM-63
Gibson A-12
(Just for starters.......)
OK, but how come he's not doing the Gene Simmons tongue thing?
Play, play, play!
Jacob Hawkins
Nope, nope, to be authentic, you gotta scratch out the 'Gibson' with your Barlow knife. Getting t.o.ed at Gibby first helps!Originally Posted by (jefflester @ Oct. 21 2004, 14:20)
Gotta put black electrical tape over Gibson.
"If you've got time to breathe, you've got time for music," Briscoe Darling
Django is close enough for any forum! #Anyone who can play like that with only 2 good fingers and a thumb is okay in my book.
"If you've got time to breathe, you've got time for music," Briscoe Darling
That's just wrong!
"If you've got time to breathe, you've got time for music," Briscoe Darling
Do you think I could use MSPaint?
"If you've got time to breathe, you've got time for music," Briscoe Darling
Mr. and Mrs. Mando enjoy "playing" with their new son.
Now..I like that..
Darryl G. Wolfe, The F5 Journal
www.f5journal.com
You guys are INSANE. I LOVE it! I was looking through these posts and nearly chuckled myself into incontenence.
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