Rest in Peace Ivan...
Rest in Peace Ivan...
very sad news. I too had frequent correspondence with Ivan via email. He was always extremely helpful and friendly. My condolences to the family. RIP.
May we all seek to emulate his better ways. RIP Ivan.
Phil
“Sharps/Flats” ≠ “Accidentals”
F Cancer.
I feel so bad for his wife & family knowing what they have gone through and will continue to go through. It's just the worst way to loose a loved one.
Here's an update from Ivan's friend in the UK, Ian Sharp. A photo of the newly planted memorial tree.
The story is in the link below. I feel better posting a hopeful image to supplant the one of the original tree, cut down too soon.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ne...memory-friend/
Sorry to hear RIP Ivan.
Rest in Peace Ivan, and it was great to get your helpful messages.
A fitting gesture from Ivan's friend. I also had been corresponding with Ivan this past year and had missed our texts back and forth. My sincere condolences to all who knew and loved him. He was a good egg here, for sure.
Jamie
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
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Rest in Peace Ivan - you will be missed.
I have been thinking of Ivan the last few weeks and wondering how he was doing. This is sad news indeed. Condolences to his wife, family and friends. You are much missed here Ivan.
THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE JUST FOR YOUR SMILE!
Sad to hear this. I corresponded with Ivan back and forth over many years. He will be missed. A true gentleman and a fine picker.
RIP.
Gibson F5 'Harvey' Fern, Gibson F5 'Derrington' Fern
Distressed Silverangel F 'Esmerelda' aka 'Maxx'
Northfield Big Mon #127
Ellis F5 Special #288
'39 & '45 D-18's, 1950 D-28.
Another picker here who will sadly miss Ivan - one of the small number of Brits around here I'd hoped to bump into in person one day, and now it's not to be.
Definitely not forgotten.
RIP Ivan -- condolences to his family. I was away and just got back on the computer, saw that there were new posts on this thread and hoped for the best, or at least an update from Ivan. Was so sorry to read of his death but touched by what his friend did. He will be sadly missed.
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
You go Ivan, paying it forward with your banjo.
"A sudden clash of thunder, the mind doors burst open, and lo, there sits old man Buddha-nature in all his homeliness."
CHAO-PIEN
What is that, Sean?
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
"I play BG so that's what I can talk intelligently about." A line I loved and pirated from Mandoplumb
This time comes to all of us eventually. Though when we're younger, the idea of it seems very far away. A man could do worse than having lived in such a way that so many people miss him when he's gone.
Condolences and prayers for Ivan's family and many friends.
Yup Flatrock, exactly.
Thanks guys, I’ve never felt the need for that particular string changing aid. But, I do remember that from Ivan some long time back!
Clever fellow!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
I didn't know Ivan, but am sending prayers to his family.
The reaction to Ivan's death, underlines the fact that we really are friends here. A tribute to the nature of this site, the thoughtful way in which it's administered, and the general bond among musicians in general, and mandolinists in particular.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
I notice the store I frequent, Gryphon Strings, has quite a few really nice 60s instruments and they describe them something like, a long time friend of the store had this since the 70s, and we did the neck set twenty years ago and it was well cared for though it has plenty of honest ware. Me thinks the friend of the store is no longer with us. I sometimes wonder as I hold my hundred year old mandolin, what tales it could tell. I like to think it’s former owners left something of themselves in the instrument. We are certainly just passing through.
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
Rest In Peace, Ivan.
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo
Don't know the exact date but it seems to me it was about this time last year we lost our friend Ivan. He was a good Cafe buddy and great internet pen-pal. I miss him.
I've had an image in my mind lately of of the Good Lord, in classic flowing white robe and beard, embracing him and saying "You were right Ivan. Most of that stuff wasn't really Bluegrass".
"I play BG so that's what I can talk intelligently about." A line I loved and pirated from Mandoplumb
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