I saw your name on this thread, and I had a sneaking suspicion that you were going to post a picture of the pianny I'm still green with envy....

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Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece.

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"Let low-country intruder approach a cove
And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
For size, honesty, and intent."
John Foster West

I do have a herd of plectrum axes..... photos of them could be seen at: http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/member.php?u=2536

Tadaaa, the new banjo:





I can't play that thing, but I enjoy it big time: lovely vintage tone, lovely appearance, compact and light...can't wait to get home for practising!

i'm going to show you mine as well.
http://mahagaine.com/banjo/
the website was made as sort of a presentation when I thought that I want to sell it.
then I've decided that I love it too much

Wow, that's a nice one. I like the ornamentation, very tasteful - it is not as overdone as on many other banjos I saw so far. Good that you kept it!

This is my bowed psaltery. She was built by Eric Meier of Phantasy Psalteries. His work is fantastic and my psaltery has a beautiful sound. I am addicted.

The chair (a rocker) came from an antique store on Howard St. in Baltimore. (The fiddle, incidentally, from Holzapfel's Violin shop--no longer extant--on Fayette St. in Baltimore) As I recall, re the chair--Jeff had to have its little arts&crafts self. It was in not-so-good condition, and took some gluing and clamping to be the solid rocker it is today.

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a few stories...
and thoughts.

Hey Trout!
Thanks for the compliment, love my mandos! That one, in particular, is my baby; you should hear the resonance, unbelievable!
Cheers,
k.

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Every time I turn around, I wonder where I've been.
Time to stop turning round, I guess.

Joe Foley mandolin #268


Here's the back

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That's real pretty. Looks like it was inspired by the Portuguese guitar and mandolin. It has the same round body and a similar head ornament.

I'm mystified. How come the dowel (on this banjo its square, not round) made of bird's eye maple, but the neck is unfigured (albeit nicely quarter-sawn) maple? I assume that the dowel must be mortised into the base of the neck under the fretboard.

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And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')

C.S. Lewis

Not mine.

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Rose tint my world. Keep me safe from my trouble and pain.
白飞梦

I can't imagine the resonance on that thing being sublime.

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a few stories...
and thoughts.

Beautiful mando!

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