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bassrun		#21	[-]
(06/25/09 4:00 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Archbacker wrote: The banjo picker is a young Pete Seeger, is it not? Darn tootin'. --John
Spook69		#22	[-]
(06/25/09 5:16 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The banjo picker is a young Pete Seeger, is it not? Taken during his 2nd world war service, I believe.
gfspencer		#23	[-]
(06/25/09 7:51 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The photos are great! Keep em coming. 1969 Brazilian Rosewood D-35 2001 D-41DF - Dan Fogelberg 2004 LXM - Little Martin 2008 JC-16ME Maple Aura 2009 Grand J12-40E
Spook69	Halloween Hoedown: 1940	#24	[-]
(06/28/09 3:35 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	This photo by Arthur Rothstein has been colourised by computer software.
jay mom n dad		#25	[-]
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BruceHerrmann		#26	[-]
(06/28/09 2:42 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	These old photos are great, thanks to everyone who has been posting, I hope there are more to come. I may be imagining this, but if you look closely on all photos large enough to see the strings, it seems that the gauge in about every case seems heavy. I know this is not a reliable way to determine gauge but they just look like they were using at least what we would call medium and in many cases, heavy. This is no big surprise as we have discussed this before but a couple of these photos would seem to indicate that it's true. Heavier gauge strings were common. I think the need to project due to the microphones (or absence of them) and what strings were available dictated this. Any thoughts? One more thing, interesting how the fiddle in the colorized photo did not take any color, seems pretty much immune to the colorization process....in fact it's the color of the wooden panels on the wall. Makes you wonder if they were similar in color. ...and I hope the cat's reaction is not to the music, he seems pretty upset. Last Edited By: BruceHerrmann 06/28/09 2:46 PM. Edited 2 times.
skluthery		#27	[-]
(06/28/09 5:24 PM) Martin Warranty Service Provider Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	A few years back I bought a considerable amount of new old stock merchandise from an elderly and retired music merchant in my area. I was surprised to see that he had hundreds of very old (40s and 50s probably) sets of Martin heavy gauge strings in their original packaging, unsold. I asked him about this given that I don't think I've ever even seen a set of heavy gauge strings offered in any modern guitar shops. His reply was that back in the day most players preferred the heavy gauge due to the volume and projection they got when using them. Sort of explains why Martin dropped scalloped bracing and why so many old guitars have had bridges and bridge plates repaired as well as other structural top issues addressed with repair over the years. Steve Kovacik Kovacik Guitars and Fretted Instrument Repair www.guitar-repair.com
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Howard Klepper		#31	[-]
(06/28/09 5:44 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm not sure what the parameters fo this thread are, but here are a few I like: Mozzani, who was Maccaferri's teacher, is in the middle here: The Knudsen family: Those Gibson mandolin gals again:
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geetaraug		#35	[-]
(06/28/09 6:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Great photographs . Thank you to all that contributed . Oh , to actually have a time machine. Unlike the story, I wouldn't go to the future , I'd go back in time to the past. These pictures are fascinating .
Rockradstone		#36	[-]
(06/28/09 6:24 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Guess who...?
BruceHerrmann		#37	[-]
(06/28/09 6:37 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	These photos are incredible. Am I wrong or does it seem like there's a book in here somewhere. The History of Guitars, Mandolins and Banjos in American Life, or something like that. Seems like there would be more than enough photos to fill a book and it would provide great information an history. Gibson really had a built-in marketing plan with all those mandolin orchestras. I'm sure Martin must have been jealous. Does anyone know if there was a financial incentive to buy the mandolin from Gibson if you were part of an orchestra- an orchestra discount if you will. Martin had a few teachers who encouraged their students to buy Martins but nothing on the scale of these mandolin orchestras. Brilliant. Please keep these photos coming, they are really amazing. And Steve's comment on string gauge just confirms what we've thought for some time, this switch from gut to steel was a really big deal. The forces generated were pretty different. In retrospect, you'd think they would have made more of an effort to identify those guitars made for steel strings just from a warranty point of view, seem like it might have saved a lot of pulled bridges and bellied tops etc. Not to beat a dead horse, but this nut issue being an identifying factor in the gut/steel string issue may not be so far off. Wouldn't the steel string guitar treble grooves be a bit smaller than the gut string nuts? Seems like the gut strings, at least the top three, would have to have had a larger nut slot for gut strings. I could be way off but I wonder... Thanks again to all who post and I give up on the guess who question...give us a hint...
Rockradstone		#38	[-]
(06/28/09 7:05 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Bruce---It's the Man in White!
BruceHerrmann		#39	[-]
(06/28/09 7:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thanks, great photo of him! All of these photos just show how important the stringed instrument was in the lives of folks back then. People tended to have one guitar-or mandolin etc., play it often and folks just generally enjoyed music as a past-time. Now, we are so bombarded with entertainment choices that just getting together to play instruments is almost a lost art. Except, in Bluegrass. One of it's great gifts to music, the chance for people to get together with one common interest- playing music. That's a pretty valuable thing.
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