floridas sertoma youth ranch festival , anyone going
the festival is this weekend, i was wondering if any florida members might be going. im planning on going on friday and staying till sunday. hopefully there will be lots of good jamming going on.
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I need some help from all you ODE experts. I bought this Baldwin Ode for 400 today and it sounds great. I was just wondering if it looks legitimate to you. How much would you say it is worth?
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For travelers looking for a deal........ You have to watch until the end, I thought it was over when they started to clap. This is funny....and gets funnier as it continues on ...the Irish sure know...
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View ArticleNeed some help appraising a Dale Small banjo (moved)
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View ArticleThe mechanic and the cardilogist!
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View ArticleDoug Dillard in ICU in Nashville
To all the Scruggs style pickers out there, one of the best players of the three-finger style, Doug Dillard of the Dillards (and the Darlings on the Andy Griffith Show), is in the ICU at a hospital in...
View ArticleCan anyone identify this make of banjo?
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View Article8 String UPDATED: It's... ALIVE!!!!!
Hehehehehehe!!! The bridge testing is done, the strings have been tested and the winners installed, the frets are dressed and polished, the action is adjusted, and the head is tensioned. Tonight,...
View ArticleWTB: Metal OB rim or inexpensive metal or synthetic OB rim banjo
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Building a Uke
This is not an ad for StewMac or anything, it is just where I got the kit from. But for the past month I have been putting one together with the help of a mate, John Copley. It is all here on my...
View ArticleMister Punch - Joe Morley - The Mike Moss banjo duet
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View Article3 months
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View ArticleOh......!...Cat..marbulls!!!
These...vial creachers!!!....Is there no place.....saycrid!!???Right outah tha startin gate ths moanin.....gottah step on ...Cat marbulls...Camoflauged in tha sheep wool carpet!!!!Barefoot....Not...
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I read the Trayvon Martin 15-page topic. What changed that actually resulted in its being locked? Seems to me everything after page 3 is the exact same stuff as on page 15 so I'd like to know what...
View ArticleThis ought tio get interesting. Stay tuned and see localbear on the big ac
County to photograph litterers Board approves camera purchase Wednesday, March 28, 2012 By DEBBIE HALL - Bulletin Staff Writer Unbeknownst to litterers, Henry County soon will be watching. The...
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