What's New: 50th Birthday

11.20.08

We just added one more amazingly creative entry to our PROFESSSIONAL'S SOUND LAB. The latest is a Choro Nouveau dazzler from master jazz theoretician and
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11.19.08

We thought the cover art of the "Getting Into Jazz Mandolin" book was cool enough to actually wear, and decided to offer something a little
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11.17.08

It's a rough job, but somebody has to do it. We've had the assignment of auditioning the new Eastman/Giacomel DG1 Mandolin, a project closely captained
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June 13, 2008 | 50th Birthday

Special thanks to all of you who weighed in yesterday with kind words on the 50th Birthday of Site Administrator, Ted Eschliman. It's great to hear these words of encouragement; we hope to devote many more healthy years to the site mission of making mandolin mainstream through introducing jazz vocabulary.

Birthday Party.

Posted by Ted at June 13, 2008 05:35 AM

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