Maggie's Farm

Barbeque grills too. :>)

I'll bid a thousand Quatloos or 4 bars of gold pressed latinum. :>)

Well isn't that interesting. I was born at Columbia in the ancient year of 1946.

Huh - how about that.

That's an interesting guitar. You don't see many instruments with quilted maple bodies and necks with spruce sound boards. It looks like an iron wood fretboard to boot. The fretting is kind of curious - I've never seen a guitar with anything similar. That combination fretboard is also interesting - I'd bet good money it was tuned in open chording - probably E or G given the short length of the neck.

I few years back, I became fascinated by Maraichi music - in particular the guitarrón mexicano . My buddy Dick Erickson of Re-Tunes found one for me and I played it for all of two weeks - I didn't have the hand or arm strength to deal with the constant damping of the strings - that's a tough instrument to play.

With respect to the banjo, eh. As a solo instrument, it gets on my nerves. As part of a bluegrass band, I can dig it. :>)

This is my current love affair - an Ibanez AK95 DVS with custom WB hand wound pickups - Heaven and Hell edition. :>)

No 'Mam. My Mom's family was from Milwaukee, my Dad's from Salem, MA. My mother's maiden name was Mantyh if that helps any.