by Christine | Mar 14, 2020 | Welcome Column
Okay I could be wrong. But I’ll wager that most of you CBA folks are not in a bluegrass band, or any band for that matter. Maybe you were in a band, or will be in a band, but are not in a band now. Yes I know, some of you are thinking, “Oh yeah, I’m...
by Christine | Nov 14, 2020 | Welcome Column
So there is this guy named Orville Gibson. He was born in 1865, and he hung around Kalamazoo, Michigan during a significant part of his life. Why is Orville important to mandolins? Because he redesigned what the world knew as a mandolin way back then. I’m...
by Christine | Mar 11, 2018 | Welcome Column
Oh why then should I play? The stage will not reach out and embrace me. Thunderous applause will not reach well worn ears. Why open the case? Why draw the rosin laden bow across waiting hungry strings? Why bother? The ghosts of Howdy Forester and Vassar will...
by Christine | Nov 29, 2020 | Welcome Column
Poem: “Something that arouses strong emotion because of its beauty.”Poet: “A person with special powers of imagination or expression.”Tone: “A musical sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.”Back in 1994 David...
by Christine | Mar 9, 2019 | Welcome Column
been born in 1954 in Cordell Kentucky.gotten your first mandolin at age 5.been on the same stage with Bill Monroe, while playing Bill’s 1923 Gibson Lloyd Loar signed mandolin at age 6.played with Flatt & Scruggs at age 7.joined Ralph Stanley’s band at...
by Christine | Mar 14, 2015 | Welcome Column
If you want an instrumental challenge, trying taking up the fiddle. If you want a life-long pursuit of trying to master a musical instrument, play the fiddle. There is some evidence that the fiddle has its roots in Europe during the 10th century, and by now fiddles...
