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Location: Denver, CO

Loar the Master of the Archtop

Lloyd Loar was Mandolin Player before he started his design work for Gibson. What he achieve in sound with the Archtop Mandolin and Guitar is truly amazing.

In looking for a Mandolin I played some Ovations which are basically flat top Mandolins. The Flat Top Ovations sound pretty good and I was tempted to buy one. However the Flat Top Mando does not have something the Archtop Mandolin has in sound.

It’s near impossible to describe a sound, one must hear the sound and have a good enough ear to perceive the finer points of the Tonal Quality. However the Archtop Mandolin definitely has something in sound the Flat Top Mandolin does not have.

Loar with his good ear for the Mandolin was able to transfer to the Mandolin some of the principles that are no doubt used in the Building of Violins. I’m sure this was not easy since the Violin is a Bowed instrument and the Mandolin is a Plucked instrument.

As the Stradivarius design is the most copied of all Violin Designs, the Loar F-5 is the by far the most copied Mandolin Design. There is little wonder that the Loar Mandolins made when Loar was employed as the design engineer and personally tuned by Lloyd Loar, and signed by the man himself are the most prized of all Mandolins today and sell for $100,000.00 plus with the Bill Monroe Lloyd Loar Signed Mandolin being worth over a million ( $1,000,000.00 ) dollars.

Lloyd Loar Designed the F-5 but Bill Monroe made the Mandolin achieve the popularity it has today.

Most all the hand crafters of Mandolin offer an instrument that is made using the Lloyd Loar F-5 Archtop Mandolin Design. I’m sure that even the cheapie F-Hole Archtop Mandolins that are made in Asia use the Loar F-5 Design as the cheapie Violins boast of having the Stradivari Design. Though most all the Violin Makers today copy the Stradivari no one has ever built a Violin that can equal the sound of the Violins made by Stradivari himself. I tend to think this is also true of the Loar F-5 Mandolin that the man himself tuned and signed.

Lee

Location: Denver, CO

Video Streaming is beginning to take off big time on the internet. Google is offering free Video Streaming to anyone and that includes more than music.

I checked out Google Streaming Videos the free Videos from the Unsigned Artists are pretty bad as videos and the level of music artistry is pretty low. The Musicians have someone with a Video Cam to take a pictures of them singing or playing the Guitar or whatever. Of course the musicians are thrilled to see themselves on the Internet, on the Google Free Streaming Web Site and I suppose friends and family like the very amateur level videos of someone they know. But the average person cannot be much turned on by the very amateur level Videos the Unsigned Artists are posting on Google Free Video Streaming.

Will some worth while Music Videos come from local and unsigned musicians in the future? Good question and one that I cannot answer. Local Bands can get fairly decent recordings made of their music, or do it themselves. Making Music Videos that are worth watching is much more difficult than recording the sound, just the music with no pictures.

The sound and video quality is often not good on the home Music Videos. However there is something refreshing and enjoyable about watching the home music videos that are on Google. The Streaming home music videos on Google have a kind of lure that brings you back again and again.

On Google Video you can search for about any type of music you can imagine.

Since Google is a search engine Google Video is set up so you can search on most anything.

You get the idea you an search on most any subject in Google Video and find Video that someone has made on the subject.