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New photographs of Loar F5s

We've been catching up on our backlog a bit here, and have quite a few new Loar photogarphs in the pipeline. Darryl Wolfe and friends have been going through the prints and slides they collected back in the heyday of the blugrass festival scene, and I've also been catching up on what's in my inbox. Pictured here is Lloyd Loar in 1927, from an instructional book he published on the Tenor Banjo.

Here are the first of the new images from the depths of my inbox, new photos of F5 # 75320 and F5 #75691

Dan's Spring 2009 Fretboard Journal Article

I wrote a story about the journey luthier Jamie Wiens and I went through in the process of Jamie's wonderful copy of the Schultz Loar. Jamie's F5 #23 now spends a lot of time on my lap, and you can see some more details and photos here at the archive.

I'm very happy with how the article turned out. It's safe to say if you're reading this page you'll like the rest of the magazine too. Make sure to check out the Fretboard Journal, if acoustic instruments are your thing you're sure to find something you like there.

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