Bluegrass Jam Along/Roger Siminoff - Celebrating Lloyd Loar and the Gibson F5 Mandolin
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| Roger Siminoff - Celebrating Lloyd Loar and the Gibson F5 Mandolin | |
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| Podcast | Bluegrass Jam Along |
| Date | 2024-07-17 |
| About | Roger Siminoff |
| Length | Expression error: Unexpected round operator. min |
| Audio | Audio file |
My guest this week is Roger Siminoff. Not only is Roger an authority on instrument making, the physics of music and tap tuning, he's also an expert on the life and work of Lloyd Loar.Loar worked at Gibson in the early 1920s and oversaw the production of some truly remarkable, game changing instruments - most notably the F5 mandolin, which went on to become an integral part of bluegrass music and shape how we see mandolins for the next 100 years.We talked about Lloyd Loar's background, why his...
