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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 123733, member: 55"]Lyon and Healy apparently imported violins from a number of sources; and some of them were quite good makers, thus the occasional sale of a L&H violin in the thousands. But as with their mandolins, many of the makers were not well-known, or even particularly good, so the value of an old L&H instrument can be anywhere from $50 on up. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I started with classical violin also; branched out into folk guitar, and mandolin and fiddling for the last 25 years or so. I don't have any samples with the new violin. But my main music website (I've got Northwest Coast Native art websites also) does have some clips of my music with various bands, including some with violin, but mostly mandolin; <a href="http://bluemando.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bluemando.com" rel="nofollow">http://bluemando.com</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Gulf Coast Highway has some nice violin...</p><p><a href="http://civilservants.homestead.com/files/08_-_Golf_Coast_Highway.mp3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://civilservants.homestead.com/files/08_-_Golf_Coast_Highway.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://civilservants.homestead.com/files/08_-_Golf_Coast_Highway.mp3</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and with my wife on autoharp and me on octave mandolin, Shebeg Shemore is a nice track:</p><p><a href="http://nsyn.homestead.com/files/05_-_Track_5.mp3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://nsyn.homestead.com/files/05_-_Track_5.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://nsyn.homestead.com/files/05_-_Track_5.mp3</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you have any Youtube videos of yourself and husband, there is a thread for "show your talent" at <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/show-us-your-talent.2070/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/show-us-your-talent.2070/">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/show-us-your-talent.2070/</a> </p><p>and I'm sure we'd all enjoy hearing you play. I've got a track or two on that thread, at post #56. There are lots of very talented folks on this board!</p><p><br /></p><p>(Apologies to Gorn for the thread hijacking; I admit I'm very bad in that respect.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 123733, member: 55"]Lyon and Healy apparently imported violins from a number of sources; and some of them were quite good makers, thus the occasional sale of a L&H violin in the thousands. But as with their mandolins, many of the makers were not well-known, or even particularly good, so the value of an old L&H instrument can be anywhere from $50 on up. I started with classical violin also; branched out into folk guitar, and mandolin and fiddling for the last 25 years or so. I don't have any samples with the new violin. But my main music website (I've got Northwest Coast Native art websites also) does have some clips of my music with various bands, including some with violin, but mostly mandolin; [URL]http://bluemando.com[/URL] Gulf Coast Highway has some nice violin... [URL]http://civilservants.homestead.com/files/08_-_Golf_Coast_Highway.mp3[/URL] and with my wife on autoharp and me on octave mandolin, Shebeg Shemore is a nice track: [URL]http://nsyn.homestead.com/files/05_-_Track_5.mp3[/URL] If you have any Youtube videos of yourself and husband, there is a thread for "show your talent" at [URL]https://www.antiquers.com/threads/show-us-your-talent.2070/[/URL] and I'm sure we'd all enjoy hearing you play. I've got a track or two on that thread, at post #56. There are lots of very talented folks on this board! (Apologies to Gorn for the thread hijacking; I admit I'm very bad in that respect.)[/QUOTE]
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