catharine h. connell

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Bill Monroe is a badass.  Around 1951, he got his Gibson F5 Mandolin back from the Gibson repair shop in their Kalamzoo, MI factory. He was so unsatisfied with the repairs that he took out his pocket knife and gouged the Gibson logo from the headstock. “Gibson was so bad with it, I had to take the name of Gibson off of here.”  Years later, Monroe and Gibson made up after he accepted their offer to again repair the same mandolin. The defaced mandolin headstock veneer sold at auction for $37,500 on December 3, 2009. photo credit: Christies Bill Monroe - The Wayfaring Stranger
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