It was a gift from her father, Johnny Cash, who posted a handwritten note inside its sound hole.

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Then on a stay in Mexico in 1956, he made the visual discovery that determined his career: he drew a mandolin with a tiny sound-hole, which made the instrument look bigger than normal.

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It landed in this hole because the folks on Beacon Hill like the sound of universal healthcare a whole lot more than they like the cost of it.

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Jones says that, when he worked with Young in the '90s, he admired Young's big guitar sound, and that's what he tried to replicate on Potato Hole.

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Dane A. Davis, sound effects editor, told the crowd, "Wow, so this is where the rabbit hole goes, " a familiar line to those who know the film and a phrase that editor Zach Staenberg echoed in his own acceptance speech.

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