As another player of a Little Wonder mandolin banjo, who has taken my share of abuse on the Forum because of my choice of instruments, I thought that...
I've both enjoyed and participated in this meandering thread. However, I'm sure there are better places on the internet to discuss the inadequacy of...
That's right, and the schwa covers fifty per cent or more of the vowel sounds in Canadian English (like most statistics, this one was made up on the...
In Canada, we use "jail" -- I'd like to say that it's pronounced as it is in the USA, but that's too much of a generalization. I'll leave that one to...
And speaking of linguistics, there's a speech form that Canadians and no one else uses, called "Canadian raising" that consists of raising the tip of...
But to get back to my comment #4, above, is this instrument a ukulele mandolin or a banjo mandolin? The OP calls him or herself a "newbie" so this is...
From Nova Scotia, living in Ottawa. Play old-time (Canadian old-time, that is) and Cape Breton fiddle. Play mostly blues on mandolin and banjolin.
Location:
Ottawa, Canada
Occupation:
retired (academic) folklorist
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Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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