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i'm a bass player, and my bass was made by ed in 2020.

I was so in love with my bass i ordered a flat top mandolin from him. i'm not claiming to be much of a mandolin player, but i love this...

I never learned tab. I grew up as a classically trained violin player. I'm pretty good at sight reading and still practice doing it on standard notation. I never learned tab for any instruments (I...

That depends on how you were taught to read standard notation...which in the Italian tradition was a way to sing before you were ever given an instrument.

So I disagree, learning to sight-sing...

This Musescore chart seems useful.

From the same period, here's some fine mandolin playing by Nancy Blake at 33:20. The tunes are: Within A Mile/Durham Rangers/Far from Home/Primrose Lass.

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Unfortunately, I suspect you'll be much harder pressed to find recordings of the others—the Mozart and Beethoven pieces—on 6-string/6-course instruments. I've seen some amateur videos shot by...

Elsewhere, mandopops lamented:



I began reply . . . Lots of recordings of the Vivaldi works on 6-course instruments. Some of my favorites are by Il Giardino Armonico primary soloist Duilio...

I just read that Norman Blake turned 86 on 10th March, and I would like to wish him well.

I saw him play on my first trip to the USA in 1977, and have always enjoyed him ever since.

Thanks for...

I am SO happy to see that Paul Hostetter's website is again available; when I last looked 5 or 6 months ago, it was not. It's a wonderful resource, and he was a frequent poster here.

IIRC, his...

Here is another unreasonable set of Variations on Carnival of Venice by Valentine Abt. The unreasonable part is going back and forth between harmonics and arpeggios!

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Distel is Ray Ventura's nephew. His uncle had a great role in launching jazz in France and led a band which included Henri Salvador who said he has taught his first chords to Sacha before seing the...

Encountering Sacha Distel originally as a middle of the road crooner, I was surprised when I learnt that he had been a decent jazz guitarist and had composed two classic songs: The Good Life and Ma...

There are a number of videos with Distel available on YouTube.

I never bought a mandolin from Jon Lundberg but I did buy my first good banjo from him just before I headed home from being in the service. It was an interesting little shop.

While we do have 12 or so natural harmonics available on the mandolin, I haven't heard them employed as freely as violinists use them in swing jazz.

Grappelli in particular (e.g. 1.00 to 1.04...

I have to tell my F-3 story here. Iwas in high school and it was 1964, and I was thinking I wanted to play mandolin. Super unpopular thing to want to do 60 years ago in small town California! I was...

One of these I've been playing for while, the other is newly restored, not often you get two of these in the same place at the same time!

In addition to the level of decoration, the main...

This is a famous Venezuelan waltz composed by Antonio Carrillo, it is already going to be a century old...:mandosmiley:
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Yes, that's Matt in the red shirt. Next to him is Will Patton and on the right is Jamie Masefield. Pat Melvin is on the bass.

Enjoy!

Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqDEMQZw314
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Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nya2-HSWvJA
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I acquired this via French site Leboncoin - some interesting instruments can appear there but you usually need a French phone number and mailing address.

It needed some attention: raising the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BpXBpp0vQ

Another great version of this tune:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWXqlJ0Zydc

-David

This is one of the all-time great tunes in ANY genre and it's cool to hear all these interpretations. Here's my band rehearsing the tune for our show a couple months back at the Freight & Salvage...

AndyC who used to post regularly here put up this set of backing tracks on SoundCloud back in 2015. I think he played all instruments. He was quite diffident about the tracks at the time - I'm no...