Try to find a mandolin that doesn’t have ADHD.
Try to find a mandolin that doesn’t have ADHD.
Matt sometimes gives courses with 2 different time slots to accommodate folks on other continents. His lessons cover a variety of musical genres.
So I've taken a few of Matt Flinner's zoom classes, and they've been at 9PM eastern (which is a tough hour for me, not being a night owl). So 10AM for you? Doesn't sound too bad to me, depending on...
Trying a fun little exercise of learning a Ronnie McCoury solo a day. Maybe I underestimated how difficult this would be but let's find out :))
I usually post majority of my videos on social media...
Sierra Hull has a video about relatively easy steps to improve your tone that don’t depend on practice and experience with techniques that take some time for many to advance tone quality. You’ve...
I've only had mine for a few months and it's quickly become one of my go to instruments. My avitar is a Girouard 2 point with a cedar top and the Collings is giving it a run for the money. I'm not a...
I have played a Collings MTO, trying it out. At Pickers Supply in Fredericksburg VA, if I remember right. I fell in love with it immediately. But alas I had a bit too much impulse control concurrent...
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I prefer the oval over f hole for jazz playing. Much less percussive and makes jazz phrasing much easier to my ear. Plus I like the warm fuller sound.
Yes, ovals are a lot of fun. Just picked up this nice Collings MT-O with a gloss top. I'm in the honeymoon phase, but I have a feeling it's a keeper.
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Count me in, I love the oval sound. '24 A Jr and and Collings MT2-O here. Owned plenty others also. The Gibson is loud and cranky and sonorous and a finicky little thing - a true joy, the pinnacle of...
I have played a Collings oval with the hybrid design and also seen on MandoLessons Baron compare his Ellis A5 and Ellis oval. I didn't hear much difference. So, I agree with your assessment of Gibson...
Regarding my post in the thread about Chris Thile's Camp, I would like to apologize to those who thought my info about our Mando & Banjo Week was self-aggrandizement.
I thought that my signature...
Until we hear reports of how Thile’s camp is, I think it will be hard to draw comparisons. He is going for the boutique Thile camp experience. In what seems like a very nice, cool, intimate setting...
With Thile's Camp fees at $2499-$4699, Mando & Banjo Week at the Swannanoa Gathering is a real bargain.
Staff: Mike Marshall, Alan Bibey, John Reischman, Don Stiernberg, Matt Flinner, Radim Zenkl,...
The Mar-A-Lago for mandolinists... brilliant!
Both made in China, no? One company likely pays its craftsman more than the other. You do get what you pay for
Perhaps Ottawa's weird, but no one but a newcomer would be surprised to see highland or uileann pipes at a Celtic jam. Accordions of many types play at jams of differing genres. I've seen didgeridoo...
I understood what you meant from your earlier post. I have a couple more thoughts regarding that. First, a tonal synthesis is a form of simulation. Simulations depend on parameters previously...
So, plucked string instruments have a very short onset transient, and the much longer decay transient. Unlike sustaining instruments like oboes, violins, & etc., most of what make a plucked string...
One short pluck on a banjo and people thousands of miles away cover their ears.
Well, Cal Tech physicist and physics Nobelist David Politzer DOES play the banjo - and the guitar, and possibly the mandolin (he bought one of my mandolins from Gruhn a while back). He won a share of...
This article jumped out at me in the December issue of Physics Today, a magazine I read but seldom understand in any detail. Arthur Compton was one of the greats, and he is not playing a banjo. I’ve...
If I'm playing in the morning, it's gotta be a cup of tea, in the afternoon water, in the evening whiskey, and in the pub ye can't beat a pint of Guinness.