Many thanks to everyone for the detailed suggestions, kind words, and for providing some good concrete starting points! Fortunately for everyone else, less so for my ability to lead tunes, I am in no...
Many thanks to everyone for the detailed suggestions, kind words, and for providing some good concrete starting points! Fortunately for everyone else, less so for my ability to lead tunes, I am in no...
I just acquired a beautiful MUTH mandolin; #M123 made in 2020. To my ears it has that nice Lloyd Loar "throaty" sound that I love so much and was searching for. Given that there are so few of these...
An internet acquaintance recently requested that I record this tune. It was one that I'd never heard before. I usually prefer to learn tunes by ear as I believe the aural learning process helps with...
learn your dots or you never play complex music (release the penguins) https://lostinthecloud.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/faeries-aire.gif
more from John Stump here:...
I really don't need to get into discussing this further and I'm already on record stating the decision is not going to be an invitation for a public forum on opinions. The banjo community has been...
Georg Philipp Telemann: Partita No. 5 (TWV 41:e1), Aria 4: Siciliana
First published in "Kleine Kammermusik" (1716).
I originally found this nice tune in a collection of Baroque recorder duets...
It came from Montana Lutherie with JP 48-14, which is pretty close to the EJ72s everyone recommends around here. I just bought a pieced-together set of slightly heavier Elixirs (.052 G strings) that...
Since I haven’t seen fatt-dad around much lately, allow me to assume his role and offer his customary advice about string selection. While these mandolins have anecdotally stood up to mediums, they...
I guess two can be a collection but I also consider it a reunion of two mandolins that could have been in the STE shop at the same time. I really enjoy playing this pancake and koa is one of my...
Since we revived this “vintage” thread I might as well post my most recent acquisition, a Flatiron 2K from ‘83. Here are pics with my ‘83 A5-2 which I bought new in that year from Mandolin Brothers....
What on earth are you talking about? I guess I'm just too stupid to understand that "mandolin" uses completely different scales and notes, and a completely different way of constructing "chords"...
Thank you for the links! I was impressed by Fatt Dad's imagery of the pancake mandolin sound . . . "a piercing echo across a foggy lake". I might take a look at the Gold Tone GM-10. Thanks again!
The Pancake bug bit hard and I impulsively bought an '82 N1 that should be here hopefully this week or next (I know the shipping world has been crazy with the Holidays and whatnot). No case. I'll be...
Jim, there are perhaps other TI strings that might work - but I have had no luck trying to get TI to respond to my inquiries. A double set of TI AC112 guitar strings totals to $52 which is about the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG5vsbGultk
This was a whole bunch of work to make, but super fun, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!!
Thank you sir! I am enjoying them. You have some fine mandolins too!
A lot of you folks are making things much more complicated than it should be. QUIT (or cut back on) relying on some sort of Visual "memorization", whether it's Tab, notation, or looking at your...
Since you are coming from a violin I would recommend a 20" scale OM with Thomastik-Infeld 174M strings. That is how I have my F20 Bitterroot setup and it is very warm sounding and rings like a bell...
As fatt-dad said to me in this thread:https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/152001-Troublesome-Creek
"Go for it!"
I'm glad I did, thanks f-d!
I'll add Red Valley to the...
Oh wow. Those HM series look a lot like the Waterloo by Collings flat tops. Beautiful!
A couple of weeks ago Andy Statman made the move and purchased a Lloyd Loar F5 from Larry Wexer (wexerguitars.com) in New York City. His father purchased a Loar for him when he was a teenager, but...
I am in the ICP camp but have done several refrets. My thought is that the mandolin is small and the scale is short, so small frets
are in order. Here is a cut from guitarplayer.
Bigger frets...
Hi. If you'll forgive me for prying ever so gently, I see you've been a member for 18 years, yet this is your first post. That seems to indicate you're much more willing to go along with what others...
According to Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars, Gibson "acquired the Flatiron mandolin company in May, 1987."
This should fit into the discussion. How to think about this? Key change/ modes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fegnW9nisw