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No problem, I realise that.

gah! honey, I shrunk Mike Marshall! that's a beastly machine with amazing tone. pete, thanks for posting it!

Excellent video. I have watched it 2 times. I have seen video of Sarah solo on line, but this is actually a really good hard/soft rock concert. And the band is really good.
Mike

Or check out this profile of Sarah for the Cafe!

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/content/172-Looking-Forward-with-Sarah-Jarosz

Sarah's pursuing her musical vision, and I love watching her...

Great response from Hobgoblin. Got back to me the same morning to say they’d replace the part for nothing as it shouldn’t have broken. Thanks guys for all the advice. Good point about taping down the...

Ian is on staff this summer for Choro Camp New England.

Merry Christmas friends!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v81LKkUOYj4

What a lovely video and idea. The dancers are such fun!

Those wooden dancers very much remind me of the song "Whiskey on a Sunday" - I have never seen anything like them before.

Absolutely charming!

You’ll find the Collings ones pictured (if you blow it up) in the gallery here - https://www.collingsguitars.com/mandolins/mt-mandola/#gallery&gid=1&pid=10 - so they’re clearly still making them.
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If they were made in 1999 then chances are they are Gotoh tuners and the post should be square. If that's the case you can replace the buttons with the Waverly buttons sold by Stewmac. I have one set...

I had some Waverly buttons that buzzed/rattled. It was a quick and permanent fix. You'll have to cut the tape down to the right width. Don't put so much tape on that you have to really force the...

Gotoh do make tuners with shorter shafts on the middle pair. I’ve never investigated their model number or even whether they’re available but my Collings mandola came with a set fitted from new.

On second look, the shafts, especially the Ds and As seem short. Maybe the shafts have been modified? Here's a photo of a nickel set of MF40R tuners.

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Here's the issue. They appear to be Gotoh's but Saga, the importer of Kentucky mandolins brought in some fake Gotoh tuners that appear to be the same. They even use the same screw sizes. What is...

I've wrapped Teflon Tape around the post the button sits on to friction fit buttons that fell off those cheap Stew Mac A style tuners. I've also used it to fix rattles with buttons that screw on....

One of our fiddlers makes limberjacks and when he's got an audience, he'll put down the fiddle and make the man dance. it's great to have it as part of our gigs. the one he normally uses for our...

I'm with TheMandoKit. Always thought the were super cool as a kid.

Adam

Nice!

I always thought those things were great when I was a kid.

Fergal is a great fiddler, but this mandolin video he did is just fantastic. It needs to be shared, so here it is:
https://youtu.be/ZPDpZUkR0CA

David

Since Brazilian bandolim virtuoso Ian Coury was recently featured on Mandolin Monday, folks might be interested in this YouTube video of a Pixinguinha classic shot a week ago on the beach in...

Here is a You tube link to a Monroe influenced tune in F for mandolin I recorded with my New Mexico Group around 2008. It's one I wrote call "Nates Rambles". I had forgotten all about this tune.
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I have #63 in the shop now. It's a Grand Artist.

I attended a workshop sponsered by Mr. White, in the art of building mandolins several years ago.. Very nice guy, and made me want to be all that I can be.. It was at a folk fair in down town ...