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Check out you tube for the playing of R Wesley Carr from Rochelle, IL ! The 2019 National mandolin champion ! Pretty good playing ! :)

Great that an Illinois picker won !

I don't understand what y'all are talking about. A double stop to me is just adding a harmonizing second note. When I find one that I like the sound of I can use that "shape" in any chord by changing...

Doing that exercise daily will re-train your muscle memory. You can do the "ghost notes" but if that is too challening you can play a quarter note as 2 1/8 notes while you are re-training your hand....

Here is a little video I created that has an exercise I believe would help you. I am going to make a separate thread for it, but figured it was relevant here.

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I thought Chris Thile got it from a McArthur genius grant.

This video: https://youtu.be/_ft5J1lX4-o contains an interview with someone that was present at the scrapyard when this happened. He basically says they instruments contained all sorts of electronics...