https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rrviOb-hg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rrviOb-hg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOfxk0NvpVU
Context is everything. Beginner jam? Anything goes. Whatever gets people playing. Jam at my house? I really can't stand the Grateful Dead (sorry!), and I'm tired of hearing Wagon Wheel. Traditional...
If you start banning songs because they reflect the sometimes less than pristine history of our country, then you'd better only play new songs and tunes. But eventually someone will even find them...
Well I vote a resounding no on banning songs/tunes/instruments/hats… Who decides and where does it stop? Plenty of tunes I don’t care for but when they are called I support the person calling them...
Wagon Wheel, the song all the cool kids hate and the audiences always love. Banning songs? We hold genre specific jams (old time, bluegrass, etc.) and even though folks show up for those jams we used...
If you're in a jam with organized rules about tunes, you've got to follow them. Some people will be put off, some will love it, people come and go. Doesn't mean that over time the 'rules' won't...
I find it somewhat disheartening to see Bill Monroe bandied about by many who did not know him. You never even knew the man and you are afraid of him? That’s ridiculous. The man has been dead...
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Came across this on mastodon and thought you might all enjoy. These are both 5 string electric mandolins, as are common in Indian music and made famous by U. Srinivas.
this was a fun video to watch, neat to see images of the IBMA and the pro level players suggestions for these tunes, enjoyed this highly-and its perked a few tunes in my memory that i want to learn...
Tommy seems to be on a mandolinist collaboration thing lately. This is nothing but beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEbEBId9CQ
Dave: Thx for the mention.
I definitely want to point out that the origins of my method came from seeing one of your earlier mandolins that had a removable back. Yours had ultralight nylon ...
Back plate stiffness vs top plate stiffness has an impact on the bass/treble balance of an instrument. I don''t like the word "tune", because that can be taken as implying that the parts of an...
http://https://youtu.be/t9QPfZqFZyU?si=TEKFgB0Rn259IsZz
It would be a shame, IMO, if the mandolin doesn't get the attention it needs because it costs more than its worth. Of course I understand, there is no way to monetize feelings about a great old...
I have been following Tuba Skinny (New Orleans trad jazz) through YouTube vids for years ; today I learned that Robin Rapuzzi, their washboard player, plays mandolin. His trio, Rapuzzi Glo Worms,...
Roger Sprung has passed away. He was a fixture in the Folk to Bluegrass world. He once told me that he got the only guitar player he could find to play on one of his albums. That player was Doc...
This was posted from the Chapman shop in the Vintage Instruments section of the forum. Since many members may not visit that section, I really think it deserves to be posted here as well. The video...
Hey everyone, I've been working on this mandolin design survey, mostly for fun but hopefully the data will be useful to myself and others. The idea is to gather information on what different types of...
All the things mentioned above are good ideas, but not all work for everybody. The Voltaren cream had no effect for me, but I've heard that it works for other people. I take Meloxicam every day for...
Against logic, I've found those Gibson bridges actually sound pretty good. The adjustable ceramic saddle, not the plastic bridge. The idea was simple -- to allow the player to adjust the saddle...
I have thought about this question a lot over the past year as I have tried to figure out how to make a professional-grade carbon fiber mandolin.
The real truth/growth serum for a builder is...
Answers that you're not looking for:
1: Probably not, because we all go "Wow!" over different things.
2: Experience. That is, what makes =you= go "Wow!"?
Today I'm celebrating my old side-kick "Crusher" on its 100th birthday. We're both getting up (and hangin' in) there. I made up a new tune for us to play together, "Crusher's Cruise". I'm also...
Miss having this guy in our musical world, a feeling I'm sure is shared by many.