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Baby boomers were hitting the 45-55 year old range, peak earnings for many, their kids were grown etc so they had more disposable cash.
I wonder if Harley Davidson sales went up then too?

In 1998...

A good question, 'how do you learn a new tune'?

Posed from a beginner to more advanced players. It gives some insight into different methods, common methods and odd methods based on the...

Thete is a lot of advice here that stresses development and use of tools. And that's great. But I would say that spending time actually making up (in your head) melodic breaks and then finding and...

You mention fiddle tunes? Are you talking about fiddle tunes only or vocal tunes?

If you break down tunes into a series of phrases, some say to think of those phrases as questions and answers,...

check out the cafe's mando inspired haiku thread:

http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?77-Mando-inspired-Haiku&highlight=haiku

Simple.

(I'm assuming the jam was closer to Bluegrass than to jazz.)

This music was developed for small groups and is not designed for a large band. So any attempt at being heard over all those...

I know a luthier in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Plain strings from many labels are identical to one another.
Their wire is all made by the same manufacturer.
Mapes "specialty wire" is used by these well known brands.

That is a Celtic Mandolin, Mike, whether or not it has points and a scroll! it's the way you play it and you certainly play Celtic (whatever that label might encompass) here.

The alternative option was to confuse the larger group here with "braces"...

It is amazing how people, (like me...) can play for years an not know a thing about why tunes work, or don't work. Now I know a few things, and find it not only interesting, but much easier to put...

The Dean of Cape Breton Fiddle Music, Hugh Allen "Buddy" MacMaster died last night, about 9:30 local time, at home in rural Western Cape Breton. He is credited with the return of Celtic Fiddle Music...

Just head on over to the MP3 section of the Café find what you like.
That is how I discovered The Ragtime Skeedaddlers.

Old Hag in the Kiln & Kid on the Mountain...

For the last few years I've used those picks made out of what we don't discuss here. I've also purchased just about everything that's come along in the high end pick market. They are all great picks...

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Here's a few shots of Elkhorn F-5 #40 ready for finishing. Really excited about the woods on this particular mandolin. The combination of Big leaf Maple and Red Spruce on...

Doesnt matter at all.

Play what you think sounds good.

Many who are particular about these things would have trouble telling the difference in a blind taste test of recorded music.
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I took to the road towards the end of March this year - just about settled in at this stage.

This comes close to summing up my opinion of the situation.
I don't like the look of the long (29/30 fret) extended fingerboard on an F5 or otherwise. To me, it throws off the visual balance, and to...

Well, they do make dandy bolo ties.

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For all you linux geeks out there, here's my occasional cafe stats dump.

The cafe is very busy from an IT perspective. We run with a lot of tuning and tweaks I've picked up over the years. Just...

What's in a mason jar makes the jam, not those around it.

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I've currently got EXP74's on both mine. It's only the G & D strings which are coated,the A & E strings are very likely the standard J74 strings. Where my hand rests on them, the G & D's are still...

Oddly, the description you give matches almost exactly with one of the 9 circles of Hell from Dante's Inferno.

Congrats on your wife's improving condition. I'm sure folks here understand and hope you're back in business soon. :)