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not strictly speaking a mandolin, but still.....

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Belated Happy birthday to Dan the Mandolin Man.

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Curiosity got the better of me. But I sent it back; not for me. An interesting instrument, but I couldn't justify keeping something I wouldn't play.

I will say the retailer who has this...

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Lots of love for ovals in this house!

This wasn't a pre made set of strings for mandolin. It was a custom set I ordered from Newtone strings in UK. They will make whatever strings you want. So the gauges were 11, 16w, 26w, 40w.

The...

Just to add my two cents worth...

I experimented with using a wound 2nd string on a mandolin, tuned down a tone (FCGD). The set was phos bronze, same gauges as j74s, but the second string was a...

Very interesting discussion. I've found a similar thing with tenor banjos used for Irish Traditional Music. Epiphone and Paramount had a range of tenor banjos with an arch tone ring, but for my money...

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/05/07/a-giant-of-irish-trad-music-the-chieftains-fiddle-player-sean-keane-dies/


https://youtu.be/h_HyKbHbTQw

https://themusicemporium.com/products/kimble-f5-oval-hole

Every year is the year of the mandolin :grin:

https://themandolinstore.com/product/new-kimble-2pt/?doing_wp_cron=1678802833.9840409755706787109375

Sold in less than 24 hours....

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Wonderful to hear of a great luthier returning to making mandolins. The more mandolins in the world, the better!

Although not strictly mandolin related, I've seen numerous posts about Gavin on the cafe, and indeed his highly influential band, De Dannan.

This recently posted interview, presented by ITMA...

Mr. Mercedes, season 3 episode 3, ends with a lovely mandolin/fiddle duet of Brendan with Dylan Foley (fiddle player with the band 'The Yanks, all Ireland senior fiddle winner). Dylan also features...

Hi all,

I read with great interest the recent post about A stye cases. I've recently had to look for f style cases in Europe, so thought I'd share my experience...

Two things brought me to this...

This is worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet Dagger:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnq9A23ikTU

ITMA is an incredible resource, both online and in person. I spent all of Friday there researching a project. If you are in Dublin I'd strongly recommend calling into the building. It's in one of the...

8 mandolins.... :cool:


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The Irish Traditional Music Archive started a series during lockdown called 'Drawing from the Well'. Available on YouTube and their own website:

https://www.itma.ie/drawingfromthewell
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Congrats! I've had my Ellis a4 for almost 3 years now. I'm still as happy with it as the day I bought it. I hope your A4 brings you the same amount of joy.
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Bela Fleck - Tales from the acoustic planet. Still remember hearing it for the first time when I was about 15 and having my mind permanently warped.

Here's an old clip of Mick Moloney, Liz Carrol and Michael Flatley that was recently uploaded to youtube. Nice bit of Mick playing his Gibson at the start, plus a few seconds of him on the old CE...

I'm halfway between Belfast and Dublin - I bring my instruments to Frank Tate. He's based on Capel Street in the centre of Dublin. An easy walk from either the train or bus landing in from Belfast. I...