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SAMPLER #1 - NORTH AMERICA

Jesse Appelman
Joshua Ryan
Ellis Page
Mando&Me
EMPeterson
Rick Jones

I contribute my inability to learn new material by ear to a lack of natural music talent. Believe me I have tried to train my ear, but beyond the ability to quickly play rhythm along side someone...

Conversations here too often posit this as an either / or proposition which I find both amusing and saddening in equal measures.

In this case "versus".

I started off learning by ear and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGsCvJWEo8

See attached mandolin tab.

Mick

Here's a good tune to play on it once repaired (or replaced.)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FApWsL8Mq1g

Mick

Actually, Mike, SOLs are somewhat supernatural, and you have to be trained to see them at all. There are untold thousands of them out there, some of them with other names, built over half a...

Just a note to thank all who have been involved for making the pick sampler project successful, from Caleb, who got it all started, to all who have participated, all who have donated, and all who...

From my observations of similar mandolins, I think Gibson had some tops on hand from before the elevated fingerboard days. It looks like they cut top wood away until they could use an elevated 'board...

This probably can be fixed, but not easily. What would it cost? Probably hundreds. Maybe lots of hundreds.

The neck to body geometry on that mandolin has changed significantly. There could be...

Our Pick Sampler #2 is on its way to the UK right now, so this is an excellent time for folks across the pond from the yanks to sign up to receive the sampler.

There is no cost to participate...

I take the mandolin I like playing everywhere. Does it show, yes. I play gigs in hot humid weather and the varnish finish shows it's wear. The finish is worn off the neck along with most of the...

I am an avid promoter of a certain style of Strad-O-Lin mandolins. They have the comma f-holes. The body is slightly smaller than the average A shaped Gibson mandolin and - as far as I know - it was...

When I started working as the engineer for Gibson/Flatiron in 1995, in Belgrade, MT, Gibson had the majority of the domestic mandolin manufacturing and sales market. I believe it was something over...

Yes, I know, this song has been done, redone, used, and abused, and I should have left it alone. However, I decided maybe there was a little room left in the world for a solo mandolin instrumental....

I just happened across this brief youtube video thanks to their autosuggestion function. It's only a couple of years old and includes some interesting information. For one thing, it mentions plans by...

With the number of views, I suspect this hasn’t been posted on the Café forum before, with Mike Marshall playing a Berg 10 string mandocello:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZWwrL-2uS8

BTW I no...

There are several Le Domino Guitars, one Tenor, several ukes and a couple banjolins between eBay & Reverb. In various qualities.

FYI Dominos are not Dice. Though I see the confusion. Is there a...

I think we may have to credit this builder with introducing the roller fairlead to mandolins, plus a few more novel things as well as mutating specifications. Some of us might get strange ideas, but...

Looks like your cover is original by the wear and overall look, If original yes indeed rare, some have been re-plated so "don't polish it as it rub off the soft gold" Gibson F-5's got these gold...

Glad to have it back
https://slowplayers.org/1295-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOptU-3N_Sg

Solo at 1:10

Interesting to see someone investigating the science of bowlbacks https://brill.com/view/journals/ijwc/2/1-3/article-p1_1.xml

I put a 1919 Gibson A4 with a tone-gard and strap in mine and it fit fine.

Sorry but I have no idea.

This is a James Scott Skinner fiddle composition I have adapted to octave mandolin and guitar. The Queen in the title is Victoria, not the recently departed Elizabeth, who passed away very near to...