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We caught the edge of the storm -- lots of wind last night and some frightening gusts but not a lot of rain. The sky was amazing at around 10:30 when I took the dogs out but no rain at that time. We...

Well, most of the NYC bridges and tunnels are closed (they just re-opened the Tappan Zee Bridge at 9 a.m. today); the commuter trains, subways and buses are suspended today while the MTA assesses...

Fall will soon be here
You set the clocks back an hour...
And play mando more!

Rapid arpeggios
Slow down to melodic chords
Like Summer to Fall

It's dusk. I'm playing.
It's the waning autumn hours.
And, my mandolin.

f-d

Bug spray on my arm ...
Summer's heat made me careless.
Will my finish hold?

Well I was just practicing the scales from Baldassaris' dvd and I dropped the pick because I was holding it too loosely. Two things came to mind, young Chris Thile dvd saying to "hold it so loosely...

cool breezes playing
the waning days of summer
hot mando pickin'

summertime is here
old sausage smokes on the grill
and on mandolin

:)

Sweet tones from F-4
Compete with distant thunder,
Dry spell at an end


Doug in Vermont

Summer oozing past,
A quiet ritardando
The last few measures.

excellent

There has not been a name change. Sound to Earth was started by Bruce and Mary Weber and they continue to be the sole owners and managers of STE. As with any small company we have had employees...

A friend of mine is sponsored by Weber and has one of the "The Weber" mandolins. My understanding is that the "The" designates it as a higher end model. Webers are all fine mandolins, but personally...

Isn't "The Weber" reserved for the higher end models? There is no import branded Weber (for mandolins). Sound To Earth (Weber) was formed when the Flatiron company was bought out by Gibson and...

In the early years that Gibson was manufacturing mandolins their mandolins were marked "The Gibson". This was probably an offshoot of some ad person's idea as to how to identify the product as being...

Well...you could follow in.the tradition of Bill Monroe who put tape over the Gibson name when he got mad at them .....put tape over the cover and change it to read Mannedolin for Anne

The whole top vibrates, no matter which string is being played. In my experience, tops of two different woods have a sound that is somewhere between either wood by itself. That can be good or bad.

It's been done; engalmann and sitka, I believe, and probably other combinations. It does not change the sound of any specific strings relative to the others.

To dance with my fingers and speak without opening my mouth.

I play so that by the time I'm an old man I can amuse myself.

Sure:
I like the circular nature of the tunes; how they go round and round in a continuous curve that never ends.

I like the symmetry of the tunes – AABB. It’s all patterns and pattern...