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If that's a guitarish-sized mandocello, then those are ~4" floorboards, giving the mandolin a 10-inch scale, or so... maybe? Hey, I've been wrong before!

(Sorry to be repetitious: I've had...

I may be wrong, but didn't he have a follow-up along the lines of: If you hit a really bad note, be sure to play that the next time around to show that it wasn't a mistake but "artistic choice"!

Forgive me if I plagarize myself from another recent thread, responding to the OP's thanks for helpfulness ...

Fortunately for us, there's plenty of guitar-porn still out there!

Indeed they do ... nice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjoByUJbPQ

Of course, I may be a bit prejudiced by six decades of familiarity (even if I couldn't find a video real quick!) ......

Emphatic YES!!

Plus, it took some time to learn what "holding the pick loosely" is supposed to feel like, allowing it to angle down on the upstrokes while still not, ya know, flying across the...

I am SO happy to see that Paul Hostetter's website is again available; when I last looked 5 or 6 months ago, it was not. It's a wonderful resource, and he was a frequent poster here.

IIRC, his...

Y'all are bringing back way too many pleasant memories. While I've described my folk music experience as "'round the campfire", that mostly means "'round the 6-pack".


Only once that made an...

Suspectin' that Gene 'n' the boys jus' tuned to that there piano out on the back porch!

... as is Hank Williams. Most folks will have some familiarity with 5 - 10 songs under both suggestions. (Or is that 77 y/o thinking?)

Since that's a recurring theme in this thread, per "Turkey in the Straw", I have to comment (just off the top of my head, without further reseserch):

Many of our popular folk and "childrens" songs...

Been there: Senior Citizens' club Christmas luncheon, maybe 5 years ago. Requested song was "Edelweiss", and that gig is now one of MY warmest memories!

Thanks for that. Personally, I'll probably still carry (meaning that I haven't yet) the full 6-page details with the specific parts highlighted. The full text is "Federal Register/Vol. 80, No....

Looks as nice as I had hoped it would. And sounds good, on thus-far limited experimentation into a Roland Micro-Cube.

But, two minor disappointments:

- After the comments about excellent...

Lots of possible factors involved; strings, technique, pick, room reflectivity, etc. But, F-holes generally tend to project outward, toward the audience, more than oval holes do. I'm blown away any...

I'm far from expert but, as best I recall from 25-30 years ago browsing Rudy's and the other shops on NYC's 48th St., "Alvarez" and "Alvarez-Yairi"-branded instruments, all from Japan, have run the...

1- Having started on guitar 6+ decades ago, even today's cheapest instruments are at least decently built. It's as if the bottom 30% of 1970's market just vaporized.

2- "Set-up" is continually...

Jeff - Very well said!

And your whole story is real familiar, even if I'm only 20+ miles from NYC, where you still won't find extensive inventories of mandolins... especially after Stan Jay...

IIRC, an early issue of Fretboard Journal had an (as usual, excellent) article on Holzapfel's 12-strings.

Uhmm... It sortta has me thinking that maybe the mandolin-guitar was moistened at the Bay of Fundy. when the 30-foot high tide arrived at 8:05...?

You don't note the geographic location, but I'm picturing the northeast / New England in mid-to-late October. Even the best of Fall days mean a bit of breeze, with rustling trees & shrubs, and...

FWIW, I was a marginal singer for decades, sometimes almost on key. Then when it got to reading notation on mandolin, I'd play the notes while SINGING the names of them, easily referenced against...

It would be hard to go wrong with this one, for only $10-12 or so:
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/content/554-New-in-Print-JAM-Songbook-by-Pete-Wernick-and-Liam-Purcell

... and to be aware of...

As a fan of Neil Young's acoustic side, I can only say that that recent (Aug. '23) performance was REALLY nice! Can't fathom that the song is now 30+ years old! Would be extra nice if Neil actually...

On mandolin, I find that "at the nut" interferes with the fretting hand. (Guitar has both more room and somewhat different hand positions.) Around the headstock & thru the tuners works for me.
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