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My company, El Dorado Guitar Accessories, makes several varieties of mandolin straps, all with a thin "snake biting its tail" front loop that works on almost all F-style scrolls & for headstocks or...

We do custom sizes and our front loop is thin enough to easily accommodate F-style scrolls or under raised pickguards on A-styles. Works great on my Collings MF, MT, MTO's, and Mandola.

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Umm, a bit of shameless promotion for my company: El Dorado Guitar Accessories. Here's our "Kachina" model mandolin strap

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My experience has been that the ambient temperature is more of a determining factor than humidity. If the temperature drops my strings go sharp, and when the temperature rises the strings go flat. ...

Congrats. I have a Collings MT and an MTO. Love them both. They're different tonally, but both fun to play.

I have a 1950 Martin A mandolin that I purchased back in 1979. It's a peach, but you might want to do yourself (but not your wallet) a favor and check out a Collings MT mandolin. They are louder,...

This discussion interests me as an amateur mandolinist who plays mostly Bach, and mostly from Daniel Sellman's two transcription books of Bach for mandolin. Although I think all the responders to...

My experience exactly. I purchased a used 2012 MT with the Stew-Mac Golden Age tuners that were an absolute bear to use. I phoned Collings and got told to phone Stew-Mac directly and tell them...

Nicely done, Phil! I've been working on several of the Bach cello pieces and sonatas for the past four or five years. Not the easiest stuff to pull off, but you do it with ease. I'm very impressed.

I'd definitely be interested. Bach is just about all I'm playing on the mandolin

John 5 can play anything!

A man goes into a pawn shop in San Francisco and, for the purpose of this joke, buys a dead rat. He walks out of the shop holding the rat by the tail.

After walking a block or two he gets a...

Sounds like what I've developed, which is probably tendonitis. First it was the inside forearm, now it's gotten worse on the outside. I'm taking 3 Advil 2-3 times a day and trying to lay off the...

Banjo Ben has a lot of great mandolin lessons and tunes.

OK, RBMB, ya got me. Happy April Fools Day

another example of my theoretical “inverse law of sunglasses retention”: the more a a pair of sunglasses cost the quicker they will be lost. With a cheap pair of sunglasses, they refuse to get lost....

I have both of Daniel Sellman's Bach for Mandolin books. Lots of enjoyment for a small investment in money and a lot of investment in practicing. Well worth it!

Seamus:

Bach is pretty much all I'm playing these days. Cello Suite #1 Prelude done, and then several menuets, as well as Violin Partita #1 in E Maj., the Bourre I & II from the 3rd Cello Suites....

A banjo player, on his way to a gig, stopped at a local Walmart, forgetting that his banjo was in the back seat.

When he returned to his car, to his horror he found his car had been broken into:...

My favorite mandolin pick is the Dunlop Ultex James Hetfield model. I think the thickness is 1.14mm. I use the pouted end & am playing mostly classical on my mando s.

I received a Blue Chip as a...

Jaycat- when you practice the Bach Sonatas or Partitas enough so that it's at a "performance" level, it almost always becomes memorized, even though they're 4+ minutes long. Not to take anything...

Wow, just wow! That's a killer!

Just throwing in my 2 cents to the discussion. I've talked to several reps from Eastman, and they mentioned their yearly output of hand-carved mandolins can be counted in the hundreds, not...

David: Thanks! I found it in the first thread you shared. I followed the score while listening to a YouTube audio of John Williams playing it. I also learned online that Segovia transcribed it...

That's what I love about Bach: you can play it on any instrument, from a tin whistle to a tuba and it all sounds great!

A quote attributed to Douglas Adams:

Beethoven tells you what it's like...