Search:

https://www.facebook.com/noel.eccles/videos/1252016694836207/

A live clip of Moving Hearts playing 'The Lark'. Completely and utterly brilliant!

Warning: side effects may include dizziness, headache, blurred vision, and nausea. Ask your musicologist if E Mixolydian™ is right for you.

I bought a cedar over rosewood Sobell mando for $850 about 1981. I'll never sell it - sounds like one of those bell-ringing chiors. It's really unbelivable, not to mention beautiful. I think...

You'll need to sand it, OK there may be chemicals you can apply which may remove the old finish, but I can tell you now that it's not simply soluble in anything simple.

You'll need really good...

Usually the thick strings are on the bass side of the course.

Ok, that looks like a pretty standard bağlama, and that will NOT tune to DAD. Strings will break before reaching pitch.

Most common...

i'm waiting for st patrick to drive the electric guitar our of island.

GDA is one of many baglama saz tunings; others are EDA, GCA, F#DA, etc.

Add to that, the notes are for tuning but the actual pitches may be higher or lower. SO what is written in a book as "tuned...

Looking at your string sets on the onstrument like this -

12 - 34 - 567

You've got string 123 going to the side tuning pegs, with 1 going to the tuning peg closest the nut and 3 the peg...

Hi Colin - Remove the Ebony nut & use it as a pattern to make a new bone one. As Adrian says above,you could repair it,but it makes for an un-easy frame of mind.You'll always be waiting for it to pop...

Place a block of wood against the face of the nut on the fingerboard side and give it a light tap or two with a (preferably small) hammer and it should pop off easily. Some people would probably...

with my good luck wishes to my neighbour.
for their financial crisis.

https://soundcloud.com/orkun-hicyilmaz/zorba-the-greek-sirtaki

The double-hole one shown is at the Fado Museum in Lisbon. I mentioned it to the owner at Porto Guitarra ("Tico" Rodrigues), and he said he's not aware of any modern maker producing those. Though not...

Same as the Irish wimmin do.

Hi Colin,

I intend to post a sound clip this wek. I have been rather remiss not to have done so. Thanks for reminding me.

Brings to mind another quote, "My biggest fear is that after I die, my wife will sell my mandolins (or guitars...or microphones) for what I said I paid for them." Yikes!

Doug

Listen to the Breton guitarist Gilles Le Bigot play the tambura - particularly a track called La Funambule from his CD Empreintes.

Here's a recording of myself playing my Rigel G-110 mandolin.

https://soundcloud.com/alfranreid/jigs-cheer-up-old-hag-the-connaughtmans-ramble

Anyone else out there play Irish/Scottish on a...

A Blue Moon? Maybe it saw you standing alone, without a dream in your heart, without a 'zouk of your own... It knew just what you were there for, and heard you saying a prayer for a 'zouk you...

Easy question. If someone offered you $700 cash money for the mandolin right now would you sell it? If not, then you did not pay too much. If so, then you did.

I stripped off the chipped and gouged lacquer from my Eastman 515 and refinished it with Danish Oil. Here are the before and after pics. Sounds great and I like the looks of the thin finish, more...

Agreed!

When you can play like that, you don't need to sing.

Unfortunately, that interface was discontinued quite some time back. The most 'recent' windows drivers are for XP:

http://www.mackie.com/products/satellite/update.html

On a Mac it should work...

This link work? http://www.mackie.com/products/digital_recording/index.html
That model has ben discontinued so you may not have much luck getting what you need.

Here it is! Built by John Bailey, London in 1963.Johnny kindly allowed me to take photos as we prepared it for the Sweeneys Men reunion concert in Galway last year.
Kieran
...