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First thing I do is have a strap button put on the neck heel. Otherwise I just live without the strap. I cannot abide straps on the headstock. :)

Any chance it might have been "Father's Hall"? :confused: I found a couple of MandolinCafe posts about that tune, with recordings posted by Chuck Naill in 2010, here and here.

I don't know if...

Welcome to the bunch, Jay.

Good decision to go back to basics and reboot. If you restart at the beginning, you get to see progress almost every day. If you don't, you see a lot of frustration. At...

Thanks All!

Very kind words and much appreciated.

The instrument I'm playing is called an octave mandolin at home in the states. GDAE tuning. Here in the UK it's often called a mandola. It...

From pops1 - "...and more repairable in the future...". I understand your remark completely - but - maybe Mr Glickman was looking to prevent the need for any futher ''repair'',certainly of the same...

You're right the best time to learn reading music was 30 years ago. The second best time is now. It's not rocket science. Five lines and four spaces for the name of the notes and half a dozen shapes...

Hi Tom,

I pretty much agree with Bill here. The bracing can be used to influence how a top responds, but in the end it all works together and a top without bracing, or X bracing, or whatever, can...

Google "Kentucky Mandolins" and the info should be on there...I am sure that a new 1500 would have the larger frets, most likely radiused also...

Willie

My guess is the one that sells the most must be the best and the cheapest ones sell the most. Of course that is the best for Amazon, and I doubt they have ever sold a a-hem 'good' mandolin.

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

It looks like both the guitar and the banjo are capo-ed at the third fret, which would be Bb. However it sounds like A so either both are tuned down a semi tone, half step, or the video has been...

The video:

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explain to me how the mandolin player can play the whole song using only the G-shaped chop chord capoed at the third fret

He is "chopping" against muted strings and...

Have a seat in a chair with no arms, put your left leg on a footstool or the closed case, and you won’t have to worry about tensing up your right arm to hold the mando in a comfortable position. The...

Yes, that's normal. Most use their right forearm to hold the instrument level.

I've seen a few people tie to the headstock, but I don't like the way guitars or mandolins sit like that. Plus, tying...

Hello folks.
Mandolessons holds a live session with Q&A on Saturdays at noon.
I'm not in anyway related or anything to Baron' s website I'm just trying to get the word out to other people since I...

a big rounded tip pick? :grin:

mandolincafe.com chord library Under the Learn/Listen tab above

here is a basic 3 finger chord chard I used getting started:
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Hi Tom. There probably is such a page somewhere, and I say that because you can find just about anything on the internet nowadays.

I think the reason you don't find a lot of that is because it's...

These guys CAN and SHOULD.

This is a great example of musicians of high quality having fun!

Nowt wrong with that, I enjoyed it, but then I love Jazz. I suggest none of you sit down and listen to a John Coltrane album then ��

Its its own genre. Just because you might not like to watch/play soccer doesnt mean that Pele or Becker werent incredable at it.

I thought it was awesome....Insanely (good) playing some abstract...

In some respects, you get what you pay for, but there are some gems in the below $100 tuning machines.
The ones that you have now are Gotoh, most likely, though Saga/Kentucky did sometimes use their...

I sold some mandolins for another mandolin. Does that count?

Pride. Shame. Dignity. Hi. My name is Hank. I'm a mandoholic.