This is my latest 4th generation flat top mandolin. This is the culmination of 12 years of work improving the sound of the flat top mandolin. It all started from the fact that it is possible to...
This is my latest 4th generation flat top mandolin. This is the culmination of 12 years of work improving the sound of the flat top mandolin. It all started from the fact that it is possible to...
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I wasn't sure where to put this since it's not technically a video of me. It's also both lutherie/builder content and a video. Hopefully this is OK.
Here's some pictures of the...
Calum McIlroy, the winner of BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2024, performs G Iomain na Gamhna for crowds in Glasgow’s
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Demo by The Pickpockets' Dante Giacobassi
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Last week the top brace repair was completed by Tom Crandall and I went back to the city and picked it up at the shop. We raised the action a bit and it sounded and played great. I asked Tom what...
The Smother’s Brothers were an incredible influence my life. The hard part of getting old is seeing the people you love and respect leave this world. They were as good as it could get.
My lost 1922 Gibson F4 mandolin has been found, here is the story…
Last week I received an email correspondence, through my website, from a operations supervisor of a retailers distribution...
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A few videos from a regular session, led by top Scottish singer/guitarist George Duff, where ex Tannahill Weaver/Ossian/Easy Club fiddle maestro John Martin can be heard. And the legendary Cathal...
Happy holidays, everyone. I noticed this very odd mandolin in a vintage photo for sale on ebay. The headstock looks like a Gibson; maybe the body is not original. Any thoughts?
Here's the whole...
That's not fair maxr - the bodhran players always know it.
It’s basically very easy Max. For your benefit atnd that of our American cousins -
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when...
One more observation about Northfield before commenting and a few pics of Elderly Instruments. Of all of the NF mandolins I played I really fell in love with one of the Artist series models. But the...
This will probably be my last Christmas-related recording for the year. Here's a frantic version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, performed on my Weber octave mandolin.
Thanks for listening and...
Some of us only play it half-fast.
Hey All,
My music teacher and I developed an Irish trad tunebook that we're putting out here for all to use. I know there’s already a few out there, but this one’s ours! It contains tabs and...
It's nice to have an instrument that looks good in black & white. :))
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After having my carry-on luggage strip searched a few times a kindly TSA agent pointed out that my harmonicas in their case look just like gun magazines on the x ray. Now I pull them out and keep the...
Was flying today and had one of my mandos with me, an f-style, in a soft case.
After it went through the X-ray machine, the TSA agent operating the X-ray said "Sir, what kind of guitar is this?"
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So in the spirit of something you don't see everyday...:mandosmiley:
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Jim, let's see if the quote sticks this time...
I don't recall how a search for some songs led me to your post of the New York Herald news clip, but that's what I sent to the Library of Congress...
In late September last year, I nearly chopped off the index and middle fingers of my left hand with my table saw. The blade cut cleanly through the tendons, bone and nerves,leaving only some skin and...
No one compares to her. What a fabulous, thrilling, emotionally charged performance. One for the ages. Now she's for the ages. :(
Rest in peace, restless soul.
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RIP Smudge, the best cat I ever knew and champion sampler of catnip mandolins. 4/1/06 - 6/6/23
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A fun gig was had last week, here's a short clip of us playing Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.
You can click through and see the full video, as well (song names and timestamps in the...