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Not very selective about picks for traditional eight string acoustic, variety of thick picks. Not playing these much these days.
For five string electrics, no pick at all. Bare thumb with well...

Have a Sparrow Solid Body 5-string Walnut Electric Mandolin purchased this past October. (This seller is open to offers.) Has become my go to electric five string. Very well made, superior fit and...

Double Stops – Playing two notes at once on adjacent strings is a hallmark of Chuck Berry and Johnny B. Goode makes heavy use of the technique.

Guessing from the date that it has 6 strings.
Traditionally tuned dD aa dd. 6 String Greek Bouzouki Tuning
(D = D below Middle C
d = D above Middle C
a = A below Middle C)
Strings...

If you have a ball end string and need a loop end, you can simply remove the brass ball from the loop at the end of the string.
The safest way to remove the brass ball is to "bite" it with a pair of...

Podcast: The Kalamazoo Gals of the Old Gibson Guitar Factory
The story of the women who stepped up to produce thousands of guitars during World War II.

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Sing!

No matter what instrument is being played, string or wind, I'm singing the melody in my head.

Emando has builder info.

As mentioned above, Aquila Soprano Uke Mandolin Tuning and Aquila Concert Uke Mandola Tuning.

The 369th Infantry Regiment was not utilized in combat by the US Army.
However, they were welcomed into the French army and wore those uniforms in battle.
The first photo may have been at their...

James Reese Europe 369th Harlem Hell Fighters Band CD
Compositions

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In WWI the band marched through no man's land under enemy fire playing "Memphis Blues".

Exactly!!!

My mentor who introduced me to Old Time music in the 1960's could play many instruments. When playing fiddle, and not soloing, he tucked the bow under his left arm and chopped mandolin style rhythm...

The ten string extended-range classical guitar, with fully chromatic, sympathetic string resonance was conceived in 1963 by Narciso Yepes, and constructed by José Ramírez III. The normal tuning of...

I have always had a propensity for losing small parts that are not securely attached. After trying add on devices of all sorts for dampening the string from bridge to tailpiece, another simpler...

The Monkees & Jimi Hendrix

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And mazurka...

Abundance of educational material at Maqam World.

"Sweetened" tunings on a fretted string instrument probably aren't the best approach.
They are effective for a single key when playing in first position.
Equal temperament - 12th root of 2 - was...

From a slightly different perspective, "legitimate" classical instrument is an interesting inquiry.
Almost all of the instruments being played today for "Classical" and "classical" music may not be...

Yes. There is something far better than tablature. It is standard notation. Difficulty level is extremely low, no Ph. D. required. Understood it when learning to read and write at six years old. Can...

Have a 1995 2.5 with koa purchased new from Gryphon. Octaves on the G & D. It still sings!
Use round wound; prefer phosphor bronze over brass (bright bronze).
Never tried flat wound on it; like...

Bat wood?

The Great Highland Bagpipe sounds in Bb at the current standard of A above Middle C = 440 Hertz.
Historically they sounded in A in Chorton Pitch where A = 466 Hz, a half step higher than 440....

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Here is the classic tailpiece designed by Gibson, which is now the most commonly seen style of tailpiece. There is a cover which slides over the top to protect you forearm, and there are...