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Tenor Banjo music is now written an octave higher than it sounds, i.e. The low C on the mandola is notated as middle C. That makes tenor banjo music accessible to mandola-ists
Greg Keeing has...

Thanks to each of you. Have seen sheet music for classical mandolin. The only mandolin orchestra in the area was going downhill. I did get a look at the sheet music they played.
Studies...

Why play the mandocello horizontally when it might be better played vertically like a cello?
Put it on a short step stool or something and give it a try.

I took cello lessons for two years. My...

Read that book on Music Theory that you have been pushing aside.
Practice forming chords with your left hand.
If you have a keyboard or piano study left hand chords.
Listen to tunes you know and...

I am predjudiced against a mandolin that looks like a guitar. I expect it to sound like a guitar. They often do.

I have considered getting an octave mandolin, but have been put off by those...

Bought the Collings A with Italian spruce with birdseye maple today. They were very good to deal with.
Had to drive for over 2 1/2 hours each way, but I like the Ramseys at Tejon Street Music...

A traditional tone comes from bowlbacks.

Just ordered this one-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIc40i3c_no

Matt Flinner

http://www.mattflinner.com/

All of them. Won't buy one without the "Florida". Playing for a Mandolin Orchestra sometimes requires those very high notes.

Traded a banjo for a Gibson V15-29-11 violin about 30 minutes ago.
I like it better than the new imports I tried yesterday so far.

Played cello for two years with lessons. Had never touched a...

Thanks
Have a Mya Moe tenor uke that has a harp like sound.