Learning to control tremolo and do it by count has helped me take a big leap forward. It cleaned up my playing a whole lot! I'm not sure who to thank. Various people on various threads on the Cafe I...
Learning to control tremolo and do it by count has helped me take a big leap forward. It cleaned up my playing a whole lot! I'm not sure who to thank. Various people on various threads on the Cafe I...
Happy Birthday, David! What an amazing journey you have had, please continue!
I go back to the mid-40's listening to Country music; listening to my Grandmother's Gene Autry and Hank Snow 78's when I was barely out of diapers. I lament the condition of Country music today for...
Seventy three.
Agreed and agreed. Greed!
Why can't some people on this forum let you just "not prefer" Chris Thile's music? You have to love him or hate him. There seems to be some posters who just can't wait for the "Thile Haters" to begin...
Nice job! I love the tone of your mandolin!
Poor grammar or spelling bothers me sometimes......and sometimes not. As posted above, this is a mandolin forum so as long as I can understand what the poster meant I'm okay. It's interesting to me...
Some people are for sure. I know a guy who comes to a jam with a mandolin, tenor banjo, tenor guitar and six string guitar. They are all of "Kentucky 150" variety. Good, solid instruments but nothing...
I'm like Willie and AlanN. I played non-pedal steel for a singer for years back in the late 60's until around 1980. He hated to rehearse.
If he had a new tune no matter if I'd heard it or not, he...
I use them exclusively on my current mandolin. I love the tone, and they last forever.......at least for me they do.
Well, I did four quite a few years ago and I know what "the Navy is like". Just for the record the mandolin player has four hash marks so he has at least sixteen years service so his base pay is at...
"There is always a market for quality". That old saying is my take on it. If I was in my 20's I'd try and buy the best Gil, Dude, Nugget, etc. that I could afford and leave it at that. I'd have a...
I think is a pretty common practice for men or women to use the opposite gender in a song if they take it from someone who did it that way. I have heard dozens of singers at jams, festivals, etc. do...
He was. But how much of an influence is always the question. As far as Berry goes I here a LOT more Tbone Walker than I do Bill Monroe. Berry Loved Jimmie Rodgers and knew all his Blue yodels by...
Nice job, Skip, very enjoyable! That mandolin sounds great!
Love the instrument! I played one for years and only quit because of medical issues. Banjos are fun to play! I never minded practicing the banjo. Have fun!:)
I agree with Allen. These days you can find the media you are looking for. And that goes for music criticism as well as about any other subject. I have no idea where to look as it isn't a subject I'm...
I have a focal dystonia in my right arm and hand which happened in the late 70's. As a result I can't do the up/down flatpicking technique. It also gives me problems with finger picking my lap steel....
Using poor English along with poor spelling in an ad does make a difference to me. Maybe it shouldn't but it does. It's a knee jerk thing. There is an implied laziness or maybe shoddiness that makes...
I use Monels and change them once a year. The new ones sound some better but the old ones still sound pretty good.
Another plastic film canister user here. I've used them since the 70's and have never had a problem.
I agree and I agree. I think the "Loar Era" A's are way overpriced and the teens A's are the bargains and I had a snakehead for a couple years and I don't recall it sounding anything like an F5, in...
Mine cost $1295 used. I'll bet there are $800 mandolins that sound better and $1800 mandolins that don't sound as good and I think you'll find that all the way up and down the price scale. That's one...
"The High Lonesome Sound" is my favorite and I would recommend having it but I wouldn't recommend it as a first album if you aren't familiar with Bill. You would have to get it on vinyl. One of the...