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Agree totally, there is nothing like playing an instrument, having it in your hand and get the feel of it, to see if you like it.

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Visited with Michael Heiden yesterday in Creston B.C. who had ordered a set of Rubner
tuners for me.
The existing tuners gave me problems, I always spend a long time tuning and re-tuning,I did put...

Sleep at night with a good mandolin book on your head and in the morning you can play all the tunes like Chris Thile:mandosmiley:

I also spend one year in high school in a marching band, my timing has always been accurate since, although I still practice
with a metronome.
Foot tapping: I have seen people in jams foot tapping...

Nothing is as bad as a poorly played fiddle, except perhaps bagpipes.

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I have Wegen picks, Primestone picks, Dunlop picks, and a variety of others, somehow, I always seem to drift back to my Blue Chip pick.

An evening in Inverness, Cape Breton Isl.

Very long and you will want to skip through the commercial contend.
No mandolin , mostly fiddle, guitar, piano, singing and dancing, Some of the best...

Add Sam Bush , Mike Compton, John Reischman, Sharon Gilchrist, and many others with mostly arm tremolo.
I have long puzzled about arm or wrist or a combination, I ended up getting nice tremelo with...

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The best way for me to play a tune faster is to know it well, play it clean and in time with a metronome, (having played it hundreds of times), from there,increase the speed by a few (2 or 3) bpm...

Quote by a well known Nashville musician, "they are playing too darn fast, can't hear the music"

That is the way I practice and watch T.V. , frquently I get more absorbed in playing/practising and miss most of whatever is on the program.

Practicing scales, arpegios , tremelo and/or simple...

Good musicians can make not so good instruments sound good, not so good musicians need good instruments to sound good:)

Great story,Great wife

Who buys the truly expensive mandolins say $8000 and up, mostly professional musicians ?, investors ?

In the classical world, it is not unusual for a professional violinist who plays in an...

You are probably right, I usually have some music books laying around, sometimes the dogs need quick attention and I don't have time to store the pick in the strings as I normally do and I quickly...

Roger, you don't have to buy a Bluechip pick, I have found that Dunlop's Primetone rounded picks sound and feel very similar to Bluechip picks at a fraction of the cost.

Unbelievable!, found my Bluechip TPR45 after missing it for about 3 months.
looked everywhere , all over the house on hands and knees, pulled all the cushions from
the couch and chairs, thinking I...

Thank you for telling me what to do and what not to do, btw, bold print is the equivalent of shouting

Don't you wish people would refrain from cheering, whistling, yelling, whooping hollering
during a live performance untill the last note has died, it doesn't add to the performance, the exception is...

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Hi Bob, I certainly will, however I have to get Mike's permission ,before I put it on this thread.

Mike Compton is one of my favourite Musician/mandolin players, especialy his work with
John Hartford and his outstanding playing with The Nashville Bluegrass Band.

Mike is also a kind and...