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A devil's advocate position, if I may, simply for the sake of promoting an enjoyable discourse:

While I pretty much agree with everything that has been said here, I think that it's healthy to keep...

I could say that it's because it sounds good, but lots of instruments sound good.

Maybe the real reason is because I sound good. :cool: :mandosmiley: :)

Rummaging through some old hard disks recently and came across this mandolin-&-guitar arrangement of Calace's Moto perpetuo, recorded in 2007 in a Shanghai hotel lounge:

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My piano teacher, the late great Olga Von Till, taught me how to phrase music. She wasn't as technical as I'm about to get, but it was basically a few overlapping grids: there was the rhythmic...

A retronym is a term invented for something that already exists, but now needs a clearer name because of a new invention. "Acoustic guitar" is a classic example.

Please excuse my signature :)

Back in the turn-of-the-century snail-mail days, I was on the hunt for a touring music director position. I found about a hundred and fifty mailing addresses of famous singers on the internet, and...

I'd be inclined to go along with Dagger's gauges. :-P

I always found mine to be too light, but Stefan told me not to put medium-gauge strings on these old cedar-top 10-strings, that he didn't know...

I believe (it's what I have written down, anyway) that my 40+ year old cedar top Sobell is strung 10-15-23-35-52.

I saw the last show of that tour, in Osaka, and I remember being hit with the epiphany as I left the concert hall that "That's the reason that I play mandolin, that's the guy that planted the seed."

As you plow that furrow, keep in mind that some pedals invert the phase of the signal.

For example, if you split the signal, run one side into an overdriven amp and the other through a compressor...

Ya, what everyone else said, but...

It doesn't "need" tuning, it's not like "how often should I change my car's motor oil?" :)

When you pick it up in the morning after a cold night, it will...

Lots of Irish Trad tunes are hard to pin down when it comes to saying what key they're in because they don't "commit". A tune in "A" might have as many G sharps as it has G naturals, and/or as many C...

Fender never used nor protected the word "Mandocaster", but that's what everybody called them.

Eastwood started using it, and legally protected their right to do so. I had a converstation with...

I've owned five of the old ones (counting a strange Seafoam Green Korean reissue) – the best one is one of the later ones, a '66 or so (but I did upgrade it a little by installing a '50s anodized...

Had a great sound, beautiful tone, and had the coolest Duke/Count/King-style name.

Ah, spelled the last name wrong, sorry, can't change it now (I gigged a lot with Reggie Workman's nephew,...

"Frotation"? :whistling:

There's your problem right there.

A oft-quoted maxim applies: "The difference between amateurs and professionals: Amateurs wait for inspiration – professionals just get to work."

You wouldn't...

"Frablature"? :)

I own #2 of the three Mike Marshall Signature Series 5-string electrics that John Knutson made – I think it's safe to assume that it was pretty much a custom-from-the-gitgo project.

(On the other...

Not quite a signature model, but when Rigel offered to make me a custom model using one of eight CT110 birds-eye maple bodies that they'd made and set aside, I went with midnight blue with ebony...

BC TAD-3R 60s on my acoustics, BC TAD-3R 35s or 40s on my electrics.

Yes. :)

PM me with your email address, I'll send you lots.

I've attended a few sessions where the more advanced players simply show up later, and the participants seem very okay with the way the evening develops.

Ignorance of a particular session's/jam's/whatever's finer points of conduct is no reason to label it intolerant – any situation that combines music-making with social get-togethering is going to...