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Thanks, Greg. I always like getting more musical and cultural education, and I enjoyed the music, especially all those cousins-of-mandolins played by masterful musicians. I grew up partly in...

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Jamie

Thanks for sharing it Ron. That was recorded with my new custom built David Sefl 2 point mandolin. Jesper and the gang recorded in Denmark and I did my part in Sweden. More coming from us! BUT......

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There is no "right way" to learn improv. While the goal is to be able to flow without thinking (subconcious), no player can ever do this without a whole lot of concious improv work in the practice...

There have been a lot of products trying to make an acoustic pickup sound more like an acoustic, but the ToneDexter is in a whole new league, able to take the signal from an undersaddle transducer,...

Greg_tsam, I am sorry about the injury. And I hate to be the one to have to point this out but Forum guidelines prohibit commerce anywhere but the Classifieds. One of the moderators will surely...

I've tried that, Drew. It looks weird once you see it in the flesh. The sides of the button end up sloping up and it ends up looking kind of un-anchored.

After all, he was one of us.

Thanks for all the kind words. Unfortunately the arthritis is in the index and middle fingers of the left hand. I can't even press down Uke strings. I will likely hang around the forum.

I am...

I also have arthritis and have to make two note chords now days but I still play with the band and I have learned to do two note chops that are not as good as four note chops but they do the job...

I'm most impressed to hear that the new Cafe cap also makes tea and tells jokes.

A rigid brimmed cowboy topper is better than a snake rattle and a tone guard and an armrest put together at improving the tone of a mandolin - by deflecting sound into the player's ears.

Dear drbhrb,

Please be more specific about which chord sounds you don't like. I don't mean to defend my bad sounding chords, and I would like to help. A quick review of the samples above...

Or a highly predictable train wreck in slow motion.

:popcorn:

JKA,

I take it as a reference to sitting back and watching a movie, or in this case, the drama of a reality TV show.

Well, now I feel like a real dope. I just found out the problem was my headphones. I listened to something else of which I know is excellent quality and it sounded bad as well. I used another set...

Hello Montana,

I noticed your reiterated here the comments that you sent me directly and so I think it's best that I post here as well. Re: the chord melody book, the instructional chapters do...

The monthly bluegrass jam in Pearl, Texas is one of my favorite places to be. I just visited the website and was surprise to find it under construction - although there was a link to the new...

No, you see it all the time in old fiddles...
I remember an Amati with an especially nice one-piece top that was loaded in bearclaw...



Yeah, that all happened when Dana Bourgeois started...

Hey, Tim. Them's fightin' words! My parents bought a brand new '59 Edsel and it was a fine car. Robin's egg blue and white. Not that I'm bragging or anything. :)

Bear claw was considered a fault, traditionally. Lots of spruce was rejected because of bear claw, C.F. Martin would not use it, it was considered "junk". Then, somehow, it became something to...

Cafe denizens!

Someone posted the full public television special/in-studio show from 1975 in Kentucky that features JD Crowe & The New South. Lots of mando content featuring Ricky's newly acquired...

FFcp=four fingers in closed position(s)

Being able to use the whole neck and fearless of any key has had the biggest effect on my playing.