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    Re: Robin Williamson mandolin

    I taught myself mandolin using Jack Tottle's Bluegrass Mandolin Book along with my Robin Williamson's EWSI Fiddle Tune book, with the black record, which I still have. As a fifer, I pretty much knew...
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    Re: ABCnotation.com Harmony and V:2

    Hi Simon, there must have been a bunch of problems at the abcnotation.com site over the past week, but it seems to be fine now. I went to the site, typed V:2 into the tune search box, and in less...
  3. Poll: Re: Just starting out -- Should I really learn to "read music"?

    R0gue, let me sneak in another, different nifty idea in favor of being able to read music. If you have more than one person playing a similar instrument, that introduces the idea of second parts and...
  4. Re: Zoom lessons, and no sound? "Original sound for musicians"

    Two more things we have found useful on Zoom jams after you have ensured "original sound" is indeed ON.

    The first helps cure someone who starts playing and volume is good, but eventually gets...
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    Re: Jack Tottle's book

    Bought it in college in 1978 or so, taught myself mandolin with it. At one point, after much painful brute force practice, I could play a passable, but sedate, version of the cross-picking Home Sweet...
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    Re: Original Bluegrass/Oldtime Tunes in "Bb"

    Wally Traugott was one Canada’s highest paid fiddlers in the 1950’s and 1960’s, but he became disenchanted with the Canadian music scene and record companies. He moved to the US and became a...
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    Re: Eyeglasses for Reading Sheet Music

    I was born with really sharp vision, something like 20/12. However, after the eye strain of engineering school and only a few years after flight training, my eyesight decided to go the way of...
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    Re: Elizabethan Serenade (Ronald Binge)

    Hi Martin,
    I think you did a very nice job tweaking your arrangement, it flows better and is very evocative of the original. I've loved this song ever since hearing it on the radio as a child in...
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    Re: English fiddling essay (no mando)

    As someone who started fiddling because they wanted to sound just like David Swarbrick (I wish) and who can barely utter the words "last time through" while playing without the whole shebang coming...
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    Re: Golden Gate Guitar Picks

    As someone who has used both Dawg and Golden Gate mandolin picks for years, I was curious to see what these were like, and yes, that link was severely busted.
    Try this one:
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    Re: Help! Drowned out by fiddles!

    I played mandolin at beginner Irish sessions till my fiddle playing got semi-decent. Then I was gifted with a beat up old tenor banjo, which I had brought up to snuff in GDAE tuning. I enjoy playing...
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    Re: What artist/album got you started with Trad

    Jim, I read that there is a session in Australia where the Robin Williamson's version of Rights of Man is the version that session plays--I want to play at that session; it takes everything in me to...
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    Re: What artist/album got you started with Trad

    I took violin lessons in first grade, but we moved every year and that was as far as my lessons and violin abilities went. In eighth grade, my brother played me his Fairport Convention albums. When I...
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    Re: Mandolin world vs fiddle world

    In response to Doug's very first point, a hearty agreement. The Mandolin Cafe is pretty unique. I will spend way too much time on the Mandolin Cafe when stopping by, but I generally go to a fiddle...
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    Re: Hidden D'Addario Micro Tuners....

    My friends all had D'Addario violin micro tuners for their fiddles, so I bought one and tried it on my fiddle. I disliked it intensely, it just seemed to always be in the way while I played or just...
  16. Re: New guy looking for advice on travel with mandolin

    It sounds like I was probably flying bigger metal than what you're on, but I carried a mandolin as a wrench on the DC-10, then worked the front seats on the baby 'Bus, DC-9, MadDog, and finally...
  17. Re: Whiskey Before Breakfast - Interesting Approaches?

    I would look at some of the original Canadian and Métis takes on this song, with crooked versions being very common. I'm sorry, but I'll have to go digging to find where I saw them last, it was a...
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    Re: Suggestions on a beginner "set list"

    I still have my copy of your book, tend to play my Irish tunes like I learned them at O'Gara's, and I teach folks to play 'em that way. Thanks for such hosting such a great session to learn tunes! ...
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    Re: LaPlant mandolins

    Lloyd is not really into the internet, but he is really, really into playing every single fiddle tune you know till way past everyone else has called it quits and gone to bed. At 91.
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    Re: Article on Chief O’Neil

    It has always appealed to me that O'Neil learned "Off to California" while working as a sheep herder in the mountains of California as a young man.
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    First, a very nice thank you to all that offered help, and secondly, I found a solution that works for me! I can now generate my tune books in a PDF file that is entirely searchable by PDF file...
  22. Re: Transcriptions for Butch Baldassari's "Travellers" Album?

    Hi Jake,
    I went through my .tef files and found whatever I could that came off the Traveler's album. Some of the tunes are almost exact transcriptions, such as El Grillo, Birdland Bounce, Chief...
  23. Re: Transcriptions for Butch Baldassari's "Travellers" Album?

    There are a lot of TablEdit .tef files out there from either Mandozine or CoMando that covered most of the tunes on the album. The versions are close to what is played on Travellers, which I agree is...
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    Re: ABC Converter?

    I have been using ABCExplorer for years. It's freeware designed by a French guy. Designed for Windows XP, it runs fine on my Windows 10 computer. Edit, play, transpose, print PDFs, JPGS, and other...
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    Re: NMD 1989 Flatiron Performer A

    Welcome to the Flatiron Performer A Club, you're going to really like it. Good thing you've got the wrist rest and pick-up; won't get too confusing if I sit next to you with my '96 Performer-A.
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