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The Italians have an expression: "Dolce far niente". "Dole-chay far nee-entay". It roughly translates as,
"The sweetness of doing nothing". In my estimation, very necessary in our lives from time to...

It would seem sensible to select frets small enough that when you "touch bottom" behind the fret it hasn't stretched the string to the point of going noticeably sharp. I wouldn't want to have to...

Only my opinion of course, but this is what I would call a great mandolin (mandola).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_hTMelx8vo&list=WL2E079759DCC6B6F4

TDC/

Anybody see the nice review of Bach performances by Thile in today's WSJ? (Fri. 10/25)

Thomas/

My nephew builds antique reproductions that The Philadelphia Art Museum sells, and he too buys logs. He has an interesting way of reducing the size and thickness of the lumber he needs. Often,...

You also need to correct the meter.

Love the parakeet. They love human companionship and attention. Bet he loved the mandolin playing. They like to be right in the middle of things.

A few have mentioned that this obviously humorous thread is prompting posters to seek the serious side. I think the reason we are is because the whole idea of having to be dishonest in order to...

Hey! Wait a minute! I resemble that remark. Don't compare my $40 dollar Rogue (after the discount) with those junk Fenders! I take my axe very seriously.

T.

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Tal Farlow!!

There's only one reason a professional changes equipment. Enough $$$$ or other inducements.
Does anybody seriously think that he did it because the D'Addarios are better?

Cheryl W. said, "I learned notation (on guitar) starting at 10 years old and I have never really liked it. When I found out about tablature, I took to it right away. It is clearer to me and I like...

Can a person play a tune from tabs that is totally unfamiliar to them? Having never heard it, I mean?

Exactly right! I mean EXACTLY right!!

A very pure-sounding instrument! Solid luthery and a finish to die for! I keep Arik Kerman mandolins as my ideal, and the sound of your #16, if computer/video/cheap headphone sound can be a reliable...

There it is in a nutshell.

TDC/

Right. Got it. I guess less expensive mandolins only sound better on MP3's, and that perhaps the true fullness and color of the $5,000 ++ mandolins simply don't record as well on those cheap,...

Okaaaaaaay! (Are you in your bedroom closet by any chance? Hey, not that I was ever hiding out there or anything . . . .just askin')

T.

Why don't you stop already! We are all too close to the times in which recent political history has taken place, and we can't have any true perspective on what longer-term history will reveal. ...

Luciano Pavarotti told the story about when he was almost ready to perform in public, but hadn't yet and was still studying at the rehearsal halls at La Scala. He said he was bone weary of studying...

Dear Jim,
If you plan to give away any mandolins in the near future, I know a very deserving recipient - namely me. :)

signed,
Thomas.

The reason I said that for mandolins the wide or narrow grain doesn't seem to matter much is because so many quite expensive mandolins ore offered with really slashy-grained tops. While pretty from a...

In the woodworking business that is called 'slash grain'. It is produced by cutting slices off a log as though you were cutting slices off the side of a sausage instead of across the end.
The other...

Sure, I can. Eigenvalues are when Eigen mandolins go on sale, and "eigenvectors" is misspelled. It was meant to be spelled, "Eigenplectrums", which are the free picks they give out when they have an...

Yeah, but don't go out on stage until you pee.