WHERE do all these people work that allows mandolin playing? Next thing ya know people will be playing with their phones at work! :grin:
WHERE do all these people work that allows mandolin playing? Next thing ya know people will be playing with their phones at work! :grin:
Hey gang, here are the other 3 Ukrainian tunes that I learned at Lark camp in the 80's.
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they don't show up well, but they download as a pdf.
Hi mandolinists,
In sympathy with the Ukrainian people, I wanted to share a Ukrainian folk tune, a waltz in Am, with staff notation and TAB.
The TAB is just the most basic version, I often...
Okay, so this has already been discussed in a good amount of detail on the other thread, but here's the pictures and part of the story. I'm reinterpreting the story Dave wove for me.
It came from...
Ha ha, I succumbed to GIAS and bought myself another Stradolin, clarinet, that is. My husband thinks I'm crazy. I haven't played one of these in 45 years. Ha still have a little muscle memory and can...
Been a while since I posted anything on this forum, but one of my bands just released a new song with me playing the mandolin. I think it turned out pretty well, so I wanted to share :)
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Unlike a violin bridge most like a mandolin bridge to tilt slightly toward the tailpiece rather than being straight up. It helps when tuning and the drag of 8 strings pulling the bridge forward. I am...
My brother and I went up to Vermont last week to visit Jake at the Wildwood Flower. Just to visit, I swear ;)
We spent a couple hours playing with different instruments on his wall and shooting the...
I'm not sure about the substance in question, but I recall musicians telling the audience this on dance gigs:
"the more you drink, the better we sound".
Sounds like I should hand some out to the audience.
Yes, yes I do. And they'd be right. (I think ... my sureness has surely become less assured due to all this surliness and discomfiture.) I think "got" is still acceptable, though. :confused:
The...
There was an accordion at my house growing up. I think it belonged to my dad's uncle. He was from Cleveland and of Polish descent; polkas were likely involved. Nobody seriously played it, but us kids...
Say no more!
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I may be a bit odd in this regard, but I actually like changing strings on my mandolins. I really like my mandolins and I feel as if I am somehow caring for them when I change their strings. In...
My experience has been that the ambient temperature is more of a determining factor than humidity. If the temperature drops my strings go sharp, and when the temperature rises the strings go flat. ...
I have read that when you play a string instrument your body temp warms it. When you put it in the case it cools down contracting the metal of the strings. So as the metal contracts the pitch tends...
I think it depends what kind of music you play, and indeed how you play.
I am Scottish, and I nowadays use a .88 Dunlop pick. For my guitar and octave mandolin playing I use either a .73 Dunlop...
What is a simple way to make a video of a solo performance with my own accompaniment, considering I'm technologically challenged? I've been checking out apps (Android) that would allow me to post...
Dark pubs with brown carpets and brown picks... shudder... been there done that!!
Sounds like your nut might be too high. Too much tension when you fret causes notes to go sharp?
6 String balalaika!
Hey Ma... Look what followed me home.
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Can I keep it, Ma, pleeeeeze? I promise to learn how to play it :cool:
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Just to show what was the way to hold a mandolin in the old bowlback-era books:
https://www.themandolintuner.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Holding-the-mandolin.jpg
Plus, one can stand and...
Oh, wow, I get to go first...
Well, I am in the minority of folks on this forum that love bowlback mandolins. I tend to play more Italian and other music rather than the style on the video, but...
If there's a real edge where your picking hand rests, just take a piece of 200 grit sandpaper and carefully round it off a little. Even a very slight round will make it more comfortable. I've done...