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    Re: Thanks Scott!

    Forgive me if I plagarize myself from another recent thread, responding to the OP's thanks for helpfulness ...
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    Re: I miss the Classified Guitar posts....

    Fortunately for us, there's plenty of guitar-porn still out there!
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    Re: Voyageur & French Canadian Folk Songs

    Indeed they do ... nice!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjoByUJbPQ

    Of course, I may be a bit prejudiced by six decades of familiarity (even if I couldn't find a video real quick!) ......
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    Emphatic YES!!

    Plus, it took some time to learn what "holding the pick loosely" is supposed to feel like, allowing it to angle down on the upstrokes while still not, ya know, flying across the...
  5. Paul Hostetter's website is available ....

    I am SO happy to see that Paul Hostetter's website is again available; when I last looked 5 or 6 months ago, it was not. It's a wonderful resource, and he was a frequent poster here.

    IIRC, his...
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    Re: playing late and drinking

    Y'all are bringing back way too many pleasant memories. While I've described my folk music experience as "'round the campfire", that mostly means "'round the 6-pack".


    Only once that made an...
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    Suspectin' that Gene 'n' the boys jus' tuned to that there piano out on the back porch!
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    Re: Gig material

    ... as is Hank Williams. Most folks will have some familiarity with 5 - 10 songs under both suggestions. (Or is that 77 y/o thinking?)
  9. Re: Jam Etiquette / Rules Question - Should songs be banned

    Since that's a recurring theme in this thread, per "Turkey in the Straw", I have to comment (just off the top of my head, without further reseserch):

    Many of our popular folk and "childrens" songs...
  10. Re: Jam Etiquette / Rules Question - Should songs be banned

    Been there: Senior Citizens' club Christmas luncheon, maybe 5 years ago. Requested song was "Edelweiss", and that gig is now one of MY warmest memories!
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    Re: Question About Carry-On Instruments

    Thanks for that. Personally, I'll probably still carry (meaning that I haven't yet) the full 6-page details with the specific parts highlighted. The full text is "Federal Register/Vol. 80, No....
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    Re: New Batwing coming soon

    Looks as nice as I had hoped it would. And sounds good, on thus-far limited experimentation into a Roland Micro-Cube.

    But, two minor disappointments:

    - After the comments about excellent...
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    Re: Overthinking tone

    Lots of possible factors involved; strings, technique, pick, room reflectivity, etc. But, F-holes generally tend to project outward, toward the audience, more than oval holes do. I'm blown away any...
  14. Re: Help identifyiing this mandolin/what is it worth?

    I'm far from expert but, as best I recall from 25-30 years ago browsing Rudy's and the other shops on NYC's 48th St., "Alvarez" and "Alvarez-Yairi"-branded instruments, all from Japan, have run the...
  15. Re: What’s going on with low inventory of mandolins at shops?

    1- Having started on guitar 6+ decades ago, even today's cheapest instruments are at least decently built. It's as if the bottom 30% of 1970's market just vaporized.

    2- "Set-up" is continually...
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    Re: Where to buy used?

    Jeff - Very well said!

    And your whole story is real familiar, even if I'm only 20+ miles from NYC, where you still won't find extensive inventories of mandolins... especially after Stan Jay...
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    Re: Please help I.D. this mandolin tailpiece

    IIRC, an early issue of Fretboard Journal had an (as usual, excellent) article on Holzapfel's 12-strings.
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    Re: fondy moisten Ibanez mandolin guitar

    Uhmm... It sortta has me thinking that maybe the mandolin-guitar was moistened at the Bay of Fundy. when the 30-foot high tide arrived at 8:05...?
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    Re: Playing at outside wedding

    You don't note the geographic location, but I'm picturing the northeast / New England in mid-to-late October. Even the best of Fall days mean a bit of breeze, with rustling trees & shrubs, and...
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    Re: Request for a few standards for jams

    FWIW, I was a marginal singer for decades, sometimes almost on key. Then when it got to reading notation on mandolin, I'd play the notes while SINGING the names of them, easily referenced against...
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    Re: Request for a few standards for jams

    It would be hard to go wrong with this one, for only $10-12 or so:
    https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/content/554-New-in-Print-JAM-Songbook-by-Pete-Wernick-and-Liam-Purcell

    ... and to be aware of...
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    Re: What kind of mandolin is this?

    As a fan of Neil Young's acoustic side, I can only say that that recent (Aug. '23) performance was REALLY nice! Can't fathom that the song is now 30+ years old! Would be extra nice if Neil actually...
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    Re: Strap problem

    On mandolin, I find that "at the nut" interferes with the fretting hand. (Guitar has both more room and somewhat different hand positions.) Around the headstock & thru the tuners works for me.
    ...
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    Re: Any idea what this is?

    Ha! The tuners sort of look like they're riveted, except for not coming thru the front.

    Anyway, this should help, compliments of the late Paul Hostetter who was a frequent poster here:...
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    Re: Self-taught vs. …not!

    Great question! But it almost inherently means different things to different people, as we've all grown up (musically as well as physically!) in different eras, and had different learning materials...
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