I ended up with the Northfield Calhoun and I am not disappointed. It is an excellent mandolin and the tone is incredible. Fit and feel is exceptional. Tuners are excellent. I feel great about...
I ended up with the Northfield Calhoun and I am not disappointed. It is an excellent mandolin and the tone is incredible. Fit and feel is exceptional. Tuners are excellent. I feel great about...
I know. I now know. There was some time for discovery. It took a few instruments and a lot of books and downloads before I discovered classical music. Once I did know that classical was the direction...
Thank you. I am working on it.
I do wholeheartedly realize that you can play classical music with any mandolin.
I have a bowlback and I am not happy with it. It needs work and my luthier has told me no bowlbacks.
A replacement...
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Amada bowl back mandolin from the Czech Republic. #0556. 50’s era.
I know that this is not a high end unit and the 50's era is not too old but it is about...
Thank you for the input.
I did not realize that there are 2 different models of the clip on tuner. The Polyphonic version and the Unitune, the model which is strictly chromatic. The Unitune sounds like it would be fine with...
I am attempting to learn “Bach’s Frolics”.
I is a lot for me, but I am pleased as it is coming along just fine. Hopefully some of you have heard of this song.
What is the “BPM” that I should be...
Thanks everyone for the replies. I do realize that I need to drop the tabs. I will certainly continue to work on that. And I will follow through and check out the links that were so graciously...
This is an older post and I have since drawn my own mandolin fretboard diagram. I would like to share it with you.
The image does not look perfect but it prints out just fine.
I hope that people...
And if anyone's interested here is the same layout for the guitar!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v690/waynebagley/guitarfretboard.png
Here is a diagram of the mandolin fretboard with the accompying notes on the staff. The formatting is not perfect but it prints out quite nicely.
I think you'll find this layout easy to follow. I...
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