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This is another piece from the Balcarres manuscript. As before, all credit to Rob MacKillop, as it is essentially his guitar arrangement that I play as a mandolin duet.

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All the best manuscripts have already been transcribed https://www.village-music-project.org.uk/. :))

With reference to a conversation with Jim Imhoff a while ago about how to classify music, I'm really unsure if this is Baroque or traditional, so I am taking the liberty of posting to both boards.
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I recorded a version of this tune several months ago with overdubbed guitar and bass. I've received some requests since then for a solo version of the tune featuring just mandola. Long story short, I...

Inbal Segev has some great you tube videos about various Bach solo pieces, she talks about implied harmony, and musical punctuation (where one phrase or melodic idea stops and another starts). While...

Paganini was as good a guitarist as he was violinist and wrote a number of works for the instrument. Among them was a series of 43 ghiribizzi or "fancies." These are short pieces of varying...

Yesterday afternoon my wife, Lee, and I drove to nearby Providence RI to visit the gravesite of the great Golden Age mandolinist, Giuseppe Pettine (1874-1966). The grave, shown below, is located in...

Hi - I've posted about this collection before, but it's been quite a while.
I play mandola and viola and lived in New England for a long time. I've since moved to Seattle, WA, but I still love the...

At the time Orville Gibson was developing his innovative mandolin designs, Art Nouveau (aka Jugendstil, Stile Liberty, Modernisme, Modern Style) was still prominent and considered very modern....

The session in the Waverley Bar, Edinburgh, hosted by top Scots singer George Duff, is usually quite busy. However, last weekend there was just myself, the wonderful fiddler John Martin and top...

indeed a question for the ages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

"Nazanin Yari Man" (Traditional song from Tajikistan):
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"Cidlaan Dareemaya" (Somali song):
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"Ax dê û bavê me" (Kurdish song):
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"Zarbi Segah" ضربی سه گاه...

If you've never read this Onion article about the invention of the Hyperbolic Chamber, I would encourage you to do so.
I often think of it when I read floral descriptions like the FrankenGibson. ...

In his 1913 method for mandocello, Zarh Myron Bickford briefly discussed unaccompanied performance on the instrument which, he noted "at the present time, is to a great extent an unexplored field."...

Our son was visiting a bit over the Christmas holiday and before he left this morning, I was able to put a mandolin into his hands for a little bit and we recorded this at home yesterday. This...

The best bang for the buck I know of in F-5's these days is not on Gibsons.
We have a cornucopia of choices these days.

For example, Paul Newson's mandolins are very good. Not cheap at $8500...

This is my arrangement of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Stone Flower," performed here by the New American Mandolin Ensemble (NAME) in its original configuration (from left to right, Mark Davis, mandolin...

I was on tour with a Cirque du Soleil show, hitting open mic/blues jams (with the electric mando in my avatar). We were in Spain, and I couldn't find anywhere to jam. Turns out that the little...

Just got done listening to Caterina Lichtenberg and Mike Marshall's CD of Bach inventions and felt inspired to play one. You can even watch it in 4k!

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Enjoy and keep on picking!

From French mandolinist Annick Robergeau-Bonnet.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Amx-QQAlw&feature=youtu.be

A year ago, the orchestra I play with in Athens Greece (MandolinARTE) performed its last concert before the pandemic (ahhhh good times).

Anyway, we played a beautiful piece of music from the...

Here’s the video from a Patrick’s post. I thought she would be playing mandolin but she does a nice job on violin on that Bach.


https://youtu.be/C18dhD3EmI4

I'm still having some conversations with diverse industry players on this. I'll share word as there's more, but for now, note this new word (and emboldened paragraphs) from Astute Music:

I found out about Ignatius Sancho recently after watching the BBC documentary "Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History" and discovered that he had composed music for violin, mandolin, German...

Bob Dylan heard plenty of Bluegrass back in the day. At the 1963 Newport Festival also on the bill were Jim & Jesse, Bill Monroe, & Doc Watson. Here's a clip of Bob D playing with Earl Scruggs....