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I can 'chop' barre chords on an OM, and I do it on my tenor a lot. I don't really try to reach the real chop chords.
It mostly sounds like a muted guitar, but there is a lot of variety of sounds...

On the Mandolin and Beer podcast I heard Mike Marshall say that chop chords shouldn't be played on Octave Mandolins. He mentioned this when giving an example of the type of mistakes he may see one of...

I did a search for "Tim O'brien octave mandolin" and found some great live videos. (He plays different genres, including bluegrass and celtic, on different instuments, including mandolin and octave...

That is an over-generalization. Yes, if you play a chord on a mandolin and then quickly mute it, that could be considered percussion and that is usually the purpose in a bluegrass band since there...

ITM is "Irish Traditional Music".

"quite keen to play swing jazz (trad and gypsy especially"

Good, because I can offer some assistance there, being a native New orleans jazz musician and a...

Enjoy your new instrument!

As for the octave mandolin, it really depends what sort of music you like and would care to play. ITM or other "Celtic" music? Italian music? Obviously Bluegrass since...

With your help I've assembled a bunch of mando instruction books to work through, that seem to work together:

Mandolin for Dummies
Mandolin Greg Horne (complete)
The Complete Mandolinist...

re-reading the original post I see the poster was asking for suggestions of tunes, and coming from a flat-pick fiddle backround. So here comes a bunch of that. Not to suggest that the book and...

If you are interested in playing any style of jazz, I'd suggest:

1. Listening to a lot of the best players of all eras - particularly horn players - to help you internalize the sound and swing of...

Last year it was Oh Esther Where Art Thou? #A Downhome Jewgrass Purim featuring the Soggy Matzah Boys. #This year were really plugging in with The Not Ready For Purim Time Players. Here's the short...