Wow, I'm very impressed! It's a beautiful mandolin. and your frugality is admirable!!
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Wow, I'm very impressed! It's a beautiful mandolin. and your frugality is admirable!!
Thanks Andre66! My right hand is fine, thankfully, and I've been doing some right hand exercises. I got very very lucky! And I'm glad this thread came up, because now I'm seeing the callouses coming...
I just noticed an Eastman MD304 for sale here in Japan. I googled the 304 and could only find Japanese sites, so sorry about that. You can see 305s in the States, I believe. I think if the 304 had...
I got Stephen Parker's book a few months ago, and I've really been enjoying it. I have a hard time swinging a lot of it, but I don't think that's necessarily required. They are still fun for me to...
Seven months in to playing the mandolin, the pain is a fading memory, so hang in there!!
But I was hit by a car riding my bike to work last Tuesday, and broke my pinky, ring and middle fingers...
Sorry I didn't notice this earlier. I own a maple back and sides Red Valley, and I really love it. It looks very well built to me, and I like the unique sound of mine. It is very clear and has kind...
Wacky, indeed! What is the story behind it? I'm sure Dr. Cohen has a good reason for bracing it that way.
You can play it however you like, as long as everything is scaled proportionally (half note = 1 beat/down+up, in you case) and in rhythm. But in common time, A quarter note that comes after an eighth...
I have one I bought new this year and it's decent. Only two things I don't really like about it. One is a personal thing, the nut is just a little narrower than I would like. The other is that the...
Was it this?
This is very educational, thanks!:)
Sounds wonderful! I wish it were here in Japan. I'm very interested in blues mandolin, and I've watched a number of your videos. Your approach sounds like it will have very positive results! Wishing...
They certainly don't all have those finish scratches. My first mandolin, an Eastman 504, did not, and I have not seen them on the other Eastman mandolins I've seen. I haven't personally seen a Loar...
I accidentally badly scratched my first mandolin (Eastman 504) right after I got it and panicked a little. I bought the Big Bends Axe Wipe and Encore Scratch Remover, and it worked perfectly. Now I...
Thanks again for all the comments! It's pretty much done, except for the 12th fret being too high, so I need to do some leveling, but for now I'm letting her play it, and she's having a lot of...
Wow, thank you for that information Journeybear! I had never seen it before I bought the Suzuki mandolin, so this was the only place I could think of to ask what it was. After find out what it was, I...
Thank you to everyone for your comments! I'm going to take it to work with me today to try to finish during my lunch break, because she can't wait to play it. I just need to lower the nut a bit, and...
Thank you, Chasray! That was her special request.
Hello from Japan! Welcome to the forum and thank you for the link! I look forward to checking out the scores.:)
My co-worker, a home economics teacher, identified it as a traditional Japanese tool to mark the lines for sewing. So it seems the previous owner was a tailor.:)
I had the crazy idea to make a piccolo mandolin for my daughter's sixth birthday, and here is the nearly finished result. It's past her birthday now, but she's still happy to see it. I only have some...
The shaft is wedge-shaped, and the taper to the wider, flat end makes it appear as if it was made that way, and not just worn down by plucking with one corner. I'm fairly certain this has nothing to...
Nele, that is expensive tofu! So there is one inexpensive thing in japan.:)
I have never seen a mandolin orchestra before, but now I think I will try to find a performance in my area and see....
I recently won a Suzuki M-30 bowlback mandolin through an online auction, and it came with a strange object. The seller it's "a tool for tuning?" I doubt that. If anyone has ever seen something like...
I'm sorry it is so expensive, Nele. Anytime you find something from Japan, I would be happy to help. Unfortunately, everything here but tofu is expensive! :( (I don't know how much tofu costs in...