This is brilliant! Since my preferred approach to learning a new tune is to find as versions as possible on Youtube and try to play along with them, I can now do this even if the video is in a...
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This is brilliant! Since my preferred approach to learning a new tune is to find as versions as possible on Youtube and try to play along with them, I can now do this even if the video is in a...
Rockbag might work if you can find one: https://shop.warwick.de/en/cases-bags/other-string-instr.-bags/21512/rockbag-premium-line-mandolin-gig-bag
I use it for my Taran which I think has similar...
All will be revealed!
The only record I've maintained with any regularity is a tunebook https://thesession.org/members/40188/tunebook at thesession.org. I'm usually quite consistent in only adding tunes to it that I feel...
I've decided to put some serious effort into increasing speed...
At the moment I can play reels (Irish) including ornaments (triplets) around 90bpm, but the ornaments disappear over 100bpm, and...
I've bought stuff from Thomann (Germany) quite often, it arrives promptly as if it had been posted from the UK and with no extra charges.
I once bought something from Switzerland (not in the EU),...
Go to File, Options, Display tab and make sure Automatic Chord Diagrams is checked, then select Chords As Text Only.
If you don't like the automatic results then you can add them manually via Text...
Hathway mando can indeed be used for jigs and reels, check out Three Dollar Shoe on youtube e.g.
https://youtu.be/wATgt1L2rUQ
Go to File, Options, Page Layout tab and increase Height of Header of the first page.
I have an Ingles stand its nice but there doesn't seem to be anything to keep the feet apart?
Looks very similar to this Regal: https://picclick.com/ANTIQUE-1920s-REGAL-MANDOLIN-8-String-Teardrop-153306038407.html (but without the pickguard and fingerboard extension).
Seems to be all-birch...
Someone asked about an Octave Mandolin by the same company here back in 2013:
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/97030-Highland-Octave-Mandolin
There was a luthier operating under the...
OK I'll try for a Jazz LG35 with nothing on the back?
I wasn't actually in Denver but when you lose a pick who knows where it will end up!
Now if someone could invent a tool that made credit cards out of old picks, I'd buy two of those :)
If you have never played a mandolin before, you might want to consider nut width. Breedlove and probably others make a "crossover" model with slightly wider than normal mandolin nut width, precisely...
I see these mostly for leaning a guitar or bouzouki on rather than suspending mandos or fiddles. The situation is a pub so a short term thing - you prop it up while playing a second instrument, or...
The coding is not very consistent but here are some guesses from me:
TP- Triangular Pick
TP-1R - Triangular Pick with 1 rounded corner
TPR - Triangular Pick with all three Rounded corners
STP -...
I think maybe treat it as an engineering project, but not to expect engineering results.
So some bits you work on every day never seem to get finished, and other bits you work on hardly ever...
I'd do it for a plane ticket and some cannoli.
(I live in London so wouldn't actually need to buy a plane ticket.)
I think one of the purposes of playing scales is the brain does not have to process a lot of musical or other information - it is a just a musically predictable and physically fairly memorable...
I bought 3 direct from BlueChip, it attracted £16.87 VAT and an £8 "Royal Mail International Handling Fee". So the total price per pick worked out about £36. JP Guitars looks reasonable on that basis...
I'm liking the pointy tip and compact shape of the BlueChip Jazz picks at the moment, I seem to hit more triplets than with rounder tips. As for strings I'm using D'Addario EJ74 on an old Gibson A3...
My guess is a Fylde - built by Jolly Roger Bucknall. They have a crossbone nut and tailpieces of eight.
I can't comment on the science aspect but the journalist might benefit from a little history:
"The resulting chemical bonds make the wood strong enough to one day be used in buildings and vehicles"
Hank, to be honest when I ordered them I didn't even think about whether they were worm over or under. But these are A model tuners so all the shafts are the same length, I found I was able to...