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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    Thanks Mike, sounds like another vote for the National RM1, or a tenor banjo. I'm in Falmouth about half the time - thanks for the offer to try those. I may have to rationalise the instrument...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    Violin is an interesting one, Minorkey. It's my main instrument, and there's usually no problem hearing it as it's (most often) close under your left ear. It can be hard to tell how it projects...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    ...and you never get that luxury in English pub sessions I've been to, because the only time a solo happens is when somebody start a tune nobody else knows :)
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    Projecting sound is an interesting one. Classical violin groups have done experiments which seem to show that some players can project sound farther with the same instrument than others. With...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    I think I might be out, but I'm not sure :)
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    Never mind the US, Ray - I don't understand it, and I'm from Scotland originally :) On the other hand, how many in UK understand American football plays? Maybe that's what happened to it...
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    Re: Mando (and why to quit callin it that...)g

    And then there's the common misspelling of 'Mandoline' as 'Mandolin' referring to a vegetable slicer.
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    Re: Mando and Fiddle duo's

    Well if you both play fiddle and mando, you could stand close, one with a mano and one with a fiddle, and the mando player could bow the fiddle while the fiddler picks the mando. Oh, that's not what...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    Yes - I sawwhat looked like a good used one of these on Ebay UK a while back for a little over this price (from memory). This US one looks like it's been in a war zone. It's interesting that it's for...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    I guess the National RM-1 price looks OK alongside custom mandolins, but as an 'extra' instrument they're not cheap. In UK there's a reso mandolin that's based on the same principle as the metal reso...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    That combination of players might indeed work fine for most kinds of music, but socially, folk jams in UK aren't that organised. Everyone just pitches up and plays. As it's usually all or mostly...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    Thanks all for the comments and advice above. By the way, a couple of Jill's great clips above have people smiling while playing traditional music - that's great. It's good to see folks obviously...
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    Re: Locking your mandolin case

    I've never locked a case. I think the only thing locking a small instrument case guarantees is that someday you'll lock the case and lose the key. Sure, it stops the case falling open, but so does a...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    . and in this case there are often three differently pitched melodeons, so together they lay waste the whole frequency range, like a big Scottish tuned accordion. A Keech banjolin though - I don't...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    Ah - I hadn't though of one of those, I better start saving now...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    (duplicate)
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    Thanks for that - it's an Eastman 305 , not generally thought to be a shy and retiring instrument :)
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    What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    Hi - I play in folk sessions in UK with maybe a dozen mixed instruments, including up to 4 melodeons and a couple of banjos (5 strings, playing tunes). I have a tenor guitar tuned GDAE - can't hear...
  19. Thread: Overthinking tone

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    Re: Overthinking tone

    Might it be your Eastman 305 is a bit tight 'cos it's new and will loosen up and get louder? Mine did. Also, as someone suggests above, the F hole style mandolin appears to sometimes project across...
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    Re: Performing in a sport coat

    I used to play in tartan jacket and bow tie Scottish dance bands, but in the 70s I played in a longhair flares and cosmic T shirt good time bar band and both worked. I'd go for whatever feels right...
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    Re: What's a good New Year's musical Resolution?

    'Just do it' - re. everything. But if I just did it, I wouldn't be here, would I?
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    Re: Buying an instrument you have never played

    New electric instruments - yes, usually you'll get what you expect on a remote buy if you do your research first and are happy that the store is a good one, knows what you want and understands what...
  23. Thread: Keeping time

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    Re: Keeping time

    Is 'good' rhythm something you can set on a basic metronome? Perhaps some of you with more studio experience could tell us whether e.g. effective rhythm is mathematically precise, or whether it might...
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    Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer

    Well Journeybear, what can I say? I felt that constructive comment on your finely wrought panoply of reasoning on this investment was beyond my abilities, that all readers would appreciate the...
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    Re: Keeping time

    The trouble with metronomes is, the damn things never keep proper time when I use them :) However - years ago, I was involved with a home recording project that was recorded acoustically to a guitar...
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