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    Re: String guage for 1917 Gibson

    I don't know how much tension the vintage A's can take or not take. I use lower gauge strings on my Gibson 1921 just because I get much better intonation on the G and D string sets with a lower...
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    Re: How much do you think about mandolins?

    My family/friends think of me and my mandolin together...like we're married and still very much in love with each other. It isn't often that they see one of us without the other.
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    Re: What about humid weather?

    Yes, it didn't take me long to find some on the internet either! I've already ordered some. Plus, I'm a hopeless pack rat, so I had a baggie with several small packets already that I'd saved from...
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    Re: What about humid weather?

    Thank you very much for that link! Lots of good information there. But, I scared myself.

    We've gone from 30% humidity last week, to 87% right now. I'm very glad I asked. I checked the mando...
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    Re: What made you start playing mandolin?

    Wow! Such interesting stories on this thread!

    I started playing piano as a little girl. Although music wasn't my major, I spent a lot of time hanging around the music department in college so...
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    What about humid weather?

    I'm familiar with what can happen to an instrument when the humidity gets too low in the winter...and I use humidifiers in the case and the house for that.

    But, what happens in very humid weather?...
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    Re: To change strings or not

    Don't forget to use the GHS for fragile instruments strings! Heavier strings will destroy the bowlback. Best to you, at this difficult time.
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    Re: Happy Birthday, Scott!

    My sentiments exactly. Happy Birthday from Missouri!
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    Re: What tune do you warm up with?

    Not discipline, mandozilla. I just get irritated when I'm not playing my best, sounding my best...and until I'm warmed up and my hands all stretched out, I can't play as well. So when I'm ready to...
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    Re: wrinkles and spots

    I'm a member of AARP, doesn't that qualify me to join the age spots group? I'm 55. :)
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    Re: What tune do you warm up with?

    Well, so far, I'm the most boring, tedious person on this thread! I start out with scales and pinky exercises, then on to double-stops and chords for each scale.
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    Re: Elderly hands, strength and speed

    Another thing to try is epsom salts. Everyone knows it's for sore muscles, etc., but the important thing is that it is made of magnesium sulfate. The body doesn't absorb magnesium very easily from...
  13. Thread: Pick Directions

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    Re: Pick Directions

    I read tab or notation. Yes, I agree that it's much easier with standard notation to see the kinds of notes, time signatures, etc., to help with the pick directions.

    The ways to determine the...
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    Re: Tornados

    Yikes! I live in tornado alley, too. I would just add: the dog and my laptop! Glad you're safe!
  15. Thread: Beginner style

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    Re: Beginner style

    What kind of music do you like to listen to? A mandolin can play any kind of music...so the answer is in whatever bunch of CDs or tapes, or where your radio station is tuned, that you already have...
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    Elderly hands, strength and speed

    Subject moved from another thread...because this may be something to talk about and share.



    I have similar problems, so I can empathize. x-rays show that I don't have any cartilage left in my...
  17. Thread: Playing Faster

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    Re: Playing Faster

    The difficulty with old hands sounds like a good subject for another thread. I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to move it. I thank the original poster for the ideas to increase speed...I'll try...
  18. Thread: Pick Directions

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    Re: Pick Directions

    Late last night, I wasn't even thinking about accented notes, or what might need to be accented (not just the musically marked, but first notes of measures, etc.) I think that untangles the...
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    Re: Pick Directions

    Good grief! I just looked at the clock. It's 02:30 here. I've been working on pick directions for the last 4 hours. I'm hopeless.
  20. Thread: Pick Directions

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    Pick Directions

    OK, I'm sure this has been discussed ad nauseum many times before. Please forgive the revisit of this topic.

    Lately I've been on this quest to improve my technique. One thing I'm doing is...
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    Re: I'm new and need help!

    That is a beauty! I'm so glad your family didn't sell it. It's a keeper mandolin. Several mentioned about using strings for the fragile instruments...but it's been my experience that most music...
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    Re: Information about mandolin

    Yes, that's the kind I was thinking of. I check the worldwide auctions for mandolins every now and then, but I'm pretty sure I saw one with a similar pickguard on an English website. I'm surprised...
  23. Thread: Tove Flensborg

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    Re: Tove Flensborg

    Thank you so much! I'm danish, and love the mandolin, so you can understand why I'd want her recordings! I'll email you.
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    Re: I'm new and need help!

    I always enjoy hearing from someone who has just gotten the mandolin fever. You're not too old at all. There's lots of us second-childhood-age folks playing and just learning the mandolin....or any...
  25. Thread: Tove Flensborg

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    Tove Flensborg

    I've been trying to find a recording or MP3 of anything that Tove Flensborg has recorded...available in the USA or internet. I know she made a couple of CDs, but I sure haven't found one anywhere. ...
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