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    Re: Gretsch New Yorker Review

    They've done great with the "Roots" collection. I bought an inexpensive guitar from that series that sounds good and is really fun to play. I'll have to checkout the mandolins. Thanks!
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    Re: Compare Three F5 Mandolins

    #1
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    Re: The winner of the Collings MT2 Giveaway

    Todd - it sounds like you're really going to play and enjoy this beauty. That makes me happy! :whistling:
  4. Re: If you DIDN'T win the MT, what was your actual entry?

    The Sunset Limited - The colors of the spruce top evoke the lands connected by this revered train line. This mandolin is a journey linking wood and soul...
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    Re: The winner of the Collings MT2 Giveaway

    Congrats to Todd and thanks for the great contest!
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    Re: New member and new mandolin

    Very cool. I picked up mandolin almost a year ago after playing guitar for ages. I'm really enjoying it and I hope you do as well. Beautiful instrument.
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    Re: What Songs Did YOUR Dad Love?

    Sometimes dad would talk-sing "Hey, Good Lookin'" or "Goodnight Irene." Good memories...
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    Re: How I chose my current physician

    Clark - sounds like something I'd do. Good luck!
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    Re: Free V-Picks - Right Here

    I've heard about them, but would love to try one. :)
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    Re: This is awful, but ...

    No one wants to think they've wildly overpaid for something. It's frustrating. I can't help but look at prices sometimes, but I never obssess - who knows what shape that other instrument is really...
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    Re: learning mandolin and learning to read music?

    Learning to read music feels a lot like work to me, like math did in fourth grade. It's not fun for me, I don't like it, and I've never learned. That being said, I've remained a very elementary...
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    Re: Few vs "the one"

    I love having instruments around the house. Some are played every day, some go months untouched. They're in my house, though, beautiful, wooden, built by a real person. They come out at parties or...
  13. Thread: Mandolin magnet

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    Re: Mandolin magnet

    Excellent score!
  14. Re: What do you do when a mandolin isn't in your hands?

    I read and cook and hang out with friends. I play guitar in a band that performs about once a month. Work takes the most time, but I'm going to set that aside in a few months. :whistling:
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    Re: Mandolin TABS for well known songs

    I believe the difficulty you are describing is that looking at TAB doesn't allow you to play a melody you are not familiar with. If That's the case, many of these tunes may be heard, on mandolin, on...
  16. Thread: New tune book

    by bookmn
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    New tune book

    Just curious if anyone has seen this: "Folk Songs For Mandolin: Sing, Strum and Pick Along," by Bobby Westfall. It's relatively new. Sounds like it would have lyrics and chords, but I'm wondering if...
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    Re: Beginner Lessons. What should I be learning?

    Whether the teaching is "proper" or not depends a lot on what you want. I took one lesson and realized it was a terrible mistake. I want to pick a couple tunes, learn some tips and tricks and...
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    Re: Pictures of a ceilidh I played at in Poolewe

    Enjoyed having a look - appears to have been a fine day!
  19. Re: Mandolin Christmas in August way too enthusiastic?

    Are you strumming and singing or playing instrumentals?
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    Re: Do i have it wrong or am i just a contrary?

    If we can agree that there is such a thing as "good," as in "good music," it becomes very easy to distinguish between the category of "good" and the category of "popular." They can overlap, and...
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    Re: Mando-inspired Haiku

    Tune trapped in marble
    Awaiting its sweet release
    Chip away false notes
  22. Thread: Canadian Waltz?

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    Canadian Waltz?

    There's a nice tune by this name on the Boys Of The Lough cd Good Friends - Good Music. I started looking for the TAB and found that there a a couple of other tunes with the same name, perhaps better...
  23. Thread: Newbie

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    Re: Newbie

    Welcome from another relative newbie. Hanging around here has really accelerated my mandolin education. :mandosmiley:
  24. Re: 2013 Ratliff Country Boy F vs. 2012 JBovier F5 Studio

    Well, it's a beauty, that's for sure. Thanks for sharing and enjoy!
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    Re: Satan is Real - Louvin Brothers

    Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the reminder. I look forward to reading it...
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