I live in the Boston area, and am down for anything jugbanded. (Slide resonator, acoustic fingerstyle guitar, mandolin, and saw).
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I live in the Boston area, and am down for anything jugbanded. (Slide resonator, acoustic fingerstyle guitar, mandolin, and saw).
Not enough tunes about modern day outlaws. Someone had to do something about that. There is some mandolin in there, but you'll have to dig for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U16XWAs4ho8
I have a Mix and a Rainsong carbon graphite guitar, and these are the instruments I leave out (no fear of damage due to temperature or humitidy), so they are the instruments that get the most use. ...
I have one for my Rainsong guitar, because it has an under saddle pickup. I've tried the models with my Mix mando (the only one I have with an installed pickup), and couldn't get it to sound...
I just picked up a Spectrum DI. I have a guitar with an under saddle piezo and active preamp, and though there are not models that match my guitar, I got a good sound going direct to recording...
My Mid-Missouri had a 1 & 3/4 neck. It had a "W" designation. Maybe Big Muddy still offers that option.
I was there, my 4th time. At moments I was inspired - to quit. Listening to the faculty concerts, and the jams with faculty just blew me out of the water. I will have material to work on for the...
When we read, we recognize words in part by the 'shape' of the word (the length, balance of upper and lower case letters, etc.), and not by the order of letters alone. This means that when we use...
Someone stop me. I just bought my 4th Martin (if you count the little laminate LXM). I have a D-35 which I've played for 38 years, but bought a M-38, and compared them. Granted, it was not a fair...
The bathroom. The acoustics are very flattering to the sound of the mandolin. When I play my 12 string guitar, I wind up standing at the top of the stairs, facing a sloping roof just a few feet in...
Another, rather impractical suggestion: Buy a new guitar, ideally one that inspires you, that provokes you to play differently. Then you will want to pick it up. True, it won't increase the...
Here is a solution:
1. Buy a Grolsch beer.
2. Drink the beer.
3. Remove the red grommit from the ceramic bottle cap.
4. Wrestle grommit onto the endpin over the strap. It stays.
I just bought a 3/4 size travel guitar (Martin LXM) before my vacation, because I thought I could carry it on board a plane. Outbound, at the gate, they put a tag on it in case the flight attendants...
I've got a Mix A, #40, and its the one I leave in the stand by my desk; I don't feel compelled to put it away for safety, or keep in a humidified room. For this reason, it gets the most use. Things...
It may not grow louder, but it should, with regular use, grow larger.
I saw her on 2 different stages last weekend in Lowell, MA. She played short breaks in the context of bluegrass tunes, and I would have been happy to hear her open up, take extended breaks, and fly....
A guitarist for 50 years, I took up the mandolin about 3 years ago, the first new instrument since then (if you ignore a brief foray into bluegrass banjo, which ended the moment I needed to secure a...
I'm heading there myself tomorrow, and making time for the Frontera Grill.
Tourmani Diabate, "The Mande Variations"
[QUOTE=shawn9106;666520]I really like them. What are your guys opinion
If it were not against God's own natural law, I'd have taken a quilted maple back mandolin to be my wife.
I don't think I saw these other area jams mentioned: Sunday nights at the Skellig in Waltham, for old time music (anywhere from 8 to 22 folks show up, very relaxed), and Boston Front Porch,...
Try a layer of clear nail polish on the end pin, let it try. If this is not enough to make it snug, put on a second (or third) layer.
Michael, Yes, that was me (sans Mix) at mandolin camp. Still feeling elated about the whole thing, aside from being short on sleep and long on deserts.
I understand why the blended color might be...
I just got a A5 in trade (#40) a few weeks ago. I was surprised by the thickness of the neck, which will take a bit of getting used to. I'm still exploring the feel, the sound, but took a chance...
Larry Muth ships his mandolins without a case, in a foam-lined box he clearly made, cardboard on the outside with duct tape hinges. He reuses this box, and has folks send it back to him empty. No...