I've read this thread with interest. The church we've attended for many years has a pretty firm "core competency" (to use business terms) for its musical style. I have tried at times to insert...
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I've read this thread with interest. The church we've attended for many years has a pretty firm "core competency" (to use business terms) for its musical style. I have tried at times to insert...
Thanks for the encouragement to think of the sound as a feature instead of a bug. I've watched some of the Mike Marshall videos. His low C-string vibrates musically. It's helpful to connect that...
I am the newest owner, courtesy of the Mandolincafe Classifieds, of a lovely Fylde cittern. It arrived strung CGDAE. That works well for me because I am a melody player who came to mandolin from...
I've had good experience with solid hobbyist brass instruments from Thomann (flugelhorn for my brother that is now mine) and Gear4Music (bass trombone and tenor horn). On checking the G4M website...
I have a Fylde Single Malt mandolin that I love. It was an unplanned upgrade from an Eastman 505 after I had the chance to visit the Fylde workshop. As has been suggested, get on the newsletter and...
I add a vocal track that says something simple like "Clap on 3. 1, 2, 3, clap. Two bars in. 1-2-3-4-2-2-3-4." I include the clap in the audio tracks and also when I record the video. It's a simple...
My first decent mandolin was an MD-505. I did visit a handful of stores in Indianapolis and played different models. I could tell a difference in sound between the 305 and 505, but not the 505 and...
Thanks, John. It's a lovely instrument that is a lot of fun to play. It's also a lot of fun, in non-quarantine times, to watch responses from people who see the stained top when I take it out of...
My setup is pretty low-tech. I record audio in GarageBand on my iPad with a Samson goMic ($35 at Staples), then do some very basic mixing in GarageBand on my computer. I'm really early on the...
I first heard this song on Mandolin Mondays earlier in 2021. Here is my cover. It was my first foray into learning a song by slowing it down and transcribing versus finding sheet music. The result...
Tune for Fee is lovely, Aidan. Here is my cover (also my first foray into tinkering with my own harmony parts).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7cCK_p7YKw
Sonatina in C major is the first song I heard that I associated with mandolin. This was on the first Beethoven's Wig CD, and was a Father's Day gift in 2007. A couple years later a family member...
https://youtu.be/VeQpDYfBe_A
Hope Never Lost is a lovely tune written by hammered dulcimer player Matthew Dickerson in honor of his stillborn infant sister. I've been wanting to learn it for a...
Are you including Indianapolis in "south / central?" Indy String Theory (https://www.indystringtheory.com/) and Scott Campbell (https://sdcguitars.com/) are both options, although maybe a little...
To search for sheet music, go to https://musescore.com/. There is a search bar at the top of the page. Type in a term (e.g., Carolan), and it will take you to a bigger search page. You can filter...
In addition to changing the key signature when you import the PDF from musescore's website, you can also transpose within the song. Tools - Transpose - By Interval, and make sure that the "Transpose...
I had a custom case made by Coon Hollow Canvas (http://coonhollowcanvas.com/musicalinstrumentcases-html/) for an octave that was shipped to me in a pretty beat up banjo case. It included a pocket...
Thanks, both, for your comments. I will get the tone bar and brace checked. There's another EM150 thread about someone doing that repair on an instrument that was in considerably worse shape than...
I had a stretch where I was traveling for business every few months. I stuck my mandolin in my gig bag and took it with me. It was a great way to get practice time in. I still use it sometimes...
That difference threw me for a while when I lived in the UK. Once I understood that it was just a difference in convention, I had lots of fun browsing the Hobgoblin listings. I lucked into a used...
Short question: I have a Gibson EM150 that has been largely untouched for the 12 years I've owned it. I'm curious what, if any, serious care I should give it. I recognize there is a judgment call...
181864181865 Here are a couple pictures of the Eastman padded gig bag that mine came in. I'm taking notes on the hard case comments for a "maybe someday" thought experiment.
Thanks. It's a lovely instrument. I was quite happy with my Eastman MD505 until I played this one on a visit Roger Bucknall's shop while living in the UK. My wife finally told me to buy it so that...
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There were a couple MDA315 ads in the classifieds a month or so ago. I waited a few days to think about responding to the first one, at which point it had already sold. I learned my lesson...
Dave Bagdade, who broadcasts the Kitchen Party Ceilidh radio show from Indianapolis, did two shows featuring this compilation Nov 25 and Dec 9). They're available on his website,...