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Yes, but that is not because of the wet box. It's because the box is tuned in equal temperament, while a fiddler likes to have pure fifths for the sake of resonance between strings. Mandolin players...

Right, I've experienced that difference even in Irish sessions. It's an ambivalence normally reserved for banjo players.

I am. Exactly my cup of tea.

There was a moment when I considered buying what I could from Roger Bucknall while it was easy.
But in the end I decided that I would not let my financial timing be controlled by a PM who cannot...

What? Can you post an example of something played in this tuning?[/QUOTE]

I do everything in wet tuning. But the OM lends itself to it much easier than the mandolin.

I like that lonely A-style among all the bowlbacks.

"all the tunes"? Memory needs concentration. Do not play 10 tunes from tab, but play one from ear over and over, until it haunts you and you hum it in your sleep. When you reach that point of not...

The first question occurring to me is What Are the Properties of Giraffe Bone that Make It a Desirable Nut Material? - and frankly, I guess there are none, which makes any other question about it...

A Viking variation on the theme...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnDLNSoOuoQ

I could say a lot about the benefits in getting used to playing for your worst critic, i.e yourself, but I found a Tee shirt that says it all.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRtEhAq7xP8

That's what popcorn was made for ;)

Thanks for making me learn a word I didn't know before.

I've often told this story, but here goes. After a youth darkened by unvoluntary violin lessons, I had stopped playing music altogether. After graduation and after having moved for my first job, on...

On the plus side, with that break angle it's probably inaudible.

Plateaus are neccessary phases of procedural memory reorganization. Once that is done, a sudden leap in ability is sure to come, if you just don't give up.
It's much like that "weeds" scene from...

We are all divided on this.
Personally, I like the scroll because it uses misplaced stylistic elements to mock the violin, which I was forced to learn to play in my youth and have hated ever since....

That seems to be the central question, the fog we are all groping about in. Once we agree on a test of musicality, we can start opining wether passing that test can be learned.

But I wouldn't be...

I always wondered if there is a submarine counterpart to playing the accordion to cows.

I would have called it a mandukulello.
But the center tuner feels weird in my mirror neurons.

I had a different acoustic deja-vu, and I think I know what Bratsche's next challenge is going to be... ;)

... and naturally distressed!

Not the worst point to start. Steeleye Span comes to mind...

What's wrong with novelties? The OM is at least as good for song accompaniment as the guitar, it can be fingerpicked, it can be wet-tuned.



Melody playing with lots of doublestops is what I do....

As for the age spectrum, I suspect there is a filter at work here. After all, this is not electric guitars.

Assuming you start playing at an age when the mandolin slowly looms out of the mists of...