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thanks for all the info and advice. I will email Weber and ask them many questions.

I also have a lot of saving up to do, so that will give me a lot of time to look around and work out the little...

I'm saving up for my first octave. So far, I love the look of the Weber Hyalite A... has anyone compared how it sounds with oval vs f holes? Where I live means I can't try before I buy. I like the...

Other side of world
it's hot, humid, stinking hot...
makes me fall asleep.

At last! New music!
Sightreading gone out window
Where does the time go?

Love my mandolin.
when it arrived and i...

Gave up cigarettes. Took up mandolin.

he played the same song again....

out in the back yard
kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, stairs...
i've played everywhere

learn all the chords !! find heaps of great music. memorize it and have an organized folder with photocopies i can hand out. and practice scales. and get out there a bit more with the mandolin,...

i think my ears are better than my tuner. or maybe the batteries are just going flat...

be with my 2 year old daughter, read, listen 2 music, go to the beach, go for a bike ride, look up stuff on the internet, think about what i'm doing here, study part time, write letters to old...

ah but isn't it the things we say we'll never do that we often end up doing? crazy old world...

A (PanART) Hang Drum. If you can get your hands on one.
I'm not up to speed on how to put a video on the post here but if you go to youtube and look up 'hang drum,' the first on the list is a guy...

I have an almost 2 year old who is teething at the moment so I just sit up in bed and play myself to sleep for 20 mins or so. Its hard to choose what to do in those golden moments of self-time... so...

I had a look on the cafe and on google and have not found any mandolin gatherings in Australia. Surely I must be mistaken? I am in northern NSW but happy to travel... any links greatly appreciated....

thank you, your replies have been most helpful :)

I am wondering what it means when there are two chords together separated by a stroke like this: Em/D

Does it mean you can play either? or is it some funky combination of the two?

Thanks for...

Looking for a mandolin to take everywhere, still sounds good and playable but subject to damage. What does everyone here use as their beater?

[QUOTE=Stringhead;738392]Is there anyone else out there who has come back from a gig and just felt like crying from frustration? )

I have cried... had bad gigs and gone busking and got nothing at...

violin... but i only really enjoy playing it with other people. Alone it sounds too harsh and i can hear all my mistakes and I get bored. So since i've been without people to jam with for a little...

violin... it used to be... but now its the other way around since I got my new mandolin (weber aspen 2)

Yes, I do love it. I love it more every day:mandosmiley: i am very happy right now

I bought my first nice mandolin ever yesterday from the Mandolin Store... its on its way across the seas to my hungry fingers..
Custom Weber Aspen 2 ... even found its previous owner on the Cafe ! ...

Let us know how you liked the Jam Master.

Nah i'm not a lefty. the photo was taken from the camera in my laptop so maybe it flips it automatically or something. Thanks, I will be sure to message you shortly. I will be keen to take a trip in...

Hi,

I have seen in a couple of posts the use of 'MAS' and have no idea what it means....

Mandolin Apathy Syndrome?
Mandolin Absence Suffering?
Mandolins Are Sacred?

A translation would be...

Hey Jack,
When you were trying the jam master, did you happen to try an F-style oval hole? If so what was the difference?

Has anyone else out there tried the F and A style jam master ovals?...