Recordings and performances of acoustic mandolin with drums and amplified bass cause a bit of strain in my head. I saw Hamilton de Holanda live. It was quite loud, but his 10-string was as loud as...
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Recordings and performances of acoustic mandolin with drums and amplified bass cause a bit of strain in my head. I saw Hamilton de Holanda live. It was quite loud, but his 10-string was as loud as...
The key is friendly to the guitar, and my approach was to tune the mandolin up a half step. Playing in Bb/Eb allowed using the open D and G strings. Much easier.
Btw, my cousin has an act playing...
I remixed the audio to clean up the sound and get closer to the mandolin voice I intended. Now posted at my YouTube channel. I am pleased at being able to present good versions of tunes I wrote for a...
The piezo element is not an issue, the sound is entirely dependent on where it feels vibration. No pickup guarantees a natural sound. Appropriate EQ is important, especially to control the midrange...
Because my sets are 10 strings I use the bulk strings from JustStrings. From their tone I think they are GHS. Sold as dozens, and not coiled but in sleeves, a 10-string set costs me about $6.
I...
This rolls tomorrow, Sunday 3/10, at 8pm Eastern. We revisit the tunes from my "Tailwind" album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgMCZzERmgM
The service "Tidal", and premium services by Apple and Amazon pay the artist more than Spotify or YouTube. Artist might even earn a penny for a listen.
Thomastik's Dominant series would be my suggestion. Their Vision series is also good, but a bit brighter. They are not all-metal, but have a substantial fiber component to emulate gut strings.
As my picking technique has improved I use tremolo more often. But I am not playing standard repertoire, that is, neither Italian, or broader classical, and not bluegrass.
For my folk-dance gigs...
I played one pf these today. Tone is ok, but the layout is not ideal. The fingerboard is flat, the neck widens too much for me. String spacing at the bridge is rather wide. The body is usefully...
Ian is on staff this summer for Choro Camp New England.
Traditional tube amps are fine with a piezo source. I played a gig with a guitar player that cranked his Deluxe Reverb. He switched to mandolin with Fishman bridge pickup, plugged straight into the...
String pair spacing is pretty much identical to guitar strings, and a standard guitar pickup will work fine. Separate poles can offer customizing string response, which the blade style can't.
I...
My approach is the right pedal for a trace of clipping to emulate amp overdrive. Then I can control the tone after. I use AnalogMan's King of Tone. It allows a good amount of rich clean inside the...
I have three of Glenn's cases, the heavy leather with deep padding. My acoustic survived many airplane trips in the overhead compartment. That premium style was about $350. Given that I had no hard...
I don't find a need. As I noted, I need the mandolin scale length to reach my chord voicings.
15" would be too long for me. I can barely reach some voicings and would not give them up. 14" feels very slightly cramped but otherwise ok. I asked Pete Mallinson to use 14.25" to match the Buchanan...
Thanks for listening, folks.
Lots of players enjoy their single-course emandos.
I wish we had a tiny fraction of the options for electric guitar. For example, an ES335 clone would be cool. I...
Intonation is pretty much unaffected. The only factor is the stiffness of the string. Thin, flexible strings play flat compared to stiff, thick strings. If you replace a plain string with a wound one...
I do have company in acoustic players, but I find the doubled strings essential for electric playing. It is a mystery, to me, that folks will play an eight-string electric, or a five-string, but not...
The extended range of five courses, along with the richer tone and attack of doubled strings, means I can make a full sound in just a trio setting. Here I revisit a favorite Keith Jarrett tune from...
Shipping to the UPS depot would be maximally secure. Customer picks up.
Good luck tracking it down.
Of my five 10-string mandolins, my first is flat, the rest are radiused. But the main thing is keeping the neck slim. Buchanan does not use an adjustable truss rod, so his necks are robust. My Almuse...
From experience I can assert alto clef has tripped a few composers, including Beethoven, in the 9th symphony, and Ravel, in "Pictures".
I remember a Boccherini string quartet in which the cello had to read soprano clef.
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