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If I could read it an octave higher, I wouldn't need an arrangement. :whistling:

I don't know nothin' 'bout (birthin' no babies) fixed bridge instruments. So I don't know how to problem solve this problem: Tenor Guitar's C string, when tuned to C and then begin fretting up the...

Anybody know where to find them?

I'm sorry, what's "PHN"?

Killing myself (on CGDA tuned tenor) over that 4 2 2 4 form and its permutations. [Whining] Isn't there something else in 1st or second position? [More whining] Its too haaaaard!

A while back I mentioned that I found a particular visual presentation of complex theory beyond my comprehension. I also mentioned that I am a sucker for excellent graphic presentations of complex...

It can also be your ear. Personally, I have trouble with the treble "e" on mandolin. No problem on the note in a lower register. But it just grates on me on the mando. It's screechy, not tinny. ...

Gorgeous! Gorgeous! Gorgeous! And that sassafras mando sounds terrific.

I didn't exactly graft an OM neck on a tenor uke body, but I did change the tenor uke body to accomodate the additional stresses and the additional strings. The problem didn't have anything to do...

That's my strategy too, until I'm forced to do something else. Maybe the only reason I got to it was that right behind it is an acoustic bass guitar that I want to finish, so that I can build a...

Last night I decided to give up on my reconstruction of a guitar-body tenor uke/octave mando/mandola that I've been working on for years. I owe a great debt of gratitude to many of you--too many to...

Wait--Did you mean LEARNING MULTIPLES at once or PLAYING multiples at once (as in one man band) ?

I tried to tune my 5 string banjo to GDAE and CGDA. Didn't work. I'm not that great with moving from to instrument or tuning to tuning, so maybe it just didn't work for me.

But I think there...

YES! My point. It's descriptive not prescriptive, and certainly not generative.

Catmandu: unusually, I wasn't talking out of my hat. The scientific field of study is called"semiotics." You can't talk about language without it. To do so would be like talking about "bodily...

Does anyone know of a chart that shows pick-picking ("flat picking") patterns and or finger-picking patterns? This has become my next hurdle in my struggle for mere competence. Videos don't help...

If you're going to do this-- and unless you're a prodigy with stringed instruments I'd advise not-- then choose instruments all tuned in 4ths (guitar and bass guitar) or all tuned in 5ths (mandolin...

There's an FAA reg that universally allows all instruments that will fit in the overhead to be carried there. Search the forums; it's cited somewhere. It's also universally true that airlines think...

Hey, listen, I do compliance work for businesses, and even though I have decades of experience as a regulator, my compliance clients almost ALWAYS know more about the law than I do. And they're also...

I had this problem for a while. It was so bad that I found a physical therapist in Atlanta who had experience in dealing with--get this--stringed instrument musicians. It seems that he'd done PT...

DaveGinNJ: It's true that the rise of Amazon (and Walmart, and Sams, and Costco) have coincided with the demise of small business. But the reason Amazon, Walmart, Sams, Costco et al are rising...

To quote Sara Palin: "How's that workin' out for ya?" Wouldn't'a thought they'd be interchangeable applied to either ... uh ... instrument.

Sorry, not true. There's no symbol involved, other than the sense of "signifiers" (grossly "words") "symbolizing" "signifieds (grossly, "things" and ideas). Semiotically, there's no difference...

Thanks, Marty. Just what I needed, when I needed it. I was starting to fit the bridge today.

I want to defend the Deering Goodtime. I bought mine something like 20 years ago. Rock solid. Simple, well made, versatile and sturdy. I have never had any problem with it through all my...