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    Re: Non-mando question - singing

    This thread really hits home. I’ve been attending a jam where one of the ‘requirements’ is that everybody sings, I’ve played in bluegrass jams on and off since the late 70’s and not once have I...
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    Re: Playing standing up is...

    I was up at the Central Oregon Acoustic Music Festival in Florence Oregon in January to play a few tunes with a friend of mine at the Thursday Open Mic/Hootenanny event on Thursday. I happened to...
  3. Re: Tunes to learn and places to pick for a trip to Scotland?

    I should learn more Scottish tunes if I ever return. I did play ‘Flowers of Edinburg’ in the Grass Market street in old town Edinburg. Lots of fun and just a little busking in Inverness. As a...
  4. Re: Tunes to learn and places to pick for a trip to Scotland?

    Having just returned from Scotland, I had a hard time finding any traditional music being played in the pubs, Disclaimer; I was a tourist and didn’t have access to some of the outlying area that...
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    Re: Winter Music Festival Florence, OR

    I’ll be there!! The festival has grown over the last few years thanks to the vision and hard work of the Executive Director. New event this year, Open Stage on Thursday evening. Sign-up and play! ...
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    Re: Mandolin Cafe Milestones

    A few of us replying to this thread have been members and posting for 20 years. I guess that’s a milestone, even though my ‘post per year’ is low?
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    Re: Loving my Flatiron

    MB is a designation for Maple Birdseye and for the trim package as previously mentioned. Flatiron was building ‘book matched’ instruments from the early days. My ‘83’ 2MB has a book matched spruce...
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    Re: Anyone busk with their mandolin?

    I travel with a mandolin (Flatiron 2M) and busk whenever I have some extra time in almost any City and/or town we visit. Mostly for my own pleasure and to say I’ve busked on the streets, in the...
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    Re: "Noodling" at Sessions

    I’ve followed this thread from it’s beginning with some interest. I’ve played in a session in Ireland and participated in a few here in the US. I’ve also personally been chastised for ‘noodling’ at...
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    Re: What is the story behind the "scroll"

    Who knows where we hear stories and if they are fact based or not? I always heard the scrolls were put on other instruments to emulate the scroll on the peg head of a violin? Turn the scroll on...
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    Re: What is that little instrument?

    Most of my questions come when passing through TSA. The case will then get passed back and forth through the scanner. Very rarely do I have to take the instrument out of the case.
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    Re: Screw extraction?

    I took off my tuners once and broke a screw. A friend suggested that I take it to a gunsmith. He got the screw out without damage and I don’t know how.. I figured they were experts in small...
  13. Re: Today in Mandolin History - August 5, 1890, Lawrence, KS Jour

    It’s a lot like when the management of SH Suites asked us to stop jamming outside the hotel at night during Mandofest. Some things never change!
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    Re: Swallow Hill Fiddle Tune Ensemble - Denver

    I’m in. I need something to energize my interest in playing and practicing again. Keep me posted. Dan
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    Re: Guitar flight case in overhead?

    I flew from Phoenix to Denver on a 737 about 5 years ago carrying by brother-in-law’s Larivee in the original hard shell case. Case size 43” long by 19” wide. The staff never questioned the size of...
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    Re: JD Crowe

    I had the opportunity to play Roland’s Randy Wood Gibson at a clinic hosted by the Pickin Parlor in Arvada, CO. Impeccable workmanship, but showed all those years of wear and an unbelievable tone,...
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    Re: Billy in the lowground

    Best video I’ve watched in a while. ‘Billy’ is a great tune to swap the melody back and forth.
  18. Thread: Vintage?

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    Vintage?

    So what constitutes or determines ‘vintage?’ I’m either curious or on a rant. I see instruments listed on a popular auction site or on the ‘List’ marketed as vintage, as late as the 70’s and 80’s? ...
  19. Re: Spotted in Phoenix- a Parrot and early Orville

    MIM is an amazing place to view historical instruments. Martin has its own section. One day is not enough time. I was amazed that a lot of cultures seem to have their own version of a bagpipe?
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    Re: Do You Baby Your Mandolin?

    The mandolins played most have the most wear. Especially the main performance instrument, Distressed naturally!
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    Re: Reasons to avoid practicing

    I used to practice when we gigged. It’s been a few years since we performed, and consequently, I stopped practicing. Interesting how quickly you forget tunes, leads, chord patterns. I’m trying to...
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    Re: Happy Birthday Scott Tichenor

    How can I forget Scott’s birthday every year? But yet remember one of my former co-workers that is also today. Must be that I have a birthday, or several to remember every day this week, including...
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    Re: stand or sit?

    I used to practice all the time sitting, but when it came time to play a gig, I would have trouble bracing/stabilizing the instrument. I got used to practicing standing up to avoid transitioning.
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    Re: Octave mandolin less-expensive choices

    I bought a perfectly serviceable Johnson MA 550 through an auction site at a ridiculous low price at the time. I wanted to try an octave to offset the sound of another mandolin in the group when we...
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    We used to use Audacity to trade tunes back and forth. (Could have been a good COVID practice). They are WAV files and can be added to by the other recipients of the file. After the shared...
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