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Mike turned 70 last year (there was a thread here wishing him happy bday) and I am sure he has for a long time had plenty of commissions. I think he (or someone) posted on Facebook about just...

To the OP's question, in a word, no.

Seems like an unnecessary item to me. All these years of people playing perfectly well without them. Unles you play regularly with bare arms and don;t like the feel of the sid of the mandolin but...

Having just turned 77 New Year's Eve, I find this thread's title ominous

Sessions.Org is a great site for every variation of just about any Celtic, or related tune. I visit there often. You can get standard notation or abc. format. BUT, I just discovered that they have...

I personally don't like how they look, and I really don't like the feel. I found it to be very uncomfortable when playing for extended periods of time (longer than about 10 minutes). That said, the...

Drop the 3rd trimester muffintop and you can drop the tone guard!

I had one and could hear no difference in sound as I don't hold a mandolin close to my belly ! As far as comfort I prefer not using one but everyone is different and only you can decide that !

Northern Michigan ( U P ) in October is more likely to have snow.

This is a great video- George describes his personal Loar L5, and talks about what makes it special to him


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoM1EC7I3w0

I don't have any pictures yet, though it...

A Doyle Lawson Gibson is a great mandolin, but it’s not particularly valuable or historically significant like a Loar (and I agree, the DL Gibsons look kinda dated) ...so... why not make it what you...

Maybe I’ll just spray paint it black.




Ok, I’m obviously not going to do that :) It was my dad’s, but his lifelong mandolin was a Sparks F-5 that I also have. He bought the DL about 5 years...

Who left you the Gibson? For me playing musician something that was left to me by a loved one would far outweigh my likes of the aesthetics of the instrument. I did not inherit my Heiden but it is...

And a very happy ending:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-07-22/the-mystery-of-a-stolen-rare-cello-has-a-surprise-ending

Swallow Tail reel, on the double octave octave, on the front porch, on a Sunday morning

Found some time to record this today!

https://youtu.be/D3nPKMkRHOY

I acquired my Waterloo sunburst about a year ago. I have a herd of mandolins and some were pricey. The Waterloo is my only flat top and the least expensive of the bunch. That being said, it has...

Don't expect Collings to lower their prices. I have no idea why they waited so long to eliminate the dealer pricing discounts. In fact, don't expect anything to get cheaper. Small businesses run...

If it sounds good, it is good. Doesn't matter what the bling is.

Refreshing to here someone bought an instrument irregardless of the looks, just for the sound.

Being North of town is because My children and grandchildren are near Cincinnati so it makes more sense for me to be there to go visit on weekends and visa versus. Also, rent is a lot less there...

I've gotten some comments that chord melody isn't really applicable to non-Jazz tunes. So, I thought I'd try exactly that. Here's my chord melody arrangement of Arkansas Traveler. I hope you enjoy...

I'm still working on improving speed and dexterity... So on new years, I thought I'd start learning flight of the bumblebee... Its a great time for speed and dexterity. Anyways, the link is below.
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I use nothing but J74’s

Y'all know how I feel about the T'Gard......it's not the theory I object to, it is the execution. Let's see take a $10K mandolin and put a $75 bracket on it.....and EVERYBODY somehow thinks this is...

i have had health problems on and off for several years. i felt awfull much of today, but when i got home i pulled out four favourite mandolins and played them all back and forth, and it made my...