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The modern logo does indeed come in about 1947, first in silkscreen, then changing to a decal in 1954.

Factory order numbers from the late '40's are inconsistent and not much info is available on...

Maybe there's more to your technique than you're letting on...

Wait, now I'm confused. I thought DW Cooper was the stage name for DW Washburn?

https://youtu.be/4cRCv06YNhM

It *is* confusing. Hopefully this might clarify just a bit.

US mandolin - UK mandolin. GDAE. Also sometimes soprano mandolin. Scale length around 14"

US mandola - UK alto mandola. CGDA. Scale...

Hi Sherry. Just a few thoughts regarding chords. I played guitar (and sang) in a bluegrass groups / jams before playing mandolin about 20 some years ago. I still play guitar but not as my main...

Perhaps just another conspiracy by anti-Shmergel subversives (Gibson, Weber, Collings, Eastman et. al.) to cover up the existence of this nonpareil gem of mandolins?

No, I think not. Access to...

Thanks to the Post Office, Christmas continues to be a rolling affair in our household, as items ordered long ago in anticipation continue to slowly arrive. Yesterday, one such gift showed up for me...

A Kora with not nearly the usual number of strings?

There may be a prize for knowing what this is. No prize for buying it at the price being asked.
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I tuned and played guitar in fifths for years. Here's one topic.

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/50620-Converting-6-string-to-full-fifth-tuning-my-experiment

Due to physics, there's...

Yes you can. I tuned my old 6 string F-C-G-D-A-E. It is approximately the same scale as my two mandocello's, one of which is a 10 stringer (C-G-D-A-E). I just bought individual guitar strings the...

Guitars tuned in 4ths and the one 3rd give you a different chord voicing (spacing of notes within the chord) than an instrument tuned in 5ths. It's not necessarily a good or bad difference, but it...

https://youtu.be/iHdCH5gerNo

3 weeks ago?!
Are you guys saying there’s only been one Sierra Hull vid in the last 3 weeks?

What is wrong in this world! :))

Thanks JL, that discussion explains my word of caution in excellent detail! :)

It's probably worth pointing out though that ,near me, and I suspect more generally in Irish trad, good "backers"...

I believe it is called “Drinking Three Cups of Espresso and Playing Lots of Notes Very Quickly.” :)

At first it almost sounded like a choro tune. Then it seemed to veer off into some Dawg music...

Hi Derp,
Great advice from others on this thread. I play a lot of backing for Irish music on the guitar. Where I live there are a bunch of good Irish tune players (usually 2nd or 3rd generation),...

This is a solo arrangement of Stephen Stills, "For What It's Worth," here played on octave mandolin. It is the first movement of a three movement suite entitled "Protest Songs". The video was made...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQgOSROwBNo :) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDPPEsyA9wo/

Just a bit of musical nerd fun for time of year...

"Good Shah Wenceslas" (Good King Wenceslas, but it's in Persian mode Avaz-e Esfahan)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coEtkG3qMv8

Hint: It's a lot easier if you put a capo on the second fret.
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I had a Mandolin Cafe sticker on a couple of my hard cases , along with several festival and luthier stickers, but pretty much always use TGI Extreme (sorry for plug) gig bags now.

I guess a...

I would hate for one of my mandolins to spring a leak and me without a patch. I probably ought to have several on hand "just in case."

OK thanks. That is why I tend to view the "free use" offers with much suspicion. I have never seen a white face A so I found the thread interesting, and would have liked to see the pictures.

to Ludwig van Beethoven


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxCLflXk0eg