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Very nice!

Are you familiar with the Melonious Quartet's album of Erik Satie pieces arranged for mandolin quartet? Lovely record.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9shoqvJcnQ

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The chart above is about a year old, but you'll note the very highest paying services only offer about a penny a play. The $.35/play figure suggested in a post above was off by two decimal...

Very handsome. Heiden does beautiful work, and the few I've played have been wonderful instruments.

Actually, there are a number of key breakthroughs in latency issues, and folks using JackTrip technology have been able to get audio latency down to virtually imperceptible levels — under one...

Did someone mention "capo"?

Any comments on his oval-hole two-pointers?

I've used a bunch and settled on the TC Electronic Polytune a few years ago. Works great.

The tuning fork approach is fine if you have trained your ear properly and you play in places quiet...

I have an Epiphone El Capitan acoustic bass guitar that was cheap and does the job. With an amp, it sounds reasonably fat, and it can stand on its own acoustically in a quiet session with a couple...

The Waverlys are my favorite, too.

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I've been using D'Addario strings for 40 years or so, too -- lots and lots of sets in a really busy year of gigging. I have had some bad batches on rare occasions. I typically buy 10 sets at a time,...

For me, it all depends on the circumstances/setting of where I'm playing the instrument. If it's mostly around home or in a small ensemble, I like the way light-gauge strings feel and sound, plus I...

Congratulations!

Just for curiosity, where was the mandolin when it was stolen (home, car, gig)?

The late Al Berard, a Cajun multi-instrumentalist and all-around good guy, played a lot of traditional Louisiana music on mandolin. Never heard him do any Creole or Zydeco music per se, but it...

Lovely!

Pretty amazing teachers and classes at Peghead Nation. There's a fee, but you can take the courses at your own pace.

https://pegheadnation.com/string-school/mandolin-courses/

Interesting. So ... how's the mandolin?

Fun!

Here's a version of "U.S. Blues"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=davUadt0_Qg with a little Celtic twist. The handheld camera is a little bouncy at first, but settles in.

More modal and lonesome than the Delmores' original.Even some mandolin stuff from Mike Campbell playing what loo. Bass player Howie Epstein also played mandolin with the Heartbreakers in this period....

I think the actual title is "Dear Madame Barnum," not "Mrs." Great song from one of my favorite XTC albums. Seems like XTC has remained in the shadows over the years because Andy Partridge stopped...

As mentioned above, Glenn Cronkhite makes the best cases and covers I've ever used. Not cheap, but built to last for a career. Choice of five leathers and eight Corduras, lots of options.
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Yep. Here's a page about Tony Hicks and that guitar.

I remember seeing the Hollies do that show on one TV show where they actually did an instant close-up replay of that riff. It was enough for...

The Hollies were one of many Merseybeat bands who came up at roughly the same time as the Beatles. They were from Manchester, mainly, but as early as '63 they were playing the Cavern Club in...

There's a good photo essay by luthier Frank Ford on his amazing Frets.com site where he covers this in detail:

http://frets.com/FretsPages/Musician/Mandolin/MandoString/mandostring1.html

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Me, too. Very fast and no slippage. Faster to take old strings, off, too, with fewer wraps around the post.

There's this:

https://tunearch.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Francoeur

Band:

Yoland Henry (violon, mandoline, pieds, tambour à mailloches, cuillères, voix)
Robin Servant (accordéons diatoniques,...