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The main element for doing a chop is finger length. Every mando player I've ever seen playing a closed G chop or an F chord has long fingers, and is blissfully unaware of the advantage provided by...

Nothing wrong with evolution of bluegrass INTO subcategories like newgrass. What seems wrong is the current reverse-evolution trend by country music producers who take bad country songs sung by...

Back to Dish Satellite Network - the week's schedule for RFD-TV mando is here:
http://www.rfdtv.com/schedule.asp

Mandolins and other acoustic bluegrass instruments are guaranteed on Reno's Old...

Never knew there was bluegrass uke - check out this version of Blackberry blossom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQpS_tNiu6I

Yes but enhanced; the original item was only the wick, a tube of cardboard rolled around some oil soaked cotton used for hiding blemishes on wood furniture. We added the wood handle to keep the oil...

Warms the heart to see people discussing something I helped bring to market and then watched it tank. For years a friend of mine and I had been using an obscure furniture restore-stick to clean our...

On the seventh day, He jammed.

Not a big story but I do have a photo or two I took of Sam at Berryville in 1966 or 67 (he was 14 or 15) standing by himself in a clearing quietly practicing fiddle with no one else around.

And...

For those of us who play left handed (7 to 10 percent) we're always at the end of the queue for this kind of question. Namely, which top builders will toss us a few crumbs and provide a quality unit...

20 years ago in Phoenix someone broke in and took my rare Gibson banjo. It turned up in Albuquerque a month later. Someone bought it at a flea market without incident, but when the buyer decided to...

This question is frequently asked - and if you watch the good players, most have those long flexible spider fingers which make chops easy, and then...there's the rest of us.
My finger measurements...

You could try before you buy. Netflix has a couple of DVD's on this subject, rent them and see how you like them.

Then you can escalate to the commitment of paying $30 to $60 or more for DVD's...

Your post was #21. In re-reading posts #2 through #20 carefully several times, there is not one single word from anyone stooping to tear somebody up or down. The posters merely stated the fact that...

If you were involved in the mando universe at that time, then of course it wasn't obscure. I think the 'average' American's perception of what mandolin music sounded like back then was in fact the...

This is from an e-mail I received from a teacher named Jeff Schnuck last November. I never followed up due to an arm injury at the end of November, but will be doing so if and when it ever heals up....

I also thank all who posted their situation. (I apologize if I seemed to be hijacking the thread, that wasn't my intention.) Your encouragement led to making an appointment with my orthopedic...

Yes it does take longer as we age, and I hate that age discrimination! I've spent many hours with "top docs" since December trying to put a stop to my 24/7 shoulder socket pain and its related...

Pete I've had multiple EMG's but they didn't show anything unusual - go figure. I was told by the pain specialist that these nerve disasters can heal but it can take a year (not the 2 weeks noted by...

Timely subject! For eight months I have been battling severe pain almost every day following a 6 foot fall onto concrete last year, landing on my shoulder and funny bone. My fun-filled days are...

How about "Ssari" ?

- honoring Butch's memory by using the 2 s's

- Bonus: the dog would come running if you make a mistake while playing - oops, Ssari! Ssari!

- if anyone said 'what a...

He was a multi-instrumentalist - including mandolin I believe - and helped keep acoustic music thriving. I shared the stage with him at a festival long ago, was a good guy.
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This is late but continues my post above. On 8/8 - on the RFD Channel (Dish 231)- Marty Stuart had the Del McCoury band on the show. Marty did his usual short solo, and he & Ronnie McCoury also did...

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- Topics started for or end up being used to discuss religion, politics or sex as well as other hot button issues meant to create discord are...

Dish HD network has several stations which feature mandolin playing. Saturday nights on the RFD Channel #231 you can can catch the Marty Stuart Show which is mostly country, but he'll tear off a few...

Well, the replies split up in two directions here because the description changed to a generic "big fingers" which addresses both width and length. I have griped about the latter one before. Most of...