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    Re: Not a Ukulele!

    I've heard the same question about a full-size mountain dulcimer. <mundanes>
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    Re: Sheet Music on a Tablet

    I recently got a Kindle primarily for books (less weight to tote, added benefit of not lugging my laptop for internet connections when I travel. And no, my phone "hain' gone tru eleben' grade."). ...
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    Re: Can you talk me off the MAS ledge?

    Nah, I couldn't talk you off, at best I'd show you a different, equally dangerous, portion of the cliff. Mountain dulcimers aren't as loud, necessarily as mando's; maybe you couldn't buy a pickup*...
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    Re: One of my dreams is realized!

    Wow. Good on you! Ok, answering your original question - and given some of these are a bit crossover songs (& in no particular order). Some fast, some slow, some that can be played either way......
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    Re: finger tip~tips?

    Hand quilters would use turpentine instead of the rubbin alcohol. There was an actual product I remember hearing about umpteen years ago for helping build that quilter's callous, but I'll be darned...
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    Re: Uses For Old Mandolin Strings

    I had an ex that would use the old strings in scale modeling, specifically tanks & planes. (I learned more about WWII armament than any woman with virtually no interest in warfare would ever need to...
  7. Re: Has your playing ever improved with less practice?

    Dad would train horses, and he'd say he would "soak" 'em every so often. Instead of daily schooling in whatever they were working on, he'd finish a lesson, and put 'em in the stall for the night,...
  8. Re: Strings Move Apart When I Fret Up The Neck. Why?

    Actually I have the same issue with my dulcimer(s). Usually it's that the two melody strings will want to crowd together, rather than separate a great deal. Since it happens only occasionally, and...
  9. Poll: Re: Poll for Song A Week Social Group Week #177

    Sorry - these are Saddle the Pony - hard to find one that I didn't find the accordion overpowering...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wQECR6jGNI&feature=related

    Ok, except for this one - Mando...
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    Re: Celtic Punk Recommendations

    Killigans. A prior mandolinist wore a mohawk & played his mandolin off the right hip. At least one if not two of the band members are local school teachers. ...
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    Re: Rolling Stones on Mandolin?

    umm.... "we kick 'em to the curb cuz they look like Jagger"????
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    Re: New-er Country Songs for Mandolin?

    Band Perry also has a mandolinist - it certainly caught my eye the bit in If I Die Young - altho much of the mando range they seem to do with the fiddle.
  13. Re: Why do you think Bluegrass is spreading worldwide?

    Round-Up herbicide resistance. :whistling:
  14. Re: Want to learn a 2nd instrument...input appreciated.

    I'm biased, as it was my first instrument - I'm voting with lap/mountain dulcimer. Also diatonic, altho there are luthiers who'll make chromatic frets if you ask. Pretty simple to play, and if you...
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    Re: Slide Mandolin?

    Related, Chipper Thompson does some slide work on his bouzouki - the one that comes to mind is Jesse James that he did with Mason Brown on their Am I Born to Die? CD.
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    Re: I think this cartoon says it all..

    Oddball me, I like a well-played banjo, pipes, or bodhran. Now the squawking of beginners on clarinet or sax, or the dissonance of a beginning fiddle player.... When my brother would practise on the...
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    Re: A good, low-cost travel mandolin?

    Probably depends on your definition of "low-cost", and how good you want it. My Sweet Pea will fit in it's gig bag in my full-size suitcase - so does my half-size lap dulcimer. Works real well when...
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    Re: Favorite Folk Song?

    Well, folk-y - I'd have to say Paradise/Muhlenberg County, altho Long Black Veil comes in close - but if you want age-ed folk, Katy Cruel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOfIlutUr9c
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    Re: What makes the mandolin so special?

    Why mandolin? cuz it's not a guitar. ("everybody" has a guitar.) I can get my hand around the neck to fret, I can get my arm around the body to strum. I can play whatever genre music I want with...
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    Re: Murder ballads

    couple I found that were kinda chilling,

    Cruel Brother - robber comes upon three sisters, will you marry me or die by my pen knife? he kills the first two, third one says you wouldn' do that if...
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    Re: Murder ballads

    http://www.whoozon1st.com/web-snippets/preston-5-18-12.mp3

    Local version done of Preston Miller
  22. Re: repair old stradolin or just buy a new mando?

    I was in the luthier repair shop, dropped off my Strad for some intonation issues, hairline separation, plus a 2 point GOK for tailpiece reset & bridge & neck work. I'm listening to the quotes and...
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    Re: A question for the performing musicians

    This is good, in a discussion format - helps to define the boundaries of what's good manners - depending on the scenario. And it helped define just what those scenarios are. I was a rank novice...
  24. Poll: Re: Poll for Song a Week Social Group Week #165

    So far I've been able to find a sound-byte of everything but Come by the Hillside. Could somebody point me towards one, please? Thanks!
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    Re: Scottish tunes for mandolin

    The Jig of Slurs/Atholl Highlanders set looks to be a fun bit for exercising/strengthening the 3rd & 4th fingers.
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