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    Re: Strap for bowl back

    Dance with the watermelon…easier and more fun
  2. Thread: Arthritis

    by Foster Reed
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    Re: Arthritis

    Acupuncture opened the window for me to get out of chronic arthritis. Western medicine was pointing toward steroids and other medications but it was acupuncture that actually got it going. I asked...
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    Re: Who makes a wound A string?

    Lenzner Consort Fisoma bronze
  4. Re: How often should my mandolin need to be tuned?

    Tomorrow, always.
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    Re: strap for bowl back mandolin ?

    Try to not worry about it and it will come to you, without a strap, sitting or standing, after a while. Imagine that you are dancing with a watermelon. Imagine that the great players of yore did not...
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    Re: Fisoma strings

    In this discussion the fact that the A strings are wound should be included…they have a different character, a rounder, deeper sound. I find that the strings last a long time, so that even though...
  7. Re: Best strings for a Lyon & Healy type C mandolin

    What I get are the Fisoma 80/20 Bronze Lenzner Consort, from
    hendrikvandenbroek@hetnet.nl
    I buy three sets at a time. Good travels !
  8. Re: Best strings for a Lyon & Healy type C mandolin

    Hello. I have been using the Lenzner Consort strings on my L&H Pro A which Brian Dean rehabbed, at his suggestion, and the wound A has unique quality I like a lot...it offers depth of tone that the...
  9. Re: Restoring a 1930's National resophonic mando

    Try Izzy at Fiam Guitars in Milton NY (between Newburg and New Palz) - they have restored National and Dobro guitars and recently reset the neck and did a great job on my National Mandolin which...
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    Re: String confusion for L&H model A

    When Brian Dean set up my L&H A, and my 1883 Calace, he specified Lenzner Consort strings, and I haven’t looked back.
    I change them when the A gets unwound.
    He also mentioned that changing string...
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    Re: Speranze Perdute

    Mel Bay 2011- Northern Italian and Torino Region Folk Songs, performances by Carlo Alonzo and Clara Ponzoni...sheet music and cd. Speranza Perdute, p. 42, track 8.
    A great resource for this and...
  12. Re: Lyon & Healy Style A #1674 1925 - looking for info

    Hi TIm,
    I sent you a link. I haven’t done the complete tour through these kinds of strings, and each instrument responds uniquely anyway. I have played the Calace, the Lenzner, and the Thommastiks,...
  13. Re: Lyon & Healy Style A #1674 1925 - looking for info

    I have # 1227, which I bought at Satterlee and Chapin in the Tenderloin in SF in the 80’s. After not playing at all for thirty years I got back to it a few years ago, and now play for a few hours a...
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