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When you say "irish style of songwriting" are you talking about songs with words or are you talking about tunes? - Echoing the recommendation above, Marla Fibish would be able to help you with both...

Depends on what genre of music you play on the mandolin as well - not all of us play Bluegrass, so a "must know" tune in that world wouldn't be the same for folks who play irish trad music (like...

What a gorgeous mandolin, Mike is the salt of the earth!

The Gypsy Princess is one of my favourite tunes - lovely playing all round! The cello sits so nicely in the tune. We have a wonderful young trad cello player here in Ireland, Sharon Howley, an...

I only have one mandolin (and one guitar, and one tenor banjo) because the herd needed to be thinned over the years either due to financial need or more recently, a transatlantic move home - the...

Nice one Isaac, lovely playing!

When I had my MT-O I really liked Curt Mangan Bluegrass mediums on it.

Yeah, I'm lucky that I live rurally and my other half has good ear plugs!

I'm using a Word Doc "notebook" template - and the tabs for each section are:

- A list of tunes I'm re-learning (I have...

Just wanted to add that I've frequently encountered folks who make remarks like "Huh, I'm too busy actually playing to keep a practice journal...." when they hear I keep one, the implication being...

My Girouard lives in a Price case, and in the neck pocket you'll find:

- one of those silk cleaning cloths that Ted used to sell over on the JazzMando site
- TC Electronics Polytune tuner
-...

Yes, the Dunlop delrin picks are definitely great bang for the buck. I used to use them before I got my Blue Chip picks - they sound good when you play with the shoulder end of them as well, for...

You can purchase the Foinn Seisiún recordings for a version:



or it appears on Chieftains 8 by the Chieftains:



Aoife Granville does a version on her "Sáimhín Só" album:

Happy New Year to all here - hoping 2021 is an improvement on 2020!

When the pandemic started I got alert emails from both UPS and FedEx stating that in the interests of "contactless delivery" parcels would be left without the requirement for a signature, whether the...

I don't think there is any finish I dislike on a mandolin except for a poorly done burst (like those black into yellow kind of bursts that show up on some super cheap mandolins for example). I've had...

Two beautiful mandolins - what a great pair to have at your disposal!

Or it could be a new business enterprise! Kinda like the folks who rent out their herd of goats to clear weeds and overgrowth - someone could accumulate and then rent out their posse of geckos to...

I got a Calton for my tenor banjo last year and didn't experience any smell with it thankfully, but did have a case that came with my Collings MT-O back in the day that absolutely reeked of glue - it...

When I was teaching for a living I would reinforce my self with an hour of playing time if I graded X amount of assignments etc., nice way to clear the head and not feel guilty about picking up my...

Looking forward to following the progress of this!

I started one when I picked the mandolin back up again in 2015 after a 4 year hiatus. I use it to track old tunes I'm re-learning and new ones, also to keep a list of sets of tunes (I play irish trad...

Lovely stuff, A Charlie Brown Christmas is my favourite Christmas album!

Here's Fergal Scahill playing "The Long Lane' on the fiddle - I've a long lane that leads up to my house in Mayo, I need to learn this one!

I had one of these Access Stage 3 rectangular cases that fit old Gibson A's really well. Well made nice case and not too heavy, though rectangular cases aren't everyone's cup of tea:
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Oops, my bad, thanks for the heads up!