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Thanks for keeping this great interview in view, keeping Alison Stephens' memory alive. :mandosmiley:

And as a PSA - I've been having a deuce of a time uploading a photo of Ms Stephens to her...

BTW & FWIW, the builder (and Café member) Keith Cary is playing cello in the video, not his ingenious construction. :cool:

I think a resonator mandolin is a great suggestion. I looked for one for years while in my first jug band (a time period which predated the interweb, with its attendant assistance and ease in...

Spoons have a place, all right. In the kitchen drawer! :mad:

I must say, I never have. I can't even figure how that term is derived. Doesn't make idiomatic sense, nor even grammatical. Curious. :confused:

The String Swing guitar holder uses the term "yoke"...

Yes, I do. Both will make you cry, but an onion is much, much quieter. And tastier.

There are suppliers who will put together custom sets of strings accoring to your wishes. One such, operated by a Café member, https://emando.com/ whose products I have used over the years, (NFI) has...

I did not know that. I saw your mention in the OP, but didn't quite "get it." Seems to me the advantage of double strings is in trilling, which always sounds thin on a single-stringed instrument. To...

Good point about the strings. Do NOT use bronze wound strings! :disbelief: The G and D strings will sound like a sawed-off shotgun! (As opposed to a normal shotgun.)

Though it IS still a...

As you may have surmised from the tone of even these few responses, they are often considered the "red-headed step-child" of the mandolin family - begrudgingly half-welcomed into the fold, generally...

Welcome to the Café! :mandosmiley: Always good to add another voice to the choir, or mandolin to the orchestra. (Look up "mandolin orchestras," if you wonder what that means. Fascinating period in...

Well ... There IS some virtue in avoiding looking down, although it has nothing much to do with playing, in general. In performance situations, as has been noted, it doesn't look good, or it seems to...

Yes, good point - and I think, often overlooked. I find myself listening to myself playing, and how it fits with the other players, all the time. I mean, music is played to be heard, not just played,...

It may not be that big of a deal, depending on the audience. I imagine nursing home audiences have lower expectations than the scene I have to deal with here. Here, if people have whatever issue with...

I'm pretty much the opposite. At home, with no one else to impress nor influence me, ie, interact with, I'll watch what I'm doing all the time. In this context all that matters is accuracy, not...

Based on observations; that's my point. As I said, like taking a survey. The opinion of the survey-taker is irrelevant.

I get the distinct impression that my opinion of this aspect of the...

Did someone say "Wagon Wheel?" Put $20 in the tip jar! :))



From the notes:

We have never done this song. Someone put $20 in the bucket and kept asking for it, for over an hour. So at the...

CarlM - that's hilarious! Is that your doing? If so, hip hip hooray!

The most I've ever been able to do with "Amore" is:

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie -
That's a-messy. ;)
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Right. That is objective. It's like taking a survey. It's not what do you want to hear or play - subjective - it's what do they want to hear, what do they want you to play - objective.

It's not...

Yeah, but ...

The way the question is posed in the OP, it's objective or empirical in nature. Emotional responses are beside the point.

Here's the article by Bill Graham about "The Man With The...

Ya see whatcha did there, cayuga red? You have to copy over the end quote code [/QUOTE], too, or the quote window won't operate. ;)

Congratulations, Zach! Contribution, participation, that's what...

No, no, signore! Ma grazie, mille grazie! People will be more likely to remember the singer than the subject. Secondo me ... ;)

Perhaps if the man who plays the mandolin were to play "Mambo...

I beg your pardon, sir. Top 40? "Maggie May" was a monster hit. It was #1 simultaneously in the US, the UK, Australia and Canada (for six, five, and four weeks, respectively, for the first three), a...

I'm really impressed with that take on "With A Little Help From My Friends." Not the singing, or playing, although that's all fine. It's the cooperation. There are eleven musicians there, at least...