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The Western Town was destroyed, but the festival will be held at Paramount at the usual time (May 19).

http://www.topangabanjofiddle.org/meet_the_bands_2019.html

The main stage area was not...

Early Collings were rather annoying in that respect, thin and sharp V necks. I am a big Collings fan, but I sold several because of the neck shape, serial numbers were low hundreds, one in the 90s....

Collings makes great instruments and puts abysmal tuners on them. I replaced the tuners on two of them (MT and MT2). Looks like you need to buy an MF5 Deluxe to get decent tuners.

I would play a mandola, which will work perfectly for the setting you describe (unaccompanied solo instrumentals) and satisfies the "mandolin" criterion. The 5th down solves the plinkiness and...

Sweet recording, sounds great. Really well done.

I have a Rigel myself, a nice sounding A+, but rather quiet. Main mandolin is a custom Collings F, so no flat tops here. For pub sessions, I take...

Very nice videos. Great sound and picture quality, too, thanks for putting good stuff like that on youtube. Nice juxtaposition of American style/instrumentation, even starts that sound very...

These rattles are usually caused by minuscule amounts of slots getting too low. Hardly ever worth cutting a new nut if it is otherwise in good shape. What I have done many times, always very...

No agreement that it is very well done and sounds very smooth and professional. The concertina gives it a slightly different texture, but I can understand that some are turned off by the background...

Great performance, outstanding vocals. Even though genre-hopping tributes tend to be somewhat of a gimmick (dog walking on two legs), those guys are so good that whatever they play stands on its...

Great venue, lots of potential, but an abysmal format. A tedious interview that took most of the time and less than a short CD worth of live music, leaving me (and probably most of the audience) not...

Mandolins are not necessarily that quiet, just project forward, so others may already hear the mandolinist more than they want to. A beginner showing up with a resonator? About as obnoxious as a...

We have a Collings MT 0 that is very popular in our house (preferred over a number of more expensive instrument). An unusual voice, compared to any f-hole Collings (I have an F Deluxe, previously had...

In Dublin, Cobblestone has strong ITM session every night. Owner plays himself until he needs to take care of the bar. We went there Monday and Tuesday this week, my son has a fiddle with him and...

In fact, with the mandolin as packed, I am 9 inches narrower than a BMW 1200 or HD Road King without anything.

No, there is absolutely no problem with that and I do lane sharing. Do you think English traffic jams are worse than Los Angeles?

Remember, as I said in my post, the mandolin in the back is...

In our pub session, it (or other slides/single jigs) end up being played a bit snappier, too, but I really like this particular tune at a very relaxed pace, makes it a really sweet tune.

My National going to a regular session tonight. I also have a gig back with backpack strap, would be easier, but then just for that very, very unlikely situation that might occur, I'd rather not have...

My son came home from college yesterday (and really just for a day, he's already off to Europe) and we played a few tunes. Was a nice thing to do sitting out in the backyard. He mainly plays fiddle...

I have a Heritage Eagle and it may be the most played guitar in the house (and there are many), so it suits us well. A fine utilitarian instrument, not particularly loved, but used. Like many...

Actually, Guido Lamell, the LA Phil member who organized the mando quartet, was looking for volume. Think about how many threads there are on the cafe how people want a loud instrument for small...

As impressive as the techniques displayed are in those videos (or similar fiddle videos), Orange Blossom Special is more like a novelty number than a tune. So I don't find anything worth listening to...

Impossible to know what might have been done in the past. I bought the instrument from Elderly more than a decade ago, the only known repair or work at the instrument was at the headstock then. Even...

Just picked up the mandolin with a new neck, plays and looks great. Craig will post pics of the repair soon.

Let's say $500-900 mandolins at least by list price (my camping mandolin is the exception, $200 is about right).

Reframes the idea of what constitutes a "professional mandolin", doesn't it?