I ended up hooking up with Nowell Siegel at Living Tree Music up in the San Fernando Valley. He and his wife Annette are lovely and he did a great job on my newly acquired Weber Bitterroot. I'll snap...
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I ended up hooking up with Nowell Siegel at Living Tree Music up in the San Fernando Valley. He and his wife Annette are lovely and he did a great job on my newly acquired Weber Bitterroot. I'll snap...
Man, my instruments get so beat up on the road. Guitars sitting out at a seaside festival all day and then riding in trucks. Usually they get wiped down, sometimes they don't. Salt air is so hard on...
After years of hunting for a good mandolin in the Los Angeles area I gave up and bought from someone on the other side of the country. Worked out great. Seems mandolin is really a regional thing and...
I’m a professional musician and tour a lot. I also drink a fair bit, especially on the road. There’s a sweet spot, for me, of having a few drinks and relaxing and having fun. At some point it goes...
Hey all!
A few years later and figured I'd bump this thread again. I'm still in need of a good local repair person for mandolin setups. I've chased everyone in this thread to no avail and was...
Good on you for doing the right thing.
I have nothing to add other than the difficulty of shopping for mandolins here in Southern California...or getting one worked on. Not sure why we live in a mandolin desert in a town (LA) full of...
Are they going to be totally different instruments than before? Is this basically a new company with an old name?
Ah, thanks everyone, thats helpful. These seem like great options and am glad they're still going!
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I've been trying to find options for a new mando from Weber or Silverangel but cant find anything anywhere. Are they just not currently in stock or are these companies done building?...
Probably just because of my background in classical guitar, but I always warm up with some Bach.
I know this was recorded on a Mandocello, but I was curious what people think about key choices. For example, the original Cello Prelude No. 1 key is G. On this recording he chose play it in the...
Yeah, that’s generally how people refer to what an inversion is. It’s the bass note that matters. The rest of it is how it’s voiced.
In the context of low note challenged instruments like...
In my experience thats not how people use that word, but it's just semantics and nomenclature that largely doesn't matter, haha.
I think in terms of pure theory semantics the inversion only applies to which tone is in the bass. The rest of the voicing isn't really part of whether/how its inverted or not, if that makes sense....
C9 seems a WHOLE lot easier than that, haha.
Unfortunately he is on an extended vacation. Sounded like a few months. I’ve got a tour coming up and am hoping to find someone to sort my mando before I go. Anyone know anyone else? Trying to avoid...
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This is the most recent thread I could find on locating a mandolin repair person in/near Los Angeles. Most of the people I’ve turned up have moved, retired, or died. Nowell at living...
C9/G, haha
A trill is an ornament where you usually play a diatonic note above or below the indicated note. Whether its above or below depends on the era of the music. Chromatic notes can also be used in...
The 'Tristan' chord is a chord Wagner used in Tristan und Isolde that kind of turn classical harmony on its ear, so to speak. If anyone wants to do a mandolin arrangement of a Wagner opera for...
Fair enough! ;-) I suppose my random choice of example was a poor one, haha.
Same collection of notes, of course, but voicing and context may determine which spelling makes the intention clearer(e.g if its a ii chord in a ii-V). I understand many people prefer to think of it...
Not to quibble, especially as a newcomer here, but the letter after the / indicates the bass note, not the root. So if a C chord in 'root' position is C E G a C/E chord is E C G (or similar 1st...
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I think this is my first post on here, but just thought I’d share. I have a Kentucky 150 that I left in my car in the summer in LA for maybe a day or two. The glue holding the two pieces...