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    Re: My Loar LM-600 VS Story.. of disaster

    It's got to be irritating for local shops to do service on instruments purchased online. I made that mistake a couple of times. When I made the plunge of my F9, I bought local. Whenever I need...
  2. Re: What is the best mandolin somebody handed you to play

    Dawg let me play his Giacomel J5 during the 2007 Symposium. Played like butter, but it was a tad noisy in the room to hear what it sounded like with me playing...
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    Re: Mike Compton performance - should I go?

    Oh hell yes!
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    Re: Dream Mandolin?

    Dang, this topic has triggered a severe relapse into MAS. Now there's Ricky Skaggs DMM in the classfied for 12-5. And the carmel Dave Harvey DMM is still there for 15. Something's gotta give....
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    Re: Dream Mandolin?

    There's a Gibson DMM in the classifieds that has me hot under the collar. Signed by David Harvey, reportedly his personal instrument. Humm, my daughter can pay her own tuition...
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    Re: Gibson Sam Bush strings

    I bought a box of them a few years ago, and didn't like them. I used them up. It helped me remember to change strings every month!

    Now I'm back with D'addarios.
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    Re: How many use J74's?

    I've tried J74's & 75's, and both sizes in exp. Finally settled on the J74's and change them often. I buy them for under 4 bucks mailorder.
  8. Re: Recommmend me some mandolin-heavy bluegrass.

    Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. He plays alot of Monroe stuff, but recorded on modern recording equipment so you can really hear what's going on. Hearing the bottom end on 40's era songs and...
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    Re: why are gibsons so much

    I can relate to what Dan is saying. By minding my manners and sticking out my hand at the right moment, I've gotten to play a Dude, a couple of Loars, a Rigel G110, a Stanley Miller, and a Giacomel...
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    Re: What made you start playing mandolin?

    I'd never played a stringed instrument, but fancy myself as being a singer. I headed out to the local guitar shop to buy a ukulele, just to mess around a bit. There were the mandolins, hanging on...
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    Re: Got 'r done, first build

    Go Doug!!!
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    Re: Singing...with or without an accent?

    I had a singing class with Kathy Kallack and her advice was not to use an accent you didn't come by naturally. Otherwise, you're just hee-haw.

    Personally, I speak with a North Carolina drawl, but...
  13. Re: loar: golden age LM 500 v.s handcarved LM 600

    2 weeks ago, I got an LM 500 to use as a backup while my Gibson is in the shop. I was so impressed that I put James tailpiece on it and upgraded the tuners with some Grovers I already had. It...
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    Re: How old were you when you started mandolin?

    51, in 2005. First instrument of any kind, except for a recorder-like song flute in elementary school.
  15. Thread: Jacqueline

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    Re: Jacqueline

    David plays it in C. I-IV-V, CF&G with the changes right where you'd think they'd be.

    Jacqueline by David Gans

    If just one dream could come true I know what that dream would be
    Last night I...
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    Re: Pimp My Mando

    I pimped out my F9. I put on some Waverly Tuners, and a James Tailpiece, a Jim Hyatt pickguard, a Doug Edwards armrest, and a Tonegard.

    And it still sounds great...

    When I have her refretted,...
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    Re: How to hold a bowlback?

    I had a classical teacher who used a rubber mat in her lap to keep her fancy bowl from sliding away. The kind of mat like you'd use to line shelf.

    Very cool post of Caterina. Marshall's got her...
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    Re: "ringing" E or A?

    I had a ringing E string, kinda of like a sitar ringing, which my teacher correctly identified as a problem with the slot on the bridge. He said if he was in a remote location he would just widen...
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    Re: Pick direction

    I had a classical teacher who only picked up on 8th notes, and had a hard time believing that bluegrass players usually just alternate down-up.

    If you call the rhythm 2/4, then you've got lots of...
  20. Re: Real work is too risky for a mandolin player!

    Wear gloves when doing physical work. Remember, Bill Monroe did a bit of ranching.
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    Re: D'Addario J74's vs Sam Bush Monels.

    I've used them, but didn't hear much difference in tone. The notes, IMO, did not sustain as long as with the D'addarios. I use EXP 75's these days.
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    Re: Newbie mistakes

    One of my teachers likes to "drag" the ring and pinky fingers across the pick guard/finger rest. Says he learned it from Frank Wakefield. He's got me doing it. I even put a finger rest on my F9 to...
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    Re: What's your new fiddle tune?

    Paddy on the Turnpike
    Done Gone
    Billy in the Lowground
    Monroe's Hornpipe
    Kentucky Mandolin
  24. Sticky: Re: Invitation for users to use their real name

    Sounds good. Change freeform to Mike Crater
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    Seems kinda high. Does it include meals and...

    Seems kinda high. Does it include meals and lodging, and who are the instructors? That could make the difference.
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