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I'm the gentleman who gives out the free ebook on mandolin setup. I don't see any emails from January 15? Please email me at rob.meldrum@gmail.com and put Mandolin Setup in the subject line.

I'll...

Please email me at rob.meldrum@gmail.com and put Mandolin Set Up in the subject line. I will send you my free ebook that will show you what you need to do. And, yes, making nut slot files out of...

Hi everyone,

The free set up book is still free. :-)

Just email me at rob.meldrum@gmail.com and put Mandolin Set Up in the subject line.

Rob

I'm pretty sure no instrument builder, ever, said their first instrument was as good as their subsequent instruments. But I just searched for prices on canary wood and it doesn't look like it's rare...

OK, I agree that this sounds like a tailpiece issue. I had this situation once. The tailpiece itself was not making a firm connection to some strings and would cause a rattle. I removed the...

So sad to learn this. Praying for Kip and his family tonight.

If the A strings are in tune when played open, and are sharp as soon as they are fretted, the initial problem is with the nut slots. The slots should be cut so that they point downwards toward the...

Beatles as contemporary... Following up on Allen Hopkins' note...

The Big Band era was reasonably close in time to the Beatles era, but the instrumentation was wildly different. Two guitars, a...

Hope I'm not too late to the party. Grab your nut slot files and cut the A string slots just the next bit wider. It "sounds" like the slots were cut for a lighter gauge string than you have on. ...

A few others have suggested starting with a standard sized guitar if your intention is to play in DADGAD. I concur. The shorter neck length can make the lower-tuned strings buzz. I play a few...

Thank you for this. Great tune, fantastic performance. They did a nice version of Harvest Moon a couple of years ago. Andrew’s mandolin playing is superb and I love her voice.

You should call D’Addario. A few years ago I had a problem with a set of strings. They quickly sent replacements. The guy I spoke with told me they were having problems with counterfeit strings.

I'm not adding this to the free e-book, but here's how I cleaned up a few buzzing frets on my mandolin. The aluminum sanding block, along with a crowning file, was under $20.
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A great player will sound better on an $800 mandolin than an OK player on an $8,000 mandolin. On the other hand, if spending $8,000 on a mandolin won't break your budget, go for it. When Wayne...

For those of you hearing about this for the first time: just email rob.meldrum@gmail.com and put Mandolin Setup in the subject line. I'll send you the ebook for free.

Now go make some music!
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Well, here's an early attempt, replete with missed notes! I'm looking forward to improving... :-)

Rob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENBwrkFOdxQ

For those of you that jumped to the end of this thread, I am still giving away the ebook. It's my small way of giving back to the music world that has brought me so much pleasure. :-)

Over the...

Hi Simon, in July I set myself a challenge to learn a new song a day (guitar and singing) and post it on FaceBook. Friends suggested tunes and I learned a lot of songs I hadn’t even heard before. ...

I sat down this morning with a cup of coffee and realized that I am wasting my retirement - and COVID isolation - reading and replying to Twitter and Facebook. Hours per day, lost. So I am stopping...

I'll weigh in. I think "musicality" is largely talent and cannot be taught as such. I think it is like learning a language. There is a time in one's (early) life where one learns a language and...

Lovely. Just lovely. Wish I could have been sitting in that room with a glass of wine....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp4m_aBV_Zc

Hmmm. Try this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp4m_aBV_Zc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp4m_aBV_Zc

I've never posted here before. I wrote and recorded this a couple of days ago and a friend suggested making a video. So, here it is.

In these difficult times, I hope it brings a smile. Please...

I think this should have been posted in the Songs and Compositions Forum... apologies! Please feel free to delete this or move it... I don't know how. :mandosmiley:

Hey, everyone,

I wrote...