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Ranger - just curious - one or both hands? All fingertips or just some (if so, which ones)?

The Reno/Scruggs connections have always intrigued me. I've always wondered about those early years when Earl was starting to work with bands broadcasting on radio while Reno was still in high...

There is at least 75 years of good behavioral research on how to practice to learn (e.g., practice schedules - like blocked vs random, effects on beginners vs novice vs expert, how/when/how much to...

I'll second the Flatpicking Essentials series. These are great, and I might be ready to part with a few of the early ones now.

Thumbs up for Brad Laird's eBooks. Highly recommended.

Bertram is right on the target. Visual processing is extremely slow, and since the frets don't move finger movements guided by a combination of proprioception and memory is plenty accurate, if you...

We're overthinking this. These supposed changes in mechanical and acoustic properties can be measured (as simply as measuring speaker performance, or as complicated as monitoring the complex strain...

http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/reprints/IntaViolin.pdf

Here's an attempt to conduct a controlled scientific experiment. Older paper from 2005 - interesting experiment using two new violins - one...

On PC's are the garden-variety sound cards good enough for the analog-to-digital conversion? Are these 8 bit, more? I've got my old Harmon-Kardon turntable and massive twin-amp amp-preamp (dual...

Motor actions using (procedural) memory can blend automatic (less conscious) control with cognitive control (more conscious) in varying degrees depending on task, skill level, etc. Rapid sequential...

Of course, the entire discipline of ergonomics is based on the assumption that optimal function is more easily achieved from understanding mechanism - rather than believing that humans always achieve...

Seems to be a lateral-pinch group, and a pulp or tip-pinch group. Our upper extremities have enough mechanical degrees-of-freedom to make either work (in guitar flatpickers there are few...

Yes, here in Iowa we are at the peak of the winter heating season and I'm refilling my Oasis case humidifiers every 4 days (and I have a furnace-mounted humidifier too) and maintaining my mando and...

I'm learning that playing the mando, especially tremolo technique, which requires a really light grip on the pick so the wrist stays loose, really helps my guitar flatpicking by keeping forearm...

You are getting good advice here from those who are saying to go get a diagnosis from a hand specialist or neurologist, someone who is trained in upper extremity neural and vascular function. You...

What's the thought on the Mando sweetening setting?

I just purchased a beautiful Weber from a Cafe member in November. When it came on a morning delivery I just stuck the box in the corner and played my guitar to take my mind off of the mando. At 5...

I also live in Eastern Iowa and am thinking about something in the Weber Yellowstone class, but want to try others. Road trip!

Bob Black (banjo) is still performing

Necks act as a load to the traveling waves that will filter the energy (they can't add energy) according to the impedance (sort of a frequency-dependent 'resistance') match/mismatch between the neck...

Sure saw a lot of pros using Petersons at Kaufman Kamp this year. I've been using one about a year now and the tips here about how to pluck the string etc are exactly what the company says in the...

wow! That's a pretty rapid aggravation - just a few minutes! And then a prolonged inflammatory response. No pain for routine gripping tasks? As a newbie coming over from BG banjo, and a few years...

So I've been publishing in top-notch, peer-review scientific journals for 30 years. Permit me to speculate on the results (based on the history of these blinded perceptual tests) if the sample size...

Yes, more is usually better, but:

1) there were no statistical tests applied here - they used a descriptive approach
2) determination of the number samples required to generate sufficient 'power'...

This comment adds nothing to the thread, but I just had to say how refreshing it is to read the intelligent, well-balanced comments in this thread, compared to the xenophobic diatribes I've read on...