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Wow, Tom, great stuff. Hope all is well with you, sounds like it is.

There is a lot of bluegrass around. Don’t know of much near the convention center.

https://www.centraltexasbluegrass.org/Bluegrass-Events

I grew up in the Detroit area and had the pleasure on knowing Nolan. Great, great mandolin player. He taught me how to play chop chords. Go in peace.

I played a lot of bluegrass in the area in the late 60s and 70s. I was a member of the Sunnysiders. I have an Miller Brothers LP (somewhere). Very cool that they got the award.

I feel fortunate to have grown up in the Detroit area. Lots of music of all kinds, lots of great ethnic food, great art museum, etc.

Hey DougC and catmandu2, fellow ex-Detroiter here. Left in ‘77 to come to Austin. I remember Strings ‘n Things. A bandmate managed the store. Do you remember Pick ‘n Strum. Also in Birmingham, the...

Dick Dubois is great. https://dougr.tripod.com/index-2.html

Also, John Allison http://allisonguitars.com/

Good luck

Yes, its a Randy Wood A50 conversion. I played in a band the winter of ‘72 in Colorado (Goldrush). Brian Lappin, the banjo picker, bought it from Tut Taylor. Don’t know what happened to it after that.

Can anyone tell what pickup she is using? I don’t think she is plugged in for the video, but i am curious.

I’ve played the acoustic for decades and have a very heavy (for lack of a better term) approach with both hands. With the electric, I have had much better results with a thinner pick and a looser...

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Way to go Ben. See you soon.

Proud owner of #70. Happy Birthday, Mike. Sorry, no tat.

I’ve been playing the fiddle about 40 years; the mandolin for about 45. My mandolin playing came along, but my fiddle playing.....I had about 6 months of classical violin lessons early on to try to...

New Blevins? How about Old Blevins.
https://youtu.be/zCwmgH246AA

As I mandolin player, I have often felt compelled to cram as many notes as I could into breaks and tunes. However, as I have progressed on the fiddle, I have found I do much better by taking out...

I use NBs on my acoustic mando. Will they also work on my electric with a magnetic pickup.

Thanks,

Tim Wilson

Hey Tom, saw ‘Wayne Shorter on 10 string’ and figured that must be Tom Wright. Great stuffl.

I second Mark G’s notion about 2 note chords. You can get a great percussive sound just using two notes. For me, the chop is as much about percussion as it is about chord structure. I use the G and...

Thanks, Ivan. I appreciate you going to the trouble. I am going to study on the video and the Riffstation chords. I am curious how it will handle extended and altered chords.

Tim

Ivan, have you tried this app with different kinds of music? Do you know how it works on jazz, i.e. piano music?

Thanks,

Tim

What Al from Colorado said works for me. But I take more than a day off, sometimes several. When I get back to it, I find some of the vexing passages or licks fall into place. Subconscious at work?
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I, too, did not notice a volume loss with Monels. But, you know, I think I think too hard sometimes about all this stuff, and am not sure my thinking and observations are all that reliable. Hence,...

Ellis sitting in a leather chair, smoking a cigar, and drinking expensive Irish whiskey....yes, I have seen that many a time.

Oh, you were referring to an Ellis mandolin. My bad.:whistling:

I...

Interesting. I am the original poster, and I was asking whether Monels had more ‘give’ to them than bronze. I didn’t say it in the post, but I was referring to Mangans. You seem to confirm my...