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So if you die, it will serve you right for failing to look after yourself.

I would never shoot one of my instruments.

This is a fight with a straw man. The virtuoso said that technique comes before expression, he didn't say technique guarantees expression.

What matters is developing a process to learn and play a tune that inspires you. What that process actually is doesn't matter.

I rejoice for every person who finds the mossy overgrown path that leads to the purchase of a mandolin.

This depresses me when I think how bad my fiddle sounds :(

I've had more than 20 bluegrass gigs cancelled, so I'm out nearly $5

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a mandolin today.

If you can make yourself get older, you will lose the ability to hear high frequencies, and this will make your mandolin sound much less tinny, and give it way more bass. I've been trying this for 20...

If there's any way you can avoid this travel right now, dear Bill, please stay right where you are. I know none of us are used to living in such a situation, but it's a fact that the choices each of...

Despite my fondness for mandolins, I would be more excited about this happening in the supermarket and the pharmacy, TBH.

They not only cancelled St Patrick's day, they also closed every school and college, banned all mass gatherings and basically put the country on lockdown for at least 2 weeks. Excellent choices from...

There's no mystery: your brain does the job of making the mandolin sound how you want it to, and often needs time to learn or re-learn how. Because you don't have conscious access to how it does that...

One great way to get ready for performance is to record yourself and listen back to what you play critically. You will learn (and fix) many things that way.

Even better, join the Song A Week...

Frankly you need more mandolins, you have barely started.

I'd play that F4 in a bluegrass band any ole day of the week.

I really meant it. I should have DM'd you, sorry. I'm very happy to hear all is well.

Weird. My best guess would be something is going on with the grooves of the bridge or the nut, like maybe the string is catching on and pinging off a tiny shelf or double groove causing the extra...

Are you okay? Happy to talk if something is upsetting you.

The point is that he's playing with one finger fewer than before. The injured finger is not of lesser value to the poor OP I'm sure, it is just (temporarily, we hope) less healthy than it was.

Sometimes when you play notes on the D string, the G string will resonate in sympathy, might be worth checking.

If you want the note to choke off when you take off your finger, then you need to...

The quickest way to make a mandolin sound better is to put it up for sale.

Oh, that's why I couldn't book a restaurant anywhere last night.

There are no bad mandolins.

I just rummaged in my drawer and somehow pieced together a full set of J74s for a mandolin that had been wearing the same set for about 5 years. They sound so much better. Don't be like me, people:...