to me it seems the wierd part is - the mandolin "family" of instruments - including the traditional greek bouzouki - are as old if not older than many of the instruments that became part of the...
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to me it seems the wierd part is - the mandolin "family" of instruments - including the traditional greek bouzouki - are as old if not older than many of the instruments that became part of the...
A nod to "presence" I'm sure
I'd bet my last dollar Appollon , Burns, Monroe, Statman, Grisman, Marshall ( both of em) , Bush, and Thile - would all say -
"she rocks totally"
anybody puttin her down is just jealous
if...
I like it
I sure don't know - but I don't think this kind of naming issue exists in other instrument families ?
wood winds ?
bowed strings?
Brass ?
I did play Norman Blakes old lyon and healy - a frinnd of mine had purchased it from Norman and let me play it on several occasions - nice box - very bright tone
I had seen Norman play "Old Mother...
I do believe Norman Blake has recorded with an 8 string tenor banjo -
details of the axe are unknown to me
"old fiddler's roll call" from the Mysterious South album (cd?)
perhaps he has used it...
I'm sorry - mandocello to banjo - that is regressive - I think the supreme court needs to intervene and prevent our society from slipping over the edge into the deep end
where is the spanish...
tired of playing alone - but can't find the time or make the long drive ?
tired of playing the same old 2 and 3 chord songs with folks who are either to fast or too slow for you?
purchase a loop...
I never owned one ( now I have an ovation mandocello!!!)
all the ovation mandos I played -
play easy ( action and neck)
are light weight
sound great plugged in
stay in tune regardless of...
great stuff
kind of Ry Cooder-ish
nice
warm tone
how do you have it tuned ?
maybe I've been a complete idoit all these years but I always assumed woman who dress to look cute or hot or show off thier bodies - do that because they like to.
and hey - I strongly encourage...
that album was O'Connor on guitar and violin, Darol on cello and violin, Mike on mandolin and mandocello and guitar,
Rob Wasserman Bass, and of course the Dawg on mandolin - a monteleone I think was...
Greenday on a refurbished Stella Tenor
I dig it all the way
a few years ago I had a manager who had similar musical interests give me a fender 12 string that was collecting dust in it's case at his house - not exactly the same thing - but who am I to...
Quote "That's it, I'm giving up music. " AlanN
ah but at least the thought police can't fine us for playing a tune on the 8 string in our kitchens - or humming it in our heads
or can they ?
...
I was watching the Disney channel with my 1 year old daughter - when I think it was Dan Zanes House party came on (complete with Ukelele in the intro) - but later had a guitar- anyway there was a...
I think "folk of the wood" has had a few of the higher end weber F style octaves
there was a video of one being played
Darol Anger has a Monteleone F style octave
you can hear it on the...
"Big Red (I do indeed know this instrument well) has a 26.5" scale, about the same as a Selmer guitar like Django Reinhardt played. It is essentially a bass guitar tuned up a third, and tuned in...
I used to be interested in anything and everything - from 20th century classical - to bebop, blues,and swing, gregorian chant and eastern european folk music - American traditional music ( including...
I have to vote that Mike Marshall is a virtuoso -
saw him with MMQ playing I think a Mozart peice - the other 3 members of the group kind of stared at him with that "damn he's good " look
...
lot of great choices out there
for me
DGQ #1- this for me is the begining of new acoustic music
I, like so many others - was just beside myself after hearing this for the first time as well...
Blue Country Heart is just a plain great record - Jorma, Jack and Barry played a lot off of it at a BG festival a few years back - great stuff -
Hot Tuna is coming to town this winter - I think I...
"Real men drink single malt. Real men like Bill Monroe. Any questions?"
actually Bill did not imbibe alcoholic beverages
so I guess by this standard
he was not a real man