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Look up an oldie-but-goodie book by Robert Starer called Rhythmic Training. By the end it gets into some pretty complex patterns.

Is there a local store where you can browse the selections? Hard in Covid times, of course. These guys have tons of different strings if you are using mail order. They also have a large pick...

These older Japanese bowl backs don't sell for much, regardless of quality.

Plenty of people will tell you they are mostly junk and have a lousy sound. That said, I bought a mid-1970s Suzuki this...

There is a tradition of using the best materials for the top-of-the-line instruments. In violin world, student-quality bows are usually mounted with nickel silver, mid-range with sterling, and gold...

Nice interview with Avi Avital about his new album.


https://www.classicalwcrb.org/post/out-box-art-mandolin#stream/0

F-style, A-style, two-point. Oval hole, ff holes. A-4s, where the neck is flush with the top, A- or F-5s where it is elevated. Bowl backs, canted-top flat backs. New, old, midcentury. Italian,...

A decent conductor too. There's too much going on to do it without one.

Music doesn't get any more gorgeous than this piece.

The companion story is the one about the evening a woman came up to Jascha Heifetz after a concert, gushing about how wonderful his Guarneri del Gesù had sounded. Heifetz held the violin case up to...

Not a lot (so far) in the mandolin cases beyond picks, cleaning cloths, and humidification items.

My violin case contains:
_instrument and two bows
_shoulder rest
_rosin
_cleaning cloth
_3...

Medley12, I have heard more than one bluegrass band whose defining feature seems to be speed at the expense of all else, and like you I don't particularly care for it. There's a huge difference...

Primetones come in a whole bunch of thicknesses if you like the teardrop shape.

Then she'll have to paint more to live up to your playing, and you'll both be ahead.

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Including shirts and jeans? Never seen that one before in a music store. It could get you thrown out of most of them real quick.

I'll give an answer to you question about books. The website for Mel Bay has enough mandolin books to keep you entertained and learning for the next decade or so. One of my favorites is Marilynn...

Nice article in Rolling Stone this afternoon.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-rice-bluegrass-music-legacy-1108100/

Ahhh, the John Cage arrangement?

I bought a similar one, an M-215, this summer. Mine has a rosewood bowl, while yours is maple, with the same number of staves. It has been a lot of fun to mess with, and has a nice, resonant tone.
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Sue, if you are interested in learning to read alto clef get a copy of Harvey Whistler's From Violin to Viola. Although written for bowed strings most of the pieces work fine on mandola.

Different species of wood expand and contract at different rates as humidity changes. With a spruce top, maple back and sides, ebony or other super dense wood for the fingerboard, all glued together...

The Kennedy Center's Arts Across America series presents video of performing artists from all areas of the US. This one, with at least some mandolin content, came out this week. Who has taken part in...

This is exactly why it is done this way. The fingering for all woodwind instruments is very similar. By transposing parts players can switch from oboe (in C) to English horn (in F) or between Bb, A,...

It's true! Flute, oboe, bassoon, recorders, and anything with strings are all C instruments. Make friends with those people.

If you live in an area with a music store and a school music program, go buy the ground level violin book. Many school districts use the Essential Elements series. It introduces reading at the...