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    Re: Falling in love over and over

    Thanks for this info! Tom Waits took that line for his "Come On Up to the House."
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    Re: JazzMando Outrage!

    Keillor's singing is obviously not professional and boring to some. But maybe his singing and certainly his humor (his writing) made PHC what it's been. He's why people listened to the show. ...
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    Re: Mandolin blues/artists

    Hope this new info. Those interested in blues and the mandolin might be interested in these two items.

    1. Google PRX Blues Unlimited #165: Wind City Mandolin for a two-hour show on the mandolin in...
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    Re: Using the Mandolin to practice Violin

    [QUOTE=Megaphone;1394716]Hi all. Well I am on week 4 of my approximately 5 week Navy underway period and the Mandolin practice is going well. I am pretty new to the instrument but I find myself...
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    Re: Mandolin blues/artists

    [QUOTE=StuartE;1380975]Rich Del Grosso is a performer, scholar, and instructor of blues mandolin. He's written a book on The Mandolin in the Blues

    Jim Richter is an outstanding blues and rock...
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    Re: Mandolin blues/artists

    StuartE,

    Thanks for your post. The mandolin site has a great interview with Johnny Young. Anyone interested in his music should listen to (besides Chicago/The Blues/Today) this cd: *Mandolin...
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    Belated Wises to Norman Blake

    Happy birthday a day late to Norman Blake. I hope he keeps writing for and performing on the mandolin.
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    Re: Bridging Mandolin to Fiddle

    4. Play scales with your tuner on to check your intonation.


    As they say, NFI, but I'd recommend Darol Anger's cd.*Darol Anger's DIGTAL SRUTI BOX for intonation and zoning out.*
    I don't...
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    Re: Bridging Mandolin to Fiddle

    Ditto on what Nashville has to say.

    Two suggestions

    1. Take a lesson or three with a violinist to get started on bowing, which is just about the whole deal about fiddling. Use what you learn...
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    Re: If This Thing Could Talk?

    Ah, but the stories it could tell. . . . .
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    Re: Origin and significance of "The"

    Timbofood, I'd like to be that guy, but after today I only feel Old and in The way. It's been a long one.

    Randy
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    Re: Origin and significance of "The"

    [QUOTE=bossfrog;1381023] I wonder if the guy who has the original laminate that he tore up will ever donate it to the Bill Monroe Museum in Bean Blossom someday.

    You mean "The Guy," right? I'll...
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    Re: Anyone know the name of this tune?

    It's a great tune, especially when the key changes. Compton does the tune great.
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    Re: Anyone know the name of this tune?

    Memory, don't fail me now. I think it's Kenny Baker's "Roxanna's Waltz." Baker started it in C and then shifted to A, at least that's what I remember.
  15. Re: Easy way to practice at night without upsetting the neighbour

    Neither the fiddle or the mandolin has ever been a problem or my neighbor. One of my two cats, who I've had for a few years now, can't stand the fiddle live or recorded. Using one of those heavy...
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    Re: A Tale of Two Music Stores

    My friends and I went into the first store. Great store with lots of great inventory, especially high end mandos. One of my friends plays a Gil and was interested in purchasing another mando. . . ....
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    Re: GHS Bobby Osborne Signature Strings

    [QUOTE=Mandoplumb;1370659] That being said I still know a dozen or more local pickers that no one has heard of outside this locality that is more innovative and "better" player than Bobby Osborne.
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    Re: Norman and Nancy vid

    I wish I knew too. Is there a Blake video called *Planet Riders*, or something like that?
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    Re: #14 The Black A4

    Jim,

    I have Mike's A2-Z 25 and feel just as you do. Mike's work is wonderful--thanks for your post.
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    Re: #14 The Black A4

    Nick, my experience playing with other instruments is very close to yours. My A2-Z #25 makes itself heard among with four or five instruments and while keeping an oval sound. Mike's work is...
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    Re: #14 The Black A4

    Mik, this another beautiful and wonderfully sounding mandolin. Congrats on more fantastic work.

    Randy
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    Re: Nice video from Sam Bush

    See Tom Dillon's café tab on this tune. It's based on Sam Bush's version and gives fingering very close to Bush's if it isn't exact.
  23. Re: Peter Ostroushko on Mr Rogers Neighborhood

    [QUOTE=JeffD;1360700]Peter Ostroushko is one of my favorites. For a while I had his Mando Chronicles constantly playing in the background.[/QUO

    Thanks for mentioning this cd set, Jeff. I've ad it...
  24. Re: Capo is fine for banjo and guitar...why not mandolin?

    Old threads, like Dracula, lie just waiting to be brought to life once more. After this current capo thread slips back on the General Mandolin Discussion pages, it will reappear and look for more...
  25. Re: Are Gibson Sam Bush strings being discontinued?

    But will Gibson let Bush himself know if the strings are discontinued?:))
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