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That's why I have Galli on my short list.

I've looked at the online custom-order forms, but they amount only to getting something printed in bulk on their standard lines of picks. I've tried a few times with the...

Yes, I recall. Thanks for the thoughts.

A bit more than two hours of this material has been compiled to CD, but it's not at all easy to lay hands to it: https://artist.cdjournal.com/d/-/1195121027

Another sound I wish would enter my earholes is a professional recording—or any recording or performance, for that matter—of Calace's concerto for liuto cantabile, op.150. Still waiting . . .

Yes, of course, but many of the old ones and my personal preference favor longish, perhaps just shy of 40 mm.

Wider and shorter. I like this profile for guitars (although it's been a very long time since I've applied plectra to guitars). Perhaps oddly, I've never really liked this classic guitar shape on...

I really doubt it, but does anybody know of any pick makers fashioning Neapolitan-type pletcra of polyetherimide (which goes by the trade name Ultem or, in the case of Dunlop's brand, Ultex)? I...

Yeah, that too . . .

Thanks, Joe. I am a long-time member. Now to address my limitations: I'll need a mandolin quartet, substantial string orchestra, and large performance space.

Here's a thing I really want to hear: Ralph Vaughan Williams' (1872–1958) Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis with a mandolin-family quartetto classico playing the concertino role in beautiful,...

Nice arrangement.

Interesting to pair a harpsichord (which is often approached as the domain of early-music and historic performance specialists) with a very modern Gibson archtop (which is not) . . . not that there's...

Guitars are almost universal to mandolin orchestras (as were banjos during the "golden era"). They offer some diversity of timbre, similar to separate string, woodwind, brass, etc. sections in...

For what it's worth, Respighi himself named this movement "La Befana," a witch-like old woman of Italian folklore. Because it's easier to copy-and-paste from Wikipedia than CD liner notes:


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Wow. Pretty remarkable playing. I've actually played this work, but in the original orchestral setting (it's the only time I've had the opportunity to play with a large symphony orchestra). If...

I've played a solo guitar arrangement of this tune that was published by a deceased friend of mine, Matanya, through his company Editions Orphée. Matanya knew I played wedding gigs. When he...

Have you tried https://www.loc.gov/search/?all=true&q=jules+cottin?

Never mind. Looks like they list it as "catalogue record only."

. . . and there certainly was some precedent for the existence of a "Mandolino lombardo a corde doppie metalliche."

PPS: And, just for good measure, from the appendix "Varie forme di mandolini e strumenti affini" of Pisani's method (Pisani, A. 1899. Manuale teorico–pratico del mandolinista. Ulrico Hoepli Editore,...

PS: I dug a little deeper into my e-mail archive on this odd 6-course Embergher. It looks like my first visit with the piece was in summer 2004 and my return was in autumn 2008. While we discussed...

And here's a fairly well-known ensemble that often eschews tremolo entirely:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7K-gMDUA-E


. . . but when they do use it, all the mandokin are in:

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It's often a matter of personal choice. However, in ensemble, I tend to prefer to hear all the mandolin-family instruments applying similar protocols to tremolo or not across the board. Here's a...

Searching for images of something altogether different, I stumbled across this posted during one of my prolonged absences from the cafe. I first observed this instrument around 2003 or '04 when I...

That sounds fun. Thanks for the tip, Nick. I really like no.6, BWV 1012, but it's challenging and doesn't get a lot of play in transcription.