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I’d like to share an experience that might inform someone else on their quest towards whatever musical goals they pursue.

I’ve played mandolin for a long time, have owned—and sold—numerous fine...

Beautiful.

Your first link works fine for me. Beautiful tune!

Very nicely done!

You guys! That’s the banjo part!

Sounds like your nut might be too high. Too much tension when you fret causes notes to go sharp?

I’m not going to live long enough to memorize that. Beautiful!

Sessions.Org is a great site for every variation of just about any Celtic, or related tune. I visit there often. You can get standard notation or abc. format. BUT, I just discovered that they have...

It was a modification. I never meant to suggest anything else. But, I think this modification—including the several modifications Bruce made to my mandolin—all come under the heading of a setup....

Early last year I acquired two mandolins, a Collings MT, brand new from TME, and a lightly used black faced MTO from a Cafe member. Both have 1 3/16” nuts. They are dimensionally identical, but...

You’re welcome, of course. Be sure to listen to the Montana Mandolin Society do their take on it.

https://youtu.be/ho05fbrVtG0

Not much I can say about this, except wow!

https://youtu.be/9okcJoZEKnw

Beethoven’s Favorite Waltz, by James Bryan.

https://youtu.be/NzPJjd5kg4E

Here’s some tab I found...

http://www.mandolintab.net/tabs.php?name=The%20New%20Rigged%20Ship&id=01388

I second that recommendation! Brilliant, funny, charming series. I own the DVD set! I think we’ve watched it four times. McKenzie Crook is a genius.

Very nice!

Simon, I just listened to your version of LITD on YT. (That is you, right?) Great swinging rhythm right there, if you ask me! Enough to make me want to learn that tune!

IMHO, the thing that really stands out to me is that you ARE DOING IT. Not being afraid to put it out there, asking for comments/help is a huge step towards improving! Soon, someone more qualified...

Nicely played! And what a pretty F-2!

Why you would buy an octave mandolin, then want to make it sound like a mandolin? I do love playing mine capoed at the fifth fret. As Mike says, CGDA.

I disagree about that justice. Great tune, nicely played on a very beautiful looking and sounding mandolin.

THAT is going to be a beautiful pair of instruments!!!

I own a beautiful black-face Collings MTO. It’s a wonderful instrument, but very different than those old Gibson As. When I acquired my MTO, I passed my own plain, beat up 1920 Gibson A to my...

I would hold my mandolin out in front of me, with strings facing upwards. Then I would produce a one-inch red rubber ball, which I would begin to bounce off the strings...like on a man on a...

Another gem!