Jim mentioned this festival/camp: http://violontradquebec.ca/en/description-2/.
Lynne and I went one summer ... wonderful camp .. you can get along if you don't speak French ... but you miss more...
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Jim mentioned this festival/camp: http://violontradquebec.ca/en/description-2/.
Lynne and I went one summer ... wonderful camp .. you can get along if you don't speak French ... but you miss more...
Read and re-read Jill's response (#19) and Beanzy's (#21). Enda Scahill has some mandolin material on his site that you might want to check out.
Have fun with it and enjoy your trip!
Jill .... Many thanks for the sticker trick. Next time I'm in Custy's I'll splurge.
National RM-1 mandolin. No problem being heard and they can be quite expressive.
This whole thread seems to me to be a variation on the theme: "Play at our restaurant, we won't pay you, but think of the exposure." To which I replied to a pizza place once: "Cool. I'm having a...
Great shop! I was looking for a guitar with maple back and sides to get away from any potential problems traveling with rosewood and they had three down there. I traveled down and was helped by...
Aer Lingus is wonderful for musicians, five or six flights from Boston to Shannon and fiddles, mandolins, banjos and guitars have all ridden overhead. (One instrument for each of us per trip ......
The Webers are great! Both Mary and Bruce have been wonderful on both purchases and sales of instruments. Montana Lutherie would be my first stop if I were looking for an instrument. I had to stay...
His brother Enda, best known for banjo, plays the mandolin extremely well also. Musical family! Fergal's fiddle tune a day is a must see for my bride the fiddle player.
The roads can be "crazy narrow" ... but as I always say ... as beautiful a country as Ireland is .. it pales in comparison to her people. Usually when driving down very narrow roads two oncoming cars...
Base everything on Jill's great advice. Since we stay with a friend outside of Ennis when we're over we're great fans of that city and always make a stop at Custy's music store there. I'd linger in...
I'll second Jill's suggestion. Jill's course is also available at pegheadnation.com.
Both covers were ordered with thinsulate. The outside of both is very similar. The padding on the Hoffee seems softer and a bit thinner. I'd be happy buying either one again. I hope to be...
I have both. The Casedillo is for a Calton Super Jumbo Archtop guitar and the Hoffee is for a Hoffee case for my plectrum banjo. I haven't seen a Casedillo cover for a mandolin ... but here are the...
Pete's passing is a particularly great loss for those of us here in Vermont. His presence was a treasure to all. He had been battling cancer for quite a while and was in control of his passing...
Michael ... Great to see this. We'll be in Ireland when it happens this year .... but if it's a fall thing we'll see you next time.
Ryk
On our last pre-covid trip to Ireland we were taken by Des Mulkere to Oliver O'Donnel's home outside of Tubber for a session that ended up having Micky Dunne and a few others. Then a bus pulled up...
I understand the uselessness of the usual case latch locks ... which is why on the Hoffees I've bought I ask Jeff to put on the twist latches; an all around better latch with a better locking option.
I want to thank the posters in this thread for all the information ... especially about the Pearse tenor set. I purchased a '38 Epiphone Triumph arch top tenor. I hadn't been as happy as I could...
Jeff Hoffee just did a refit of a guitar case for me. Refit and return shipping was $250. Can't beat the cases or the service. All of my ten thumbs up for Jeff and his crew.
John Greven says the same about his guitars. He loves seeing one come back that's made a lot of music.
Ryk
When you've been waiting for a custom case would you really want the maker to hold on to it after it was completed ... or would you rather have the case ... finally.? For me it'd be ship it fumes...
What Jill said. There are three Webers here and they are all well loved. Bruce Weber does business now as Montana Lutherie and has worked on the mandola that Lynne bought. Wonderful folks do do...
We've lost a wonderful human being who was a superb musician.
What Jill said ... plus .. have the different banjos played for you as well as trying them out. Everything sounds different "out front" and it might make a difference when deciding between...