Hi. This is Bill Silverman, owner of El Dorado Guitar Accessories, with an unabashed promotion of our mandolin straps
The leather for the front loop and tailpiece strap-buttonhole is much thinner...
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Hi. This is Bill Silverman, owner of El Dorado Guitar Accessories, with an unabashed promotion of our mandolin straps
The leather for the front loop and tailpiece strap-buttonhole is much thinner...
My company, El Dorado Guitar Accessories, makes several varieties of mandolin straps, all with a thin "snake biting its tail" front loop that works on almost all F-style scrolls & for headstocks or...
We do custom sizes and our front loop is thin enough to easily accommodate F-style scrolls or under raised pickguards on A-styles. Works great on my Collings MF, MT, MTO's, and Mandola.
Bill
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Umm, a bit of shameless promotion for my company: El Dorado Guitar Accessories. Here's our "Kachina" model mandolin strap
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Contact Nowell Siegel at Living Tree Music in SoCal 818-895-2093, www.livingtreemusic.com.
I understand that Nowell isn't taking in any repairs until May, due to COVID, but he's an excellent...
My experience has been that the ambient temperature is more of a determining factor than humidity. If the temperature drops my strings go sharp, and when the temperature rises the strings go flat. ...
that's why I like the Collings mandolins: no Floridas to be found, not even on the MF5V
a friend of mine, who gifted me his longtime Gibson Southern Jumbo, told me: "We don't own fine instruments. we are just their caretakers".
I have a stash of cloth diapers that I've used on my guitars and mandolins for years. Super soft! I use Fast-Fret on the strings, wiping it off above the strings & pulling the cloth up between the...
the A strings are always the problem strings on mandolins
Congrats. I have a Collings MT and an MTO. Love them both. They're different tonally, but both fun to play.
I have several pieces for our mandolin straps that have large strap-buttonholes, precisely because I designed them for my Kentucky KM-675 years ago. We have since changed to a more common 1/4"...
Can anyone provide a recommendation for a good mandolin repair person for set-up & adjustment? I'm in Southern California in the Pasadena area.
Thanks all.
I have a 1950 Martin A mandolin that I purchased back in 1979. It's a peach, but you might want to do yourself (but not your wallet) a favor and check out a Collings MT mandolin. They are louder,...
Sierra Hull is just killer on this video. This is what recently inspired me to get Old Dangerfield under my fingers. It's hypnotic.
This discussion interests me as an amateur mandolinist who plays mostly Bach, and mostly from Daniel Sellman's two transcription books of Bach for mandolin. Although I think all the responders to...
A shameless plug for my company's mandolin straps: El Dorado. We make them and I personally use them on my two Collings mandolin and on my recently acquired Collings Mandola.
No buckles,...
The more videos of Sierra Hull I watch the more amazed I am at her talent. Arguably one of the best mandolinist/multi-instrumentalist in the world.
I've played a few of the vintage Gibson A model mandolins, and I found them to be a bit difficult to play, especially compared to contemporary mandos out there, and I wasn't sold on the tone. YMMV....
My experience exactly. I purchased a used 2012 MT with the Stew-Mac Golden Age tuners that were an absolute bear to use. I phoned Collings and got told to phone Stew-Mac directly and tell them...
Rather than fight City Hall (or the Collings tailpiece) I have a roll of blue painter's masking tape handy. I use a little piece of the tape and stick it on top of the string area once I have the...
Nicely done, Phil! I've been working on several of the Bach cello pieces and sonatas for the past four or five years. Not the easiest stuff to pull off, but you do it with ease. I'm very impressed.
+1 for the Collings MT mandolins. I own an MT and an MTO. I went through a couple of Kentucky's and Loar's, and two very nice Eastmans. In my opinion the Collings A model mandolins are head and...
Funny, I was just watching a YouTube video that refers to the same topic, but in regard to violins, which are first-cousins to mandolins. Very amusing & informative
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May I humbly suggest looking at El Dorado mandolin straps. We don't promote them as strongly as our guitar straps, but many mandolin stores, such as TME and Gryphon find their customers like them a...