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    Tailpiece "tilted"

    Recently switched out an original tin TP to a one piece Allen TP on a Ratliff A5. I noticed however that when I line up the new Allen TP to the holes the top of the tailpiece doesn't sit flush--that...
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    Re: Affordable "studio" microphone

    They NEVER sleep!!! :)
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    Re: Affordable "studio" microphone

    I may be straying further away from my OP here and into home recording setups, of which I know oogatz about. My setup: microphone into an Mbox mini into an old laptop that runs Protools. Yes...
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    Re: Affordable "studio" microphone

    Tremendous response everybody--I know it's something that's been discussed ad nauseum in the forum. By the way, what's the best pick and strings to use? Just kidding
    The Audio Technica 2035 seems...
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    Re: Affordable "studio" microphone

    Thanks everyone for the recommendations--I'll be looking more at all of these suggested mics online. So far it's the MXL pair for the affordability and because I do sing a little--want to record a...
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    Affordable "studio" microphone

    Hi,

    After a quick search on the forum for "studio mics" I've deduced that you all must be doctors (cardioidologists) because your mic recommendations, albeit nice and likely German-made, are...
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    Re: Bridge questions

    Typo? That's no typo. JK actually my wonderful bride pushed and pushed me to pull the trigger on a new used mandolin. Now she says my beatup old guitar is too jangly....; D

    Thanks for the input...
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    Re: Bridge questions

    Thanks everyone for the input--I do have Rob's setup manual and will probably consult that as I readjust. I've scoped the neck and to my untrained eye, the "jumbo" frets look very even. A vast...
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    Bridge questions

    Hi,

    Recently ditched the scroll and got a nice used Ratliff A model mandolin. Definitely different tone than F model I cut my teeth on. Anyways, the seller had a pretty high action going on the...
  10. Fancy recording setup, now need affordable mic

    Hello mandolin pickers,

    I just picked up an mbox mini and protools (eek) for really cheap. Well all id like to record of course is some singing and guitar playing and of course some mandolin...
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    Re: Gospel survey

    Gospel music is the greatest. When you sing to Jesus, or about the Savior, that is what real music was intended for. Colossians 3:16
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    Re: The Foggy Dew

    That's what I was thinking. Cornbread Nation, yeah! good album, heck, great album!
  13. Anyone going to the Compton/Long workshop?

    I happened upon an article/invitation on (I'm assuming) the cafe here that said that Mike Compton and David Long were to be spending a glorious weekend in Lutsen, MN. Workshop was like $35.00 for...
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    Re: RIP Merl Saunders

    That's too bad, he was a great musician. I had always mixed his name with Melvin Seals who was a "worthy constituent" of the late, great Jerry Garcia.
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    Re: J75s--David Grisman Set...sandpaper?

    Ah, I thank you for yer input, SternArt. They are the Grisman set-- yep, the J74's, my mistake. Thanks for the advice man. God Bless
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    Re: How do you afford your mandolin lifestyle?

    Ive got an Eastman 815 Fstyle mando, an electric mando, a Martin acoustic/electric, a Guild jumbo body guitar. Though I know these are just earthly treasures and mean nothing If say I passed into...
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    J75s--David Grisman Set...sandpaper?

    I recently strung up some D'addario J75s (I have used J74s in the past) after playing through a coupla sets of Sammy B monel Wounds. This is my first time using the Dawg endorsed set and I have to...
  18. Re: Plymouth, MN - a little west of Minneapolis

    There's a little folk music shop in Richfield called the Homestead Pickin' Parlor, wherein they have a pickin' circle every Saturday? I believe. Real down home folks and the jams usually seem pretty...
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    Mid Missouri Mandolin

    Hey I was trying to get the general consensus on a Mid-Missouri mandolin. MidMo M-14 I think (I keep seeing the mandola though!) There is one at a guitar shop an hour's drive from where I live, and...
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    Re: My rant about the Gibson "A" models

    Final question, your Eastman 815 will fetch anywhere from $950-1200 (max) on the used market. Would you sell it to buy a $1K vintage Gibson? You already answered it. As gently as I can put this,...
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    My rant about the Gibson "A" models

    I've been away from the board for awhile, school,work, and pickin are of my top priorities--but I've been checking in the classifieds every so often and couldn't help but notice some Gibson A models...
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    Re: Gibson A puzzle

    I've been dreaming about those mandolins for quite some time now. Do they sound as amazing as they look? Sorry I can't offer any advice, I just had to mention how much I (please forgive me) envy...
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    Ah, what did I say? Oh man this is embarrassing....

    Ah, what did I say? Oh man this is embarrassing. John McGann cleared it up in a different thread that I posted and clarified that in fact its called "O Voo Da Mosca" translation "Flight of the Fly."...
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    Ah, thank you so much John! Muy Chorinho? What...

    Ah, thank you so much John! Muy Chorinho? What was I smoking? Thanks for your input and thanks for your contribution to music, it's really great stuff...:D
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    I'm unfamiliar with this fellow, this Ira...

    I'm unfamiliar with this fellow, this Ira Glass... Is his humor/rhetoric anything like Garrison Keilor? I say this only because people apparently find him both 'charmingly witty' and also 'annoying.'...
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