Interesting, I hadn't heard of this particular tuning before. What are its benefits / disadvantages? I have commonly tuned down my mandos in the past (CGDA usually) to reduce tension and get a lower...
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Interesting, I hadn't heard of this particular tuning before. What are its benefits / disadvantages? I have commonly tuned down my mandos in the past (CGDA usually) to reduce tension and get a lower...
Hard to go wrong with any of the above, quality-wise, but as you mention being a guitar player you might fancy a guitar-bodied style
I happened to run across this page of guitar-body octaves by...
Could be, or that in combination with an inadvertently misattributed mandola (17"/14" = about 21% longer than a mandolin) would bring the two closer together in size (a design feature that might've...
Wild that you all had that much info about them ... I'd honestly never heard of that brand before for some reason. Surprised that they have a store right on Sunset that I must've passed by many times...
I don't post much these days because I don't play much anymore for various reasons, but I occasionally run across unusual instruments on the interwebs and like to share them
I've never heard of a...
Fantastic to finally see these folkx getting some recognition, one generally never hears anything about them. Queer, trans, & nonbinary folk of other are exactly the crucial demographic needed to...
Yes, obsessively now as time marches all over me. :)
My biggest thing right now is my increasingly unmanageable library (physical books, obviously) that occupies almost every room in my house in...
Quite the tale. Instruments certainly have a life of their own. Longer than that of their human caretakers, it seems, in some situations. With any luck someone will still be playing that Gibby in...
I only have one Tony Rice album, the compilation 58957:The Bluegrass Guitar Collection from 2003 ... but I play it a lot!
Great album I'd recommend for anyone starting out their exploration of...
I'm surprised this thread I started got resurrected. :cool:
FWIW I no longer have the F type I reviewed in my original post but I do have a Crossover 00 natural, over 5 years now and still my...
I don't see what the debate is, it's all a matter of taste and mood. I have pieces/songs in my mp3 collection all across the tempo and mood spectrum. All depends on what mood I'm in at a given time....
Mark O'Connor wrote a nice tribute for him in a FB post the other day ... excerpt:
One thing for sure I am grateful for (music relevant) is the rise of new technologies like MP3 that have opened up a whole new world of music, genres, and artists to me that I never could have...
Thanks. I just checked and realized it's been almost three years since my last post and I still have a lot of posts judging by the count under my avatar and I can't believe it's been 7 years since I...
Gosh, I get told that Morrissey and The Smiths are "old school." :crying:
Hearing '90s music on "oldies" radio is another shock to the system.
Then I realize we're currently as far from 1990 as...
Yep it is one way to go about it, but as indicated by others here it has gotten more difficult as competition increases. The economy has pushed more people downmarket, with the result that thrift...
I've been down this rabbit-hole before around here and have come to the conclusion that definitions will drive you crazy. That applies in other areas besides mandolins and music too. It's like you...
Yep I got a great $50 uke in the form of the Bugsgear which makes cool hard plastic ukes in a modern style. They're hard plastic, not that cheap material on some vintage plastic ukes, and robust...
Yeah I get enough of the political stuff on Twitter for a lifetime. :(
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Maybe 17-string, six-pickup hybrid double neck harp-slide-guitar hybrids will become the next thing. :cool:
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Maybe we can expect a Gibson smartphone in the future, like this Marshall phone that came out a couple of years ago. While this may sound intriguing to Gibson geeks, I'm not sure there's a huge...
Bill can finally take his seat between James Dean and Humphrey Bogart in the Nighthawks diner while being served by Elvis as Marilyn finds the whole thing quite hilarious.
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So, we can expect really deep discounts then? :grin: