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Diego, My mandolin looks a lot like that one in your picture, except that metal piece over the strings is longer and the fingerboasrd is probably made from a different kind of wood. Your pick guard...

Eugene:
I'm not sure what model My Martin is. I had it made for me around 1993. It has a wider body and lighter wood than the one in your picture, and a black pick guard. I can't see the top...

Does anyone have any suggestions for attaching a strap to the body of a Martin mandolin? I really can't bear to have a hole drilled right at that seam. Anyone know where I could get a custom-made...

This didn't happen to me, but it happened to a former boyfriend, and I was in the audience and was embarrassed for him (or maybe just embarrassed that I knew him??). He was performing with his band...

I can play almost anything by ear on my mandolin, although I can't put my finger on exactly why or how (no pun intended). A couple of theories that may help you: Maybe it's 'cause I started playing...

I was just previewing the Grisman/Garcia April 27th release ("Been All Around the World"), and the "Handsome Cabin Boy Waltz" just blew me away--the mandolin tremolo adds just the perfect touch to a...

. . .or if you prefer Fine Art, check out this painting (by Milton Avery:

http://www.adelsongalleries.com/palmbeach.html

I like playing along with Alison Kraus CDs, especially her earlier ones--Too Late to Cry and I've Got That Old Feeling, and her two songs on the Cold Mountain soundtrack. Her voice is wonderful and...

It sounds like you might be thinking too much, instead of learning how to listen. When I was a kid I took classical violin lessons, but never really enjoyed the instrument. One day I picked up a...

oh, so THAT's the kind of place all the decent guys in their 40s and 50s hang out at . . . (I live in a college town)

I just rented a DVD "Confessions of Robert Crumb," in which R Crumb (70s guru of underground comics) was filmed playing mandolin in one of the early scenes. Even though he was an icon of the...

Tremolo is my main technique. I'm basically self-taught, so the following advice might fall under the "bad habit" heading, but here goes: When I play tremolo, most of the time I brace my right arm on...