First pick you mentioned the Ultrex 1.00 is my pick of choice. Has been for years. But as others have mentioned try many others if you're so inclined. You'll find one you're comfortable with and gives you the sound you like.
First pick you mentioned the Ultrex 1.00 is my pick of choice. Has been for years. But as others have mentioned try many others if you're so inclined. You'll find one you're comfortable with and gives you the sound you like.
Ratliff R5 2007, Capek A5 2003, Washburn M5S-SB Jethro Burns 1982, Mid-Mo M-2, Epiphone MM 30 Bk mandolins, Harmony Batwing 1970's, George Bauer bowlback early 1900's Philadelphia.
"Don't cloud the issue with facts!" Groucho Marx
I don't know about Dagger -- he'll chime in on which pick he uses -- but most of the celtic mandolin players i know use a medium weight relatively thin pick with a point since ITM mandolin is a melody instrument, not a backing instrument, and you need to be able to compete with the fiddles, banjos and boxes so brighter is better.
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
How about these "neopolitan" picks..long and thin. I'd try one if I knew where to get it. I saw a clip of some serious chord tremolo on a bowlback with one, guy held it like a pencil.
Any opinions on the value of radius vs flat fingerboards for chord tremolo?
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^^^ These are great. I have one and mess around with it sometimes.
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Thassalotta picks!
FYI, the infamous traveling pick sampler(s) is/are about to relaunch so keep an eye out for my announcement in the next few weeks. No better way to try out 100+ different types of picks for just the cost of shipping them on to the next adventurous picker.
C. ~/:/~
Northfield F5S Amber #347 - 'Squeeze'
Mann EM-5 Hollow Body - Gimme Moore
Kentucky KM-270 - Not just for whisky
Flatiron 1N Pancake - Not just for breakfast
Epiphone Mandobird IV - Djangly
Cozart 8-string e-mando - El Ch(e)apo
Lanikai LB6-S Banjolele (tuned GDAE) - Plinky and the Brane
To misquote a line in a popular novel "the picker doesn't chose the pick - the pick choses you" Your part in the matter is to collect as many as you can of all sizes, thicknesses and points etc and keep playing and trying different picks until you find the pick that works for you. As you improve you may find a pick that was awful the first time - become your new favorite. There's no right answer for one but try them all and don't get rid of any too soon.
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