Donald Shaw is a fine musician and composer and for the past many years has been director of the now globally-famous Celtic Connections Festival held...
I'm familiar with the "Give us a tune" problem: The ones I'm currently learning aren't ready, and the others haven't been practised in a while! This...
You state that you like and play Irish music so just putting it out there that we don't really "improvise" in Irish traditional music (something you...
The reverb lends a lot of authority to the solitary mandolin (I picture the mandolinist dancing dubstep inside Cambridge King's College Chapel).
For...
Agree with booker - After learning on a Kentucky I tried an Eastman whose neck is ever-so-slightly more narrow and it felt very different to play. In...
It's an optical illusion created by the double courses. The spacing between courses at the neck is the generally same as an electric or steel string...
tavy, this does not add up, "has a carbon fiber insert" and "i can flex it with my fingers". are you sure that stuff is actually carbon fiber and not...