Thanks for all of the advice, which I'm now cheerfully disregarding...
Or rather, I'm changing my thinking: Someone here reminded me that getting a cheaper instrument often leads to wanting a...
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Thanks for all of the advice, which I'm now cheerfully disregarding...
Or rather, I'm changing my thinking: Someone here reminded me that getting a cheaper instrument often leads to wanting a...
Again, thanks. I'm glad to hear about the Carvalho, as there are only a couple of YouTube vids. It has the G strung in octaves, which I'm not fond of, so it's a little hard to imagine with unisons....
Poking around, I found the Hora Concert Irish bouzouki, which looks quite nice! Is this the same as the Thomann instrument. Seems to be.
Okay, so two votes for the Hora, which I had forgotten about. The Petersen is waay tempting, but I'll have to sell the guitar first. Or just order it, figuring it's better to ask forgiveness than...
I'm casting about for an inexpensive bouzouki. So far I'm looking at the McNeela Premium or one of the Carvalho instruments. Are there others to look at?
If I doubled my budget (so twice what...
Why you need an octave mandolin with more than one cat:
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I very briefly thought of ordering a mandolin with a new mug: " ...but it came free, because I ordered the 10,000th mug. Really"
That's why I was able to use my mug for a while; my wife shunned it. We don't have cups and saucers, but most mugs are pottery, rather nice. Except for my deviations - instruments and star ships ...
A couple of years ago, I bought a larger Mando Cafe mug. It's a great size for coffee, a bit larger than all of our other mugs. So much better, in fact, that I haven't been able to use it for...
What?! You mean, it didn't happen?! Fake News, and all of that?!
Still kind of funny, though. And fun to think that there are 101 banjo jokes before it.
Yesterday's local paper, the Hartford Courant, had a letter to the editor asking, how many strings does a banjo have. The answer: five too many!
Does anyone have experience with Martin Faherty's instruments? I'm not finding anything online, except a post here describing him as one of the first builders. A friend found an octave mandolin...
Hello. You don't say specifically, so I'll ask: are you only looking for f-style mandos? I ask because Music Emporium has a Girouard A-5 for sale within your price range. It's stunning, and I...
A few threads down, the Mia mandolins are mentioned. No direct experience, but the videos sound pretty good. She does show one F2 type.
Okay, thanks. The bridge contouring is a really good idea that I never would have though of.
I'm noticing that some of the Eastman models now have a "comfort contour". But I can't find an actual explanation, either on their site or from any of the retailers. Based on pictures, it looks...
Apologies for hijacking this thread. After a bit of a mandolin hiatus, I'm casting about for an instrument, and the Eastman's fit my budget at the moment. An MD314 would be really cool, but seems...
So, fun coincidence that it was started by Mike Marshall, and it's held in Marshall, MI. Or did they rename the town after him?
I consider slow airs to be somewhat tricky on a mandolin, as opposed to a wind instrument or fiddle. My favourite Irish air is Mna ha'Eirinn (Women of Ireland), which works really well on a whistle,...
For Irish:
Na Connerys - done in the style of a seisun. Good mix of acoustic traditional instruments, including uillean pipes. All fairly common trad tunes
any by Matt Malloy - flute, usually with...
Apologies; I didn't mean to turn this into a seisun complaint session. As it turns out, I've had some very good experiences at seisuns when I've traveled. I think that it's just my local scene that...
One strategy is to learn some tunes that aren't so overplayed that everyone hates them, but are common enough that most seisun-goers will know them. It's also fun to have one relatively obscure tune...
My personal preference is for the octave mandolin. Partly because I just got a really nice one, but it's become my favorite instrument. I have a bouzouki, but for backup I use guitar, and for...
As a follow-up, I have gotten EasyABC installed under Linux. Needs to be run from the command line, but seems to be designed that way. Some dependencies for playing the music are missing, and also...
Keep in mind the scale length. An Irish bouzouki is typically around 25" or so, while an OM is from 20 to 24ish. I play one with a 23" scale, and find it comfortable, but on the edge. As I recall,...