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Interesting on the pronunciation - I've always pronounced it hard G - altho the nickname seems to end up J sound - Jill. and now I'm kicking myself that I didn't make a point to go see her when she...

Sidebar maybe.... how 'bout limberjacks? I know of at least two parties out here who've been huntin' a limberjack craftsperson since their supplier died. Between the two of them they've a bit of...

I really can't remember a specific tune. We got a bundle of 45's with the record player when I was 4. Mom & Dad picked up 78's at the auctions. And I know we had a Flatt & Scruggs album along with a...

as performed by Paul Bunyan? The size would fit I'm thinkin'.

reminds me of the discussion about tone-guards....

Also Haymarket in Lincoln. Just be considerate to traffic (and other musicians/acts) during Farmer's Market. I've played MD down there with no problem.

Another venue you may not think of, is the...

Sounds like Thile & Nickel Creek have at least a little to answer to...

Back sometime before 9/11, I'd been having some marital problems, started listening to a country station at work, as opposed...

Chieftains - Down the Old Plank Road, and Further Down the Old Plank Road
The Arkansas Traveler - tunes from the Little House on the Prairie books
Am I Born to Die? - Chipper Thompson & Mason Brown...

I chose mando over guitar in the first place because "everybody" plays guitar. Not that there's not some excellent guitar players out there - Chet Atkins, Mother Maybelle, Santana, Eddie Van Halen,...

I started out as self-taught - with the Casey book & CD. However I got frustrated with my (perceived) lack of progress (when I compared it to how I was doing on the dulcimer). Timing was right and...

Short answer - what do you like to listen to? - play that. What do you like to play on the guitar? Learn the mando version. The one thing I enjoy about playing music in general - you don't HAVE to...

I'm with Paula. I've aged as much in the past several months coming to grips with/making the decision and getting things started as I did it the previous five years.


What's with the Thile & the...

In the movie Van Helsing, there's a piece that's going on during what I call the "chase scene" - driving the decoy coach across the side of the mountain - beautiful piece, sounds like it's mandolin...

My mando teacher, not yet. I'd never met the guy before the first class - and it was a group situation. I'm almost intimidated more by some of my fellow students. At least two of them have...

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If you happen to see a Sweet Pea sharing chair space with a mountain dulcimer in the jam tent, the body attempting to keep up with the chord changes...

I'll agree with those who are telling you to play or sing NOW, and not wait 'til after the birth.

In spite of being married (or maybe because of it...

Ira,

Those are harp guitars. #Friend of mine at a radio station was cleaning out some of their unplayed cds and passed on a couple of a harp guitar player. #They sound about like the name. I'd...

Larry,

No offense. If it was a more "usual" instrument, I likely wouldn't be playing it ;)

One of the other names for it is "lap" dulcimer - it's more often played on the lap than upright,...

Roger,

Hope you make it to Lincoln again. That Hussie house concert was a blast!


... and if any of ya'll ever get to hear them live ... see if you can get them to up the tempo on "Mummies"....

Larry,

Don't completely overlook the mountain dulcimer. It sees quite a bit of the Celtic/folk/traditional, and I know of folks who've used them in a Ren-Faire setting as well. Flatpick,...