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    Re: Cittern nut width?

    All of these scale lengths are shorter than a typical mandocello, but I offer this for what it is worth.

    1 5/8" on a 15" scale tuned D G D A E, built by David Freshwater in Scotland;
    1 5/8" on a...
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    Re: How can a Breedlove breed more love?

    Good enough reason. Excellent, in fact. I have a Breedlove Columbia, an oval hole, K-style body. The looks caught my attention; the sound enamored me to it.

    I do find the sunburst on the dark...
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    Re: Players who inspired you take up the mandolin

    Can't precisely name them, but can narrow it down. Either John Paul Jones or Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin (maybe it was both at one time or the other) and either Clarence White or Gene Parsons of...
  4. Re: Multi-Instrumentalist Collaborations You Would Love to See Ha

    Chris Hillman, Gene Parsons, and Al Perkins
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    Re: Where to buy in Eastern Canada

    Is Daunt Lee still making his Minstrel line of instruments in Newfoundland?

    Ron
  6. Re: Multi-Instrumentalist Collaborations You Would Love to See Ha

    Maybe I am not familiar enough with some of the people mentioned here, but I know some of these folk as being virtuosos on one instrument as opposed to quite remarkable on a number of instruments. ...
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    Re: Why did you start playing a cbom?

    Having played mandolin since the late 1970s, I was familiar with the mandola and mandocello. A little over a decade ago, in search of new tones and textures I could bring to a session, I began...
  8. Re: Multi-Instrumentalist Collaborations You Would Love to See Ha

    Wow! There is an impressive array of folk who could show up in this thread. Ed has gotten this launched with a good start. I'd be interested in hearing what David Lindley, Darrell Scott, Scott...
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    Re: Cittern tuned GDADG - recordings?

    This is not an ensemble setting, but Doc Rossi's 'Celtic Cittern' instructional book, readily available on e-Bay, comes with a CD (solo), and the book is tabbed for a GDADG tuning. It is not quite...
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    Re: OM's and Mandolas

    The waldzither is most notably associated with Germany. I have read that the Swiss have a similar instrument called a halszither. The waldzither is traditionally tuned C GG cc ee gg - a banjo...
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    Re: What is this chord(s)?

    For the Gsus, try 0 0 3 3 . For Csus, go with either 0 3 3 0 or 0 2 3 1. There are, of course, numerous variations on further up the neck.

    Ron
  12. Thread: DGBE tuning

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    Re: DGBE tuning

    Another way of looking at it is that you are tuning a tetrachordo Greek bouzouki up one step. The Cc Ff aa dd tuning of the Greek bouzouki with roughly a 26.5" scale could easily translate to a...
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    Re: Free V-Picks - Right Here

    I've used guitar picks all these years. It would be interesting to observe changes, if any, by using a mandolin pick. Thanks for the opportunity (if the luck of the draw falls my way).
  14. Thread: Mandoquin

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    Re: Mandoquin

    Dean Guitars attempted to touch this market with the mondomando, a 9-string 6-course instrument with narrow nut width and guitar tuning. Theirs seemed more a quasi-octave mandolin with guitar...
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    Re: Where to buy a cittern.

    Big Leaf Mandolins was formerly Road to the Isles, built by Stan Pope. I have not handled many citterns, but the Road to the Isles model I bought used off eBay is a respectably constructed...
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    Re: Mandolin popularity: nadir or zenith?

    Like others, I am not getting as many questions as to what that little guitar is as I was 35 years ago. On the other hand, I was in a Sam Ash in northern Illinois over last weekend and dared to ask...
  17. Thread: Breedlove

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    Re: Breedlove

    I have a Breedlove Columbia from around 2006 - K body style, oval hole - which I am very happy to have. I am not looking for another mandolin. I do not play it exclusively, but predominately. For...
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    Re: Mandocello Performances

    I played around with a mandocello several years ago after hearing it played mainly as an alternate to a bass behind the Americana stylings of a singer/songwriter. In the hands of the owner, Eric...
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    Re: 5-course, tell me about yours?

    I have four 5-course instruments, three of which you are likely interested in (one is 7-stringed), two of which I feel qualified to speak of.

    9247592476

    The one I use most frequently was made...
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    Re: 14 String Bandollia?

    Could it be a variant of the bandurria, spelled with an accent? The bandurria comes out of Spain with typically 12 strings tuned in fourths. The Philippines have a 14-string version. My best...
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    Re: Greek airport conversation

    Roger,

    I think it was you who related a story from an early Zoukfest where you were teaching an Irish bouzouki class wherein there were nine instruments in the room and seven different tunings. ...
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    Re: Greek airport conversation

    If I am not mistaken, the Greeks generally tune the tetrachordo bouzouki as CFAD, a step lower than stated above. Is the DGBE is common among users in the Irish tradition? DGBE certainly makes for...
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    Re: 6 string mandolin

    Think in terms of a 12-string guitar. It has a G string typically in the 009 to 010 range. They are often replaced. But in answer to your question, you can probably tune the E string as high as G...
  24. Re: Beginner in much need of advice! Baglama or Tzouras?

    Stuart,

    I am not as knowledgeable as I'd like to be here, but I did some research on these things before I bought my bouzouki. The tzouras is smaller by a significant amount but is tuned the same...
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    Re: Greek Bouzoukis for Irish Music

    I am assuming the Bouzouki World you are referring to is headed by Pavlos (Paul) Kakouris. I got a tetrachordo, low on soundboard bling, 40 stripe Sakis from him about 2003 and was quite satisfied...
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