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Hello Everyone, i'm reviving this thread with another question: Is there a reputable luthier/ repair person in East Tennessee that could address this issue as well as a string buzzing situation that...

Thanks. I'm gonna be careful for sure.

Thank you Rob for that counsel. I'll give that a try. It has turned into an interesting, above my paygrade, thread.

Thanks everyone for the valuable and generous responses. They have been that way since i took custodianship of it, which has been about 7years. It is something that I've learned to live with, yet was...

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I've had this mandolin for a number of years and wondered about the amount of bushing that is exposed. The machines are stable and there are no issues with tuning that I can tell. Is there...

I lost count of the measures.

I can empathize with the OP. Getting one's comments smacked about is no fun.
However here we go, someone here said, and I paraphrase, that price is what you pay(is measurable) and value is what you...

It seems to me to be an attitude that can be detected from outside. The difference between loving music and all that goes with it, and loving the fact that one loves it.
In the first case, it is...

I was born in central NY state. Then was raised in Buffalo NY., Arlington, MA., Lexington, MA., then on to Boulder, CO., then on to Seattle, WA. Now in East TN. Interesting thread.

Small world. I've also moved here from the Northwest. There is some beautiful country here. I will defer to others regarding where the best place for unconventional music is. Yes, people are...

Thanks chipotle, I didn't know about those two.

Hello Mandobart,
Welcome to TN. To my knowledge, unfortunately, there are no music stores in the Chattanooga area that have much in the way of mandolin content. There is a store in Dayton, about an...

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I had Big Joe replace the bridge on my Yellowstone with a Cumberland bridge. There was a dramatic improvement in tone and volume in the mid-range and highs and the bass was made a little less...

I wish I could, but for me also, it's been a teach yourself process, too.

That was really nice. Simple and with feeling. Thanks for posting.

Looks great. I had the opportunity to play a Heiden A-5. It was an amazing instrument, wish I had the funds...
Anyway, congratulations, it should be a keeper.

Thanks, that was great. In HS I had a musical director who had a habit of throwing music stands. Nobody ever got hurt, but it was dramatic.

I finally got around to replacing the felt. It was done with contact cement and a piece of leather, and it has worked out fine. Thanks for everyone's help

Hello Everyone,
That Clark A mandolin at Gryphon has caught my interest. Has anybody over there in Californialand played it? What's it sound like, etc. Thanks.
Don

Really interesting topic.
It seems to me that the topic highlights a situation that anyone, who ventures into a new domain faces, which is, 'you can't know something before you know it'.
In this...

Just to add my $.02 worth. I practiced, with a metronome, on open strings, for about 10-15 min a day, for about a year. Playing 1/4, 1/8, 1/16th notes, etc. Plus other combinations. It helped alot...

Hello Everybody,

I had the opportunity to attend the concert and mandolin workshop from Tim O'Brien last Friday and thought I'd write a few words about it.

Well, there were a few things that...

Thanks everyone for the replies. I'll go with removing it and gluing a piece of leather under there. It seems like an easy procedure. Yes, it would be a pain to strip the screws out. Thanks again. ...

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What's the best way to replace that small strip of felt that is on the Weber cast tailpiece on my Yellowstone. I was thinking of removing the tailpiece and gluing a new strip of felt or leather...

Thanks for posting the article, Scott.

I don't know anything about what has been done to the Stradivariuses over the years, but the article caused me to think that music and its' instruments are...