Ok, now you've got me wondering what your original guess was??
Type: Posts; User: Pete Summers
Ok, now you've got me wondering what your original guess was??
All string instruments are imperfect by their very design and the laws of acoustics. And sounding "good" is entirely subjective. Certainly with mandolins perhaps more than other instruments, set-up...
For what it is worth, I've had 3 rogues and two Rover RM50s over the years. I agree the Rover is a cut above the Rogue but not 5 cuts above it as the price is. The only one of those five I owned that...
Don has the solution. The clear plastic pickguard is the obvious answer - cheap, effective, virtually invisible and easily removed. Buy a whole sheet on Ebay, cut it to the shape you want and press...
As noted by others, the Dean F style is a laminate (i.e., plywood) instrument. The A model is solid wood and will have much better sound, even though the Dean may look splashier. The only $300 F...
I have a Gretsch New Yorker Supreme all mahogany. I like it for what I play (mostly some ragtime and some old-time solo with occasional guitar accompaniment). You are right, it is quieter than the...
Perhaps my choice of words was poor -- I didn't mean that I feel sympathy for thieves so much as pity (and I certainly didn't mean to hijack this thread).
But anyone who feels the need to steal...
I think you mean 1709 -- Stradivari was born in the 1640's. I did not know he made guitars at all so I've learned something on this thread. Now I'm wondering if he made mandolins too? Can't find any...
Yep, I agree. Not to get self-righteous about it, but I always feel bad for thieves because of the sense of deprivation and poverty they must feel that makes them into thieves -- this excludes those...
Interesting stories here. Mine is probably much less so. For me, I had know idea what a mandolin even was until in my late 20s when I happened to stumble across an imported bowl back in a TG&Y store...
Excellent advice. I would just add a number 6. Learn to hold the instrument correctly. It's not a small guitar so it can't be held like most people hold a guitar. Check the Mike Marshall video on...
I don't know the tune, but, unless my eyes deceive me, I count 4 points on that mandolin. Very beautiful.
I would tell myself to take lessons from a good instructor immediately -- most of all, learn music theory and scales early, no matter how boring it is ... devote some time on every practice session...
As a quick fix, loosen the strings and measure the distance from the nut to the 12th fret - then measure the distance from the 12th fret to the point the strings cross the bridge. Those measurement...
Count me in. I love it. But then, I am and have always been a jazz fan. Not so much a bluegrass fan, though I like it in small doses. I could listen to this kind of jazz all evening.
Anything new...
I have one just like that one. The patent design was 1914. They were pretty common in the 20s and 30s I think. Solid birch wood, I believe, 13 inch scale (like a bowlback or fiddle), not overly loud...
Absolutely no financial interest with this company, but I have one of these two pointed models shown here. Being an admirer of cheap instruments (I've owned 4 Rogues and numerous other species of...
I definitely don't think your friend's experience is typical. I have owned two RM50s, one from Ebay, the other from Elderly. Both were (and still are) excellent. Certainly purchasing from Elderly or...
I'm guessing that would also be a laminate instrument. If you don't need an F style, I'd look at the Rover RM50 all wood, carved A style at Elderly for about $150 set-up (nfi). I have an all black...
The "Mel Bay Deluxe Bluegrass Mandolin Method," I think it is called, by Ray Valla has some excellent mandolinish arrangements of about 30 common fiddle tunes and comes with a cd that is quite good...
Not to put too fine a point on it, I think what David L. was responding to is the implication that anyone who doesn't like this particular style of mandolin playing is stupid and just "doesn't get...
Evidently this is the case: I hear the 8000Hz faintly, but the 12000 is much more pronounced -- on my computer anyway.
Maybe this guy doesn't actually want to sell it. Maybe he took it on consignment, found out he liked to play it and wants to hang on to it until the "elderly" lady he got it from croaks and he gets...
I'm wondering if the Frank Ford method of stringing (www.frets.com) would hold the string on the post without a hole? He wraps the string over itself and when tightened to pitch, it looks to me like...
Thile makes a point of noting that anatomy will influence pick hold. It certainly does. The "between thumb and curled index finger" hold may be the "right" way to do it, but certainly not the only...