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Here's the review I wrote over at Amazon:

Imagine that you're in a small lesson room at your local music store. You're tuning up your mandolin waiting for your teacher to come in. The door opens...

John, Thank you for saying that. There are times I start to feel like everything I know about lutherie I learned by screwing up and fixing it. It's good to know that the "old timers" learn that way...

After watching that video I could only think : My Gosh! What a mind numbing job that would be.

I sure appreciate their strings, but I'd couldn't work there for more than a couple hours.

My students and I all believe that in hell mandolins are tuned with all A strings.

This book
http://www.amazon.com/David-G....&sr=1-1
has several, but not all, of them.

If I remember correctly it has the music for :
Blue Midnight
Pneumonia
Minor Swing
16-16
Dawg's Rag (I...

I played guitar for nearly 30 years before I started playing mandolin. I took one lesson from a teacher to have him check my technique and that was it. Everything else I've picked up from books, DVDs...

I respectfully disagree. My Breedlove has a radiused fretboard and I love it. When I play a flat fretboard mandolin it feels like there's a "dip" in the middle by comparison.

I really think that a...

Big Joe you're the best. I'll give her a call to double check the model number. I know the body is bound but the headstock is not but I thought the hardware was gold.

I'll give her a call to...

Hey Joe:

One of my mandolin students has a Gibson F5G and she lost one of the screws that holds the knob onto the tuning machine. I didn't see a replacement screw in the Stewart MacDonald catalog...

Oh My Gosh! Check out "Cuckoo's Nest" or "The Fox" on the first Nickel Creek Album. Monster chop.

We call those folks "Paper Trained" http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Until she wants to play by ear she won't do it. Perhaps you could bring her to a jam. It may...

You might be a mandolin player if:

You believe that in hell, mandolins are tuned with all A strings.

Thank you very much Steve. I'll send it in today.

I hope this is the right place to ask this question: I know that a lot of use use the Tabledit resources over at mandozine.com to learn mandolin tunes. Well I just transcribed a chorro piece in...

In going back through my old emails I see that I did miss Patrice's email that had some of the information in it. So that part of my frustration was my own fault.

As far as the pedagogy argument I...

I agree that if I had gone to their classes I could have heard them. But in the past two years they symposium made sure that each of the instructors had at least some time during the evening concerts...

Were we at the same symposium?

My opinion of this year's symposium is not as wonderful as other people's opinions.

I can understand that. But Mark and Carol are great people and it may be worth it just to stop into a friendly music store. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I totally disagree. At Acoustic Expressions you'll deal with nice people who won't rip you off. Ever since BB sold a 13 year old friend of mine a Johnson A style with a collapsing top and sky high...

You also get the chance to support the programmers who wrote the software. As a programmer, I can appreciate that.

As a mandolin, guitar, and banjo teacher I use Tabledit quite a bit. I like...

I agree, Evan is one of the best Duo-Style players ever. And he's also a really nice guy and an amazing teacher. I met him and studied with him at The mandolin Symposium this year. It took about 2...

I've built a dulcimer from lacewood. It sounded great. I've heard good things about guitars made from lacewood. Here's a couple of pics of my lacewood instrument
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I believe there's one in Owensboro Kentucky.

Found it!, here it is. The Bluegrass Museum

I agree with otterly2k. I like my Shubb. I know people who like Kysers but they're too big in my opinion and they seem to get in the way.

Also, with a Shubb, you can clip it on backwards (from the...

I use one of these

http://www.stewmac.com/catalog/images_1lg/1670_1lg.jpg

Then I stick on e of these in my cordless electric drill

http://www.stewmac.com/catalog/images_2lg/5326_2lg.jpg...