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Hello,

Although this is a little off topic, i thought this would be the best place to post.

I'm an English teacher for a public elementary school in South Korea, and trying to bring a little...

Thanks,

The Lawrence Smart article was helpful and I have seen it before. I'm guessing if i have the scale length for the mandocello and the scale length and the rest of the measurements for a...

I want to build an f5 scroll style mandocello, but don't know where to get the plans. Can anyone send me the specs or point me in a direction where i can find them.

thanks

chad

is there anything that you can do to lessen the symptoms other than surgery?

I'm only 25 and have been playing mandolin for about 10 years. I have this type of pain as well... numbness in the...

hey jim, is the back of the peghead also covered by an ebony veneer? Do you have a picture?

tofu

I always check the yard sales, i found an Arthur Godfrey Martin baritone Uke for 30 bucks, and traded it in at Elderly for a nice chunk of change to fund my 1st mandolin.

I am debating which cast tailpiece i should put on my new mandolin i'm building. I know there are quite a few makers that do a good job. Monteleone, price, allen, weber... but i want to know what...

Thanks for the help, the musicianshealth site is informative. I'll start doing these stretches.

I don't know what to think of this, but i heard that stradavarious would soak his wood in ##### for a period of time and somehow this changed the sonic properties of wood?!?!? Sounds like an urban...

I am having trouble with my left forearm cramping up and becoming painful as well as my hand cramping and becoming painful at the pinky tarsal and metatarsal bones. Does anybody else have this and...

Four out of the seven players i know play Stiver mandolins. One plays about a ten year old F model and bought it with the idea that this would be the last mandolin he would buy. I have played it and...

does anybody know about newson mandolins and reputation/sound?

chad

i have been looking at the makers of siren, givens, lebeda, laurel, holoubeck, and newson for moderately priced mandolins. Does andbody have any feedback or input on any or all of these mandolins?
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do they sell the flattop G and D strings seperately? (since the a string breaks so often) and i wonder what kind of life the Thomastics get? someone told me they change their Thomastics out about...

thanks for the suggestions everyone, i think the D'addario flattops are the ones i'm going to try.

hippo

hi,
yeah i'm a first time builder with a stewmac mandolin kit... i was cutting the scroll and... whoops, it doesn't line up with the body on the back side, but it does on the front. Has this...

I'm curious to try flatwound mandolin strings. Does anybody have some insight on flatwound mandolin strings?

I am building my first mandolin from a stewmac mandolin kit. I am going to put on a radiused fingerboard, and wider frets than the traditional. I played a friends mandolin with a 6" radiused...