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    Re: Irish tenor banjo

    Just in case you do decide to shop "over the pond", I bought my 17-fret 20" scale tenor from https://www.andybanjo.com/ about three years ago. I bought the cheapest model he had at the time as the...
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    Re: What's your latest Welsh tune?

    If you haven't found it already ... http://www.pibgorn.co.uk/ is a good place to start :)
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    Re: New Mandolin Learner

    If you're a "work from a book" type person, "Sully's Irish Banjo Book" is a great source of arrangements for a GDAE-tuned instrument. In case you didn't know, an "Irish" tenor banjo is tuned the same...
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    Re: What's your latest Welsh tune?

    John Tose' tunebook http://www.mochpryderi.com/Resources/Tose%20200%20Tunes.pdf is a useful resource for Welsh tunes. The music is designed to be played on the pibgorn (hornpipe) so the tunes have a...
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    Re: Unwanted Resonance

    I tried curing this problem with a strip of leather ... something in the leather caused the thin strings to rust and snap (after a few months)

    Now I use strips of high density foam plastic trimmed...
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    Re: Tunes Written for Solo Mandolin?

    Nigel Gatherer http://www.nigelgatherer.com/ has a wealth of Scottish-orientated arrangements available ... have a dig around ;)

    The original forum had a crash last year some time and some links...
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    Re: Tunes Written for Solo Mandolin?

    More or less anything arranged for the "Irish" banjo ... check out "Sully's Irish Banjo Book" if you can find a copy. Whilst written by a "champion" banjo player principally for the banjo, he does...
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    Re: Leather Cord in the Strings?

    I fitted strips of leather to a couple of instruments, all in good faith and with good results, until, after a while, strings started to break for no apparent reason. The first one or two were put...
  9. Re: Two renaissance dances (Erasmus Widmann, 1613)

    Nicely played, and thank you for the pdf link, there's some nice tunes there :)
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    Re: Tool for filing nut slots

    Shock - horror!! I use a serrated bread/fruit knife for the thin slots and an appropriate hacksaw blade in the thicker slots. I've done several guitars, a banjo and a couple of mandolins like this...
  11. Re: What is a typical width of the neck of a mandolin?

    If the O.P. is simply collecting numbers to get an overall view, here's a couple of sets.

    My "Blue Moon" generic economy-model tear-drop shaped flat-back has a neck width at the nut of 1 5/16"...
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    Re: non-mandolin question - playing the spoons

    Maddy Prior, vocalist with band "Steeleye Span", uses spoons to great advantage on many of her tracks :mandosmiley:

    I feel there is a difference to be drawn between "spoons", literally two metal...
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    Re: Playing for a year, still a beginner

    If you can read music, there's a hatful of freely available sheet music available for downloading that'll get you started.

    My favourite source of "limited range" (not limited difficulty) tunes is...
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    Re: Learn to read music?

    Having taught myself to read music relatively recently, after 40+ years of thrashing out chords, I've managed to apply this new-found skill-set across a gamut of melody instruments, woodwind and...
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    Re: Tenor banjo/guitar or bari uke string/tuning?

    "Celtic/folk" covers a very wide base !! Many Irish-style jigs and reels etc. were probably first written for the fiddle, so the fingering on a 5th's-tuned instrument can often feel "natural" if...
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    Re: Tenor banjo/guitar or bari uke string/tuning?

    I bought a baritone ukulele so's I could tune it GDAE (an octave down from a mandolin). I like the overall range within such a compact instrument. As yet I can't really justify the asking price for a...
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    Re: Looking for folk punk mandolin

    Not quite sure about "folk punk", but in their relatively short existence Flibbertigibbet http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2278 included a bit of up-tempo mandolin work in some of their...
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    Re: Building sets

    Thanks for mentioning this resource. I was unaware of it, Googled it and will now be occupied for some time to come (once I've printed them out) :)
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    Re: Building sets

    I'm no expert on the matter, but Nigel Gatherer, who knows a thing or two about mandolin music in particular, has some publications on the subject here...
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