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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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...
If you haven't found it already ... http://www.pibgorn.co.uk/ is a good place to start :)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nicely played, and thank you for the pdf link, there's some nice tunes there :)
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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) :)
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...