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I was at the festival and jammed with Scott in a good circle of pickers (did Blackberry Blossom, EMD and lots of other instrumentals). Great player, among others in the group, and lots of fun.

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The old zenith "tibet almond stick" was the inspiration of todays Fast Fret. It is a "scratch effacer" and furniture touch up stick and came in a cylinder tin. My dad alway had one in his guitar...

Tone is of course, subjective. What one finds interesting in tone even more subjective.

That said, my words to describe the tone of oval vs. f-holes (talking F4 and F5 here folks in which I have...

Joining this thread a little late. Facinating to hear all this from you guys who were there in the beginning. I have a bit of history with some of the players, but starting in the mid to late 80's...

Wow!
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The version I learned from is in E (the later one, I guess). On the fiddle I by far prefer D (lays out sooo nicely). On mando any ole key seems to work. My vocals work better in D as well, so unless...

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Sorry, couldn't resist! Cheers, mmm

My thoughts and condolences to friends, family and all those that Charlie inspired (I'm lucky to count myself in the latter group). A truely tragic loss for the mandolin community.

Mark McCay-Moran

Yep, the 1st-5th-7th fret thing is what I call "hawaiian mode." Pulling a few classic country licks out of yer bag (think Cliff Carlise with Hank Sr.) is great, but too much slidin' around at to root...

Yep, thats really it. Jerry does quite a few tunes in D tuning (DADF#AD) and since Oh Brother does one song in F tuning (Man of Constant Sorrow--just like G but whole step lower).

There are some...

Sheesh, I hate to be the one to take this one back on topic...

A few years ago my brother borrowed one of my fiddles (with a cheap bow) when I got it back it had a brand new cheap bow. He...

Huh? I thought that's who we were talking about.

Jill,
Round vs square: basically two different styles of playing with their own sound. Round played "spanish" position just like a guitar (sometimes *slightly* higher action to facilitate...

Mando is my #1 instrument, dobro my #2. Dobros are fun, fun, fun! Open G tuning is the standard GBDGBD (bass to treble) and that makes it easy to move the bar around to create major chords (open to...

Jesse McReynold does use this technique a lot and maybe at one point he used various fingers on his left hand. However, he now limits string splitting to his ring finger. He keeps that nail long(ish)...

Did a workshop jam with Joe Craven not long ago and he had his mando strung up that way. Pretty cool sound.

cheer, mmm

Many moons ago Pete Wernick put together a short lived "child-star" super group that had Hunter on fiddle, Josh on Banjo, (I believe) Clay Hess on guitar and, of course, Chris Thile on mando. These...

I have to disagree with the positive blueridge post earlier. Kinda like putting yer Gibson f-4 and f-5s in the closet for a brand spankin new Eastman. For the price point Blueridge aint a bad box,...

Hi Folks!
I've been listening to a new band lately--Crooked Still. In fact I'm addicted! I'm not sure how to catagorize them as they play traditional, old-timey, and bluegrass but with unusual...

First off when there's more than one mando in a session weird stuff can happen. Not bad stuff, just weird. When playing backup, the mandos prime role is to hit the backbeat chop. Wouldn't be...

I seem to remember that Melissa Monroe wrote this one. Good song.

Cheers, mmm

Welcome, Larry!

Glad to see you dropped by!

Cheers, mmm

Bramble, I'll be toting a mando, that should be a good tip ;)

Hey, I've got a few more mandolin cafe stickers around here somewhere. I'll try and find them and paste one across my forehead (or on...

Hi Jim! Interesting, the owner of Sugar Bowl is none other than... Bluegrass Philanthropist Warren Hellman! (of Hellman/Best Foods BTW...oh, there's the money connection!)

I know holiday time gets...

I'll be there! SF is my old stompin grounds and I'll be staying with friends in the City. I would love to get together for some jamming --Benig? In past years there haven't been many jams, I think...