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Gives tap tuning an entirely new meaning!

Looks really great Ken.

Great looking mandolin!

neck is pulling, might be a costly repair

I hear you. I have basically been away from my mandolin for 4 out of 5 weeks due to work related travel that is not amenable to mandolin companionship :( So I am working on music theory.

sounds great! Enjoy it for a good long time!

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A cheap Romainian A style. Sold it to get a Kentuck 150s. This in turn was sold once I got my Laura Ratcliff A5.

That's it for me. Can only play one at a time anyway.

Neck pulling? Are the specks along the neck-headblock joint?

Concrete walls help keep the sound transfer to a minimum. I have never heard any complaints from any neighbours. My wife's greatest complaint is that I don't play enough for her, so I am working on...

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Happy Birthdays Scott and Mike! Plentiful chocolate and wine to all!

What style of music are you most interested in?

its going to take me two decades at least :D

Another thing that helps is to work at playing FASTER than the target speed. Its probably similar to tremolo practice in fact, but I will set my metronome to saw 120 bpm (2/4) and just work on...

700 series The Loars have a more V shaped neck than the lower models

Andrew Collins once said to me "Can you tremolo? Then you can play fast." Just have to get the left and right hands coordinated. Slowly push your metronome up a click each day and sneak up on fast.

It in my lap

Wow, very informative of his pick grip that pic!

Heh.

But first, learn the names of notes on the staff, then on your fretboard. Best way to do the latter is learn some major key scales (G, C, D to start) and call the notes off as you play them....

Yeah you can get them in the used market, but they do not come up often. Got to be patient.

Sorry Don, Jim just played all the tone out of it.

Wow is all I can say. For a brand new instrument to sound like that? Wow.

Stunning

Congrats! Play it and think of your mom for a very long time

Here is an example of what I would consider a really woody tone, from an Apitius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dBHWS5z2E

Elsewhere on the Cafe folks have described "woody" has being the sound of whacking on a hollow log. You want the sound of the strings of course, but with "woody" tone those strings are directly...