Excellent in salad
Type: Posts; User: Bill Baldridge
Excellent in salad
I think that they are all excellent cases. I went with the Hoffee. I think it is the most likely to survive being tossed out of a pickup doing 55mph. I have zero science to support that, but his...
You simply have to try different picks with the same mandolin. Every combination will get you a different sound, tone, and volume. To my ear, a BC TAD 50-3R has a fuller, smoother, deeper tone than...
29 October 2009. TAD 50. Still use it. Stash it between the strings above the nut. I do go to a 55 or 60 with a bevel if I want to hear myself in a bluegrass jam.
Add all of the classical players who play with banjo players to the "yes" column.:)
If I change from J74 to75s, how will it effect the setup?
I do not and would not. It looks like it is easy to tip over. I also do not have the $69 stand from Amazon. The difference may not be worth the cost, but the difference in design is enough to tell...
I do not and would not. It looks like it is easy to tip over. I also do not have the $69 stand from Amazon. The difference may not be worth the cost, but the difference in design is enough to tell...
Because other people have different tastes?
Thanks everyone. It feels like I am hearing the voices of mandolin lovers with a lot of technical knowledge. I hear you. I will not do anything to the top of my mandolin except dust it.
Having...
John, I am so pleased that you weighed in. One of my most trusted and respected voices at the Cafe. "Well, John said," always gets me in my comfort zone.
I have a favorite mandolin, seven years old with a lacquered black top. The appropriate value is $8,000. Over the years flaws in the finish have appeared (faded areas) that seriously affect my...
If a correlation was demanded, or even expected, between the ability of the owner and the quality of the mandolin, there would be three builders left in the world, because the rest would have starved...
I vote with Jimmy. It sounds like you may be wanting to give a better sounding experience as a wedding present. There are always exceptions, but the chances that the bride will recognize that you...
Thanks for all you have contributed. I tried to report what I experienced in a way that was true to my perceptions. Without data I was left to question my own subjectivity, so I finished with an...
Well said.
I agree in general with where you folks coming from, but it does have a limit. If there is a positive comparison, there is an implied negative one. I don't find all of my pick, string, bridge,...
Thanks to those who have responded. The conversation went where I hoped that it would: if, what, and how we hear changes to our instruments. Nothing here that I haven't read before over the years...
Thanks for your response. I am limited to a lay person's conceptual framework and vocabulary, so I appreciate your help. I see my speaker cone vibrate more as I turn the volume up and assume a...
Correctly or not, when I play standing, I am convinced that a tone-Gard releases volume by allowing the back, and to some extent the entire mandolin, to vibrate more freely than pressed into my...
I learned this trick here on the Cafe years ago. I have never had a strap come loose or even feel like it had a chance to come off. The beer was good too.
I took off EXP74s To try 11-40XTs on my Daley. I am only one day into the trial, but so far my experience matches yours right down to the "tubby" G strings. I want to give them a few days to see if...
Thanks, Mike
"Ted’s the only moderator I have met, when he was at the old downtown store before it closed. We both have a love of mandolins and a receding hairline. I think I have heard one of his talks, he let...
Thanks everyone. I think that we are through talking about Lloyd Loar or his pick.