I think what you use different instruments for might make a difference. An instrument that is played more aggressively might benefit from a slightly higher action, for example. A bluegrass...
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I think what you use different instruments for might make a difference. An instrument that is played more aggressively might benefit from a slightly higher action, for example. A bluegrass...
Really glad your surgery is working out for you. It's tough when arthritis starts slowing you down, as I know first "hand" at age 76. Sounds like once you're fully recovered it will be a new...
I've pulled some information together on a nice Martin employee mandolin I've had for a few years now. It was built in 1919 and is closest to the Style D of the standard-run flatbacks of the era. ...
Hard to find much on the Vega guitars with a similar bulging top. This site:
https://www.guitarbench.com/2010/06/vega-style-b-cylinder-guitar-from-the-top-shelf-scott-freilich/
seems to...
Gregg - I watched a few of the videos about the museum. Fantastic stuff! You've acquired some incredible instruments and obviously some international fans. It's really great that you've gone to...
This is just nerdy speculation (a thing that happens whe Gregg and I communicate with each other), but when I looked at the image of the banjo lute that Gregg linked to, my first reaction was...
Gregg: No, I hadn't seen that. It's the first intact one I've ever seen. Of course, you, Banana, and Rick get mentioned. Pat Sky may be someone who you didn't know but his work on tracing Elias...
Jim - Yeah, I've seen pictures of those. I think they were a fair bit later than the original cylinder back mandos. Is that your impression?
Think I found the subtitles function. It provides a nice written version of the video about "how warm" mandolins.
Thanks very much, Hank. It's comforting to know that people are making it all the way through. It's a lot of information. I tried to make it more engaging than just me talking by using a lot of...
The spoken text isn't written down anywhere. I did have some notes on cards but mostly just winged it. I don't know of any way to extract transcripted text from the video. If someone else does,...
I know it's been ages since I've posted here and I've mostly been playing guitar these past few years -- but not entirely. I recently started messing around with my Howe-Orme mandolins and decided...
Big Waterloo/Collings fan. Count me in !
Our Goldendoodle, who we lost earlier this year, was named Tremolo. When people asked my why, I said that the only way I'd ever have a tremolo that anyone would admire was if I had a good looking...
Very generous offer. Someone will be getting a very special Christmas present.
Cool! Count me in.
Without a serial number it will be really hard to know that a given mando is "the one." Maybe someone will know the history of their mandolin well enough to trace it back to the 1989 sale. If you...
Interesting finding. My conclusion, based on this report, is that ultrasound can increase the rate of left-handedness. But that's a long way from the conclusion that left handedness is...
This.
Mandola scale lengths vary quite a bit. Use this as a starting point and then position the bridge so that the note when fretting at the 12 fret matches the pitch of the harmonic at the 12th...
Do you have a citation for this? It doesn't fit at all with my understanding of hand dominance or neuroplasticity. I'd be happy to revise my understanding of these issues if there's credible...
The plainer one Jim mentioned looks pretty much the way it should. The fretboards were no longer elevated by that serial number, as best as I can tell. The earlier one has all of the problems...
Well, as others have already noted, the one with the "adjustable" bridge is certainly not original (bridge and tailpiece wrong) and the description is incorrect in a couple of respects (the "E H Co"...
What a fascinating thread! When I think of ragtime, players like Rev. Gary Davis or Blind Blake come to mind more readily than Scott Joplin (although his compositions are outstanding, to be sure). ...
Well, it's a small, specific thin but it's proved to be a great tip -- how to wind strings when changing them. I learned here to wrap the string around the post and then pass it through the hole in...
Another vote for the LS-10. I've gotten excellent results using it with a mini-tripod. It's rugged, compact, versatile, and the recording quality is excellent.