Cheap tools are thrown away money. You buy. You try. You get mad. You buy good tool and throw away bad tool. Better yet, give it to someone you don't particularly like. This is a lesson my father...
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Cheap tools are thrown away money. You buy. You try. You get mad. You buy good tool and throw away bad tool. Better yet, give it to someone you don't particularly like. This is a lesson my father...
I have hearing aids in both sides. They can be blue tooth linked to my phone for hands free and also to a device called a TV link that streams the sound from the TV direct to your ears. This device...
True dat. The tax bite was less back then as well. For every $1 my dad made, .90 was his. My portion of my wages is less that .50 on the $1
Try Castro's Lounge on Tuesday nights. It's gypsy jazz but there is a fiddle player there, Leslie Dawn Knowles, who also does bluegrass. She would know more.
A whale might like that. As for me, not so much.
In the event of such a total collapse, a Russian guitar (AK47) would be more useful than a mandolin. Just sayin.
It was 4 months before I figured out that this was important and another 6 months to unlearn the bad habits i had ingrained. If you go DUDUDU on 8th notes and DDD on 1/4 notes you maintain the back &...
[QUOTE=Jon Hall;1294917]Gerard: In your previous post you wrote that a D played against a E maj produces an E7. I feel that when playing the G maj pentatonic over a D or D7, the C should be...
Pentatonic scales are huge. Most people never go beyond "what is a pentatonic scale?" Easy answer just lose the 4 and 7 notes. The real question IMHO should be "why is a pentatonic scale?" A...
Thad D note over an E chord turns the E into E7th. E7th leads to A. You just implied, faked, an entire chord with one note.
There are a lot of crazy new ideas floating around spawned by grad students' need to write a thesis. We have suffered through a number of "new" ways to teach math as a result of these theses. Notice...
Stewmac has a jig with a roller foot that you bolt the bridge onto and then roll it back and forth on the sandpaper. It keeps a constant angle. Look it over. It's not too hard to cobble a reasonable...
Bertram, That's not even art deco. That's just kitsch.
It's an oval hole instrument. It's going to sound more mellow than an f hole. It will never have the "bark" of a bluegrass mandolin. If that's what you call sounding old then that's what it is.
Very simple here. You pick up my mandolin without an invitation, our friendship is in peril. You start adjusting it retuning etc, your life is in peril. :(
You are from a guitar background. Guitar picks are different. They are thinner and pointier than mandolin picks should be. I play Golden Gate picks 1.5mm thick. Do not hold the pick parallel to the...
It's surely not an investment unless it is a Loar. The remaining arguments for keeping it at home are mostly negative. Either you have no talent, the instrument sounds bad, you have no musical...
Get it to where you can play it right and clean 10 times in a row. You are establishing multiple memory tracks of the tune that are all the same. This is how muscle memory comes. That's what my...
He is building only a handful of instruments in a year. It should not even take a week to saw up and shape all the parts for all those instruments. Neighbor is obviously full of hyperbole to...
I use that same line.:)):)):grin:
6 months and you can't do it yet? You have high expectations. It took me 2 years to get it together. I have an involuntary reduced hand span due to an industrial mishap. Try getting it together...
Find a music store that has mandolins. Try a few of them out. Get your fix and walk out.
Danke Bertram, Hab schon lange nicht das Lied gehoert.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
I got one made with a maple syrup can. Sounds real sweet. :)) :mandosmiley: