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I'm usually at the other end of the stage, to get as far from amp as possible. Don't remember the amp settings.

I've a Collings MT2 with a Schertler DYN-M-SET mandolin p-u and I've great problems w the feedback. I play it through an amp for acoustics instruments but have to keep the volume down to avoid...

I've gigged crowded pubs using mics but with no success. Direct boxes are rare. My option is to plug into small guitarcombos like Fender Blues Jr. Would that be possible with Radius or Fishman being...

What's the difference as for sound and bark between f holes and oval holes? I play fingerstyle mando and look for an alternative to my MT2 Collings.

Roger Tallroth of swedish folkmusic "supergroup" Vasen, uses ADAD as his "standardtuning" on 12-string guitar, tenorguitar, mandolin, mandola etc.

Check the group for some high-speed string...

I play fingerstyle mandolin and have been playing for some 8 - 9 months now, due to a severly strained right shoulder which prohibited me from playing any instrument that involved right arm motion....

I play fingerstyle mandolin and it works sursprisingly well with traditional folkmusic, for instance Santa Lucia.

Mark,

I'm not debating whether Django used a flatpick or not, merely that flatpicked gypsy swing on mando sounds harsh and nondynamic to my ears. Could be that flatpicked mando still bears too...

Anyone doing fingerstyle gypsy swing mando out there? As a fingerstyleplayer I've recently started to develop a Django-sort of vibrato and it sounds great. Makes me want to research the gypsy swing....

Does the Oval and D-holes on gypsy mandolins make any improvement to tone and resonance?

Just curious if anyone out there have had the opportunity to try out the JPCharles Bandolim and how it is compared to a standard mandolin: louder? more resonant? different tone? playability? etc and...

I love the MT. Plays like butter, sounds divine. Best buy for money, to my mind. But I need a mandolin with a mike. A mando that sounds and plays atleast aswell as the MT. Should I get another MT or...

Have just listened to East Virginia Blues and that's one of the ways how I fingerpick the mandolin. First time I dared to play mando in a public jam (actually only a few weeks after I first picked up...

Got to check that out. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Just found this clip of Radim Zenkl:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63FWu8d-rQ&mode=related&search=

This is basically the same technique but I use it for all different kind of styles (even mando...

Probably true. My mandoplaying have helped my guitarplaying a lot. I approach the guitar differently today. Maybe the initial two questions are just two sides of the same coin and answered by the...

No finger-picks. I even fingerpick my tin-axe ('31 National Triolian resonatorguitar w 0.15 on top) when I play bottleneck.

I'm just a learner trying to make some sense why mandoplaying...

Don't know if there's something like fiddle/mando gene. When I was like 8 years old my musicteacher suggested my parents that I should pick up the fiddle, that I had a real talent for music. Which I...

I play a new Nat vintage brass mando alongside a Collings MT. The Nat has a slightly longer and wider neck. It's loud if you want to, and subtle if you want to. Works better Live than in the studio....

Yeah, I'd like to know aswell. Very happy with my Collings MT, it would be interesting to know what instrument (model/ make) to go for in the future.

Just let me second that opinion. Late Nov I found myself bringing my Clapton-Martin to my luthier to have some buzz taken care of. While waiting I caught eye with a '28 Gibson A-mando with a warped...

Cheers Jerry! I finally found it. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

I've A Collings MT Custom A-mando, which is a great player and works well in the studio. And I've a new National Reso-mando which is a loud and proud live-mando that competes well with other loud...

Got a MT Custom A-model from Mandolin Brothers in December. Great looking and great playing. But I can't find the serial no on the mando (says A1012 on the invoice). Neither on the head nor printed...

I teach guitar but some of my students asked for a mando-introduction. We've been covering some old time music and some blues and early jazz-stuff but I need urgently a few suggestions for cd's that...