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  1. Re: Is mandolin technique harder than other instruments?

    It might take 10,000 hours to get to "full competence" (whatever that means), but it only takes an HOUR to get better than you were an hour ago.

    Enjoy the journey.
  2. Re: What is your favorite summer festival to attend?

    The summer hat-trick for me is Wayne Henderson's party, Galax, and MerleFest.

    And there's Floyd Fest if you don't mind all the Birkenstocks and armpit hair.
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    Re: Best Speaker Gratuity Ever

    Warning: total aero engineer geek-out follows:

    Your avatar photo is actually the first (low pressure) compressor stage (in a high-bypass engine it's called the "fan")...the turbine section is in...
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    Re: You owe it to your mandolin (and yourself)

    Question for Joe:

    My cheapo Rover is the only mando I'll probably ever be able to afford (at least until the kids are grown) but I love it and, fortunately, I'm not at all tempted to replace...
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    Re: Playing by ear

    You've hit the nail on the head, Pete. Standard notation is almost an anachronism in our modern world. It was, of course, developed for the sole purpose of COMMUNICATING musical ideas at a time when...
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    Re: What you listening to? NOW!!!

    The "shuffle" on my ipod in the car coming home From work brought up Jason Mraz...Adele...Jamiroquai...Dwight Yoakam...and Moby.
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    Re: Dare I say this???

    I've always been a HUGE SRV fan...when I hear those tracks, I think to myself, "MAN that boy could wail...

    But the day I dug Electric Ladyland out of my mom's dusty stack and listened for the...
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    Re: Spacemonkey off to Afghanastan

    Maybe my screen name clues you in on the fact that I'm very familiar with OPSEC.

    For some reason, the original post struck me as being a little off and it pinged my poser-radar a little.

    On...
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    Re: Spacemonkey off to Afghanastan

    What unit? I might have some freinds who can keep an eye out for you.
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    Re: Do instructors over-emphasize fiddle tunes?

    Matter of fact, I once saw a You-tube instructional video from the well-known "Banjo Ben" (the first one of his I ever saw, actually) that illustrates my point perfectly.

    He starts-out the video...
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    Re: Do instructors over-emphasize fiddle tunes?

    Long thread and I don't really have an answer to the OP's original question ("why the lack of straight bluegrass instruction?").

    But, like a previous post said, BLUES is pretty much the only real...
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    Re: Siminoff book: Kindle version

    Just to clarify for everyone, I don't actually own a Kindle device. I use the Kindle for PC application on my Windows PC and also have an app for kindle books on my IPad. And return for refund is not...
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    Re: Siminoff book: Kindle version

    Actually, its the fixturing and tooling designs included in the Siminoff plans that I most regret not being able to see and use. At this point the actual instrument parts of the plans are secondary....
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    Re: Siminoff book: Kindle version

    Thanks, Grommet.

    I didn't mean to infer, with my "functionally useless" comment that I'm not enjoying the Kindle version...poor choice of words.
    I guess i wasn't aware (didn't bother to check)...
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    Siminoff book: Kindle version

    I made the mistake of making my first purchase of this book via Amazon in Kindle fomat...without first considering the issue of the drawingnset included with the hard copy version.

    Now that I've...
  16. Thread: Mas

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    Re: Mas

    Not that I don't feel that siren-call. My instrument store-owning buddy (he got me a good deal on my Rover) has a $9,000 Collings F that he took in on a trade. I've borrowed it overnight a time or...
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    Re: Mas

    Aside from the inherent vacuity of a guy who does a 10-minute commute in a $75,000 Mercedes (worst reliability records in the industry, BTW) or uses a $500 Japanese chef's knife to slice tomatoes......
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    Re: Galax ??????

    I kind of feel bad now that I didn't recognize that Clay Hess was sitting there, too...I'm a big fan.

    We locals are awfully proud of our little yearly party and I love to hear people say they had...
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    Re: Cost of F style?

    I own a $500 Rover and I can’t ever see being able to justify shelling out even a couple of grand for a “decent” instrument…I don’t make a living as a musician, and I don’t play well enough to notice...
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    Re: Galax ??????

    Me and my 11 year-old just got home from a short weeknight trip to Galax...he wanted to watch a couple of his buddies compete.

    We hit vendor's row first thing this afternoon to pick him up a...
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    Re: Roanoke, VA Fiddlefest

    Jeff, if you're going to Floydfest, you'll be able to sit in on the Sam Bush clinic on, I think, Friday.

    Maybe that will ease the pain of having to miss Sierra Hull :-)

    I'll be missing Floyd...
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    Re: Murder ballads

    "Little Sadie"

    "john Hardy"

    Dwight Yoakam's acoustic version of "Buenos Noches from a Lonely Room"
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    Re: RIP Amy Winehouse

    I'll second JourneyBear's sentiments and say that a lot can be learned about where this massively-talented and profoundly-troubled young woman was coming from by TRULY LISTENING to "Rehab".

    When...
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    Re: RIP Amy Winehouse

    I'll admit that I was a fan...when I first heard her I knew that she had a voice (and ear) that comes along only once in a while. I'm kind of bummed about the fact that we'll not be hearing form her...
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    Re: Walkin' the Bluegrass/ Old Timey line.

    The whole "difference between bluegrass and old-time" discussion vexes me because I've never seen the two terms as describing a "two sides of the same coin" paradigm.

    The term "bluegrass", at...
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