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I’ve had good experience with House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park - https://hmtrad.com/pages/repairs

Has anyone played one of these? I’m most curious how similar they feel to a normal mandolin, particularly the right hand/arm position. Is it close enough that it is a good practice instrument if you...

I think if you survey instruments out there in the market, 1 1/8” nut width is the most common, so I would suggest sticking with that if you want to appeal to the most customers.

As for your...

I have started accompanying a friend that plays guitar and sings. If it is just the two of us, and he is playing various strum patterns on the guitar, what are the best ways to complement that with...

I Want My Dog Back is by the Spinney Brothers

Would you ever consider making more of those and selling them?
I have been thinking of a similar project (inspired by https://travelerguitar.com/pages/acoustic), but I don't know that I have the...

I have taken both - MM for about 4 or 5 years, and recently Peghead for the last year or so. Here's how I would compare the two (+ for pros, - for cons):

MM:
+ Lots of great material
+ Personal...

I would second the recommendation of the Tottle book. While it is an overall mandolin book, he has several cross picking tunes (including Wildwood Flower) and a discussion of the technique - enough...

Another (former) cellist here - I don't think a cello makes a useful substitute for a bass. Not to say you shouldn't play it, particularly if you can add some bowed sustained notes to back up the...

I've been working at a cross picking for awhile, and one of the problems I had was that without an accompaniament I would sometimes fall into a triplet pattern after a few measures, which would cause...

It is unfortunately out of print and copies don't come up very often, so they can be expensive, but not usually quite that expensive. If you keep an eye out, you should be able to find one in the...

In addition to the section of Tottle's book (which is a great starting point), Andy Starman has a whole book devoted to Jesse McReynolds and crosspicking in the Bluegrass Masters series. It is hard...

I once had the chance to play one of these travel cellos - http://travelcello.net/ - and I have always wondered if the same idea could be applied to a mandolin. The key features are (1) wooden...

Second the vote on a strumstick.
http://www.strumstick.com/html_pages/history.html

Today is Jesse's 86th birthday - do some pickin' (or even better cross pickin') today in his honor!

Seeing him in a live concert was what inspired me to start playing mandolin, and it still...

Another one is Arlingtonfretworks.com. Daniel works out of a shop in his house.

There have been a number of great players that played both (Ricky Skaggs and Jesse McReynolds both come to mind - Ricky played fiddle for Emmylou Harris for awhile and Jesse has put out solo albums...

some info from the interview published in andy statmans book (1979):
"the one I am using right now is a Winn...Up till now I used a converted F4...On the old Epic things I used a regular F5.

I...

I got a very similar mandolin recently - a Collings MT with bass side f hole crack that had been professionally repaired. Price was $3-400 less than market because of the repair, and the sound...

You are right - my mistake. He's also a killer mandolin player. Some guys get all the talent:)

Jesse McReynolds comes to mind as an example of a mandolin player in a "classic" group who wasnt the tenor (jim was the higher voice).

Mike Muggino of the Steep Canyon Rangers is a mando player...

i use mobilesheets and have been happy. files are stored as pdfs and can be linked to audio files.

Another great version is from jim and jesse with some beautiful cross picking. If anyone has transcribed that version, I'd love to get my hands on it!

As a followon to lenf12's comment, you may be straightening your fingers rather than lifting them. If you straighten your finger as a way to get it off the string that can cause the tip of your...

I have a kentucky KM 350 that was my first mandolin. I upgraded to a collings last year so the kentucky needs a new home. As others have said, the kentuckys are great first instruments.
Send me an...