Here in northern NJ, there are Goodwill stores: used, donations, recycled-type stuff, largely clothing but...
They often have nylon-shell briefcases & backpacks for $8 to $20, and many of those...
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Here in northern NJ, there are Goodwill stores: used, donations, recycled-type stuff, largely clothing but...
They often have nylon-shell briefcases & backpacks for $8 to $20, and many of those...
Forgive me if I plagarize myself from another recent thread, responding to the OP's thanks for helpfulness ...
... and to those who run the Cafe and make it work so well, where simple comments are free to cascade into a musical & cultural dissertation.
One again, this place reminds me of Forest's box of...
So, I checked in here just to see comments that might have been added. While browsing, I clicked on my Ian & Sylvia link above, playing in the background while I read your thoughts. But that...
Fortunately for us, there's plenty of guitar-porn still out there!
Indeed they do ... nice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjoByUJbPQ
Of course, I may be a bit prejudiced by six decades of familiarity (even if I couldn't find a video real quick!) ......
As a long-time fan of Ian & Sylvia (see my signature!), I was tickled to see "V'la La Bon Vent" in the book of Canadian folks songs. as they performed it on their 2nd album, Four Strong Winds, of...
FWIW, my original Roland Cube (5W, 5" speaker, selection of amp models + effects, 12-15 y/o) was a bit over $100, then, and sounds great w/ solid-body mandolin.... IMHO, of course! Loud enough for...
A: A device to generate business for physical therapists & chiropractors.
Emphatic YES!!
Plus, it took some time to learn what "holding the pick loosely" is supposed to feel like, allowing it to angle down on the upstrokes while still not, ya know, flying across the...
In 16 years of avidly reading here and elsewhere, I've never heard that before. Not disputing the thought OR arguing violin-family design (I know nothing!) but... any comment on why?
FWIW, I just...
I suspect the point is that they don't quite exist! The trick (in our real world) is to get the string thin enough that the "dead" zone at each end is such a tiny percentage of the vibrating length...
I started to comment on Paul Hostetter and his website, but decided that it needed it's own thread.
And yeah, Tri-Flow has become my bestest buddy: works great on odd stuff like vinyl storm...
I am SO happy to see that Paul Hostetter's website is again available; when I last looked 5 or 6 months ago, it was not. It's a wonderful resource, and he was a frequent poster here.
IIRC, his...
If you bought it new, maybe a waranty issue? If it's 20+ years old, that might be just old enough for machine oil to polymerize and become sticky, causing a button to break. It does happen. I have...
Congratulations on a well-thought out first step! Lots of the MC-standard helpful advise here.
Finger & skin chemistry varies widely. Some of us get tarnish after an hour of play, followed by...
Even one of the greats, Sam Bush, is particularly fond of that shape. Since there's no 3 note, it fits either A major OR minor.
On of my favorite cheats for A is: A-major = 6700 (C#,A,A,E) and...
Y'all are bringing back way too many pleasant memories. While I've described my folk music experience as "'round the campfire", that mostly means "'round the 6-pack".
Only once that made an...
Suspectin' that Gene 'n' the boys jus' tuned to that there piano out on the back porch!
Sorry if I've never been impressed by the Snarks; I just find the D'Addarios (and their predecessors, the Planet Waves, etc.) easier to read. And easy to adjust to non-standard tuning (flute player...
That's an unusual 3-screw pattern. If you search "mandolin tailpiece", you'll see that they commonly have 3 screws in a triangular format, often with the strap peg in the middle. And there are no...
Add me to the "back of headstock" list. I've had one on my D-35 for maybe 12 or 15 years, ever since the StewMac-sold predecessor (I forget the name) came out.
Not quite an aside:
It's not a question of IF a new bridge's feet will fit the top; ALL new bridge's feet will need to be fit to the top. As noted above, wood is variable.
... as is Hank Williams. Most folks will have some familiarity with 5 - 10 songs under both suggestions. (Or is that 77 y/o thinking?)
Maybe off topic, maybe helpful, definitely closer to home. One never knows...
Music Villa in Bozeman, MT, was tremendously helpful back in 1990, as I began searching for a GOOD but cheapish...