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"Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make heads nor tails of it."

(Duck Soup)

Autoharp and mandolin can be a great combination. A tad ethereal, perhaps, but real sweet.

Experienced autoharp players who know how to play and/or accompany fiddle tunes and who favor the...

Thanton,

Amazon is fine, and might even have a more lenient return policy than some brick-and-mortar stores, but I've had great luck calling up shops that carry what I'm looking for--or something...

Hey David,

There are dances every week--often several per week--in the greater Bay Area. I don't play for them much anymore, but I played hundreds of them over the past three decades. Playing for...

The Dead did it in D, and it's really straightforward.

Check out this basic tab:

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/g/grateful_dead/i_know_you_rider_crd.htm

Pretty easy to follow the changes...

Outside of our little mandocentric bubble, our eight-string buddy is pretty much considered a novelty instrument (just witness the endless threads regarding comments about little guitars, funny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdoGVgj1MtY

When was the last time you changed strings?

That can make a world of difference for those crazy intonation issues where all of the metrics/dimensions seem to check out. Unlikely that a recent...

Universal principles:

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Plus stylistic zeitgeist in 1900:

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Plus fun:

I'm another advocate of the frets.com method.

Once you have the peghead technique down pat, having a way to hold the string in place at the tailpiece end seems to be the key to an easy...

Kind of an interesting discussion on the scarcity and value of L&H mandolins here: http://www.mandozine.com/resources/VDRT/

Harry West confirms the notion that in the the L&H nomenclature, "A"...

Wow! Quite the Angel Band. Do you have to drink the Kool Aid to join?

What am I missing with this one? That looks pretty much like a mid-century 2-15 to me.

Or has the original "strangest ad photo ever" been swapped out for one a little less strange?

Very nice playing, indeed!

I also have no idea which is which, but I prefer the first one, actually. The first one is more brilliant and clear, and I'm guessing one could get a warmer tone and...

It could be Dennis Caplinger, multi-instrumentalist, member of Bluegrass, Etc., and author of Bluegrass Mandolin Basics. His bio lists a bunch of film and television credits, including Deadwood.
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If I'm listening in the car on the drive to the gig, I generally choose something completely different--different instruments, repertoire, etc.--nothing too similar to what I'm going to be playing....

First thing I do with a new instrument is change the strings. That might clear up the problem. If not, perhaps some gentle fret dressing is in order. Also check the saddle to make sure that the pair...

This floated across my FB News Feed this morning and I had to purloin it to share here. I don't recall seeing it before. My apologies if it's a repeat.

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I can't find any info about the...

If this has already been posted, I missed it. Here's a shot of women workers in the Kalamazoo Gibson factory during WWII. This is from the new book about Gibson's banner guitars made mostly by women...

Sorry, for some reason the post (below) duplicated itself when I edited it.

Website for the project: http://www.bannergibsons.com/index.html

Some nice eye candy for banner freaks.

Interesting idea, Carlo, and it might be fun and interesting to at least try it once to see what you get. Oud technique and plectrum (aka risha, reesha, mizrap) are generally very different from the...

Pretty funny throughout. My bet is that the OP was mocking other posts right from the get go.

I wrote a bunch of articles for Acoustic Guitar and Strings magazines over the years, and I still cringe about some of the typos and fact-checking errors that got by me and into print. There are so...

Really fine gesture drawings, Roland. I know from my own frustrating experience that it's very hard to capture that much in such a short time. I'm really impressed that you got the curves of the...