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    Re: Having trouble picking in public

    Playing at a jam can be really stressful because it's the toughest possible audience- amateur musicians. Pros have the confidence not to care, the general public doesn't even know it's not a little...
  2. Re: Kinda non-mando: volume pot taper issues

    So are you saying that I've already got a normal audio taper knob and I'm just not used to it? I'm not saying that's impossible, but this is the only guitar I've noticed this problem on. I can see...
  3. Kinda non-mando: volume pot taper issues

    I have a newer Duo Sonic where the volume pot was basically silent for 7/8ths of its radius, then honked up super loud in the last little bit. I figured I just happened to get a faulty pot or one...
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    Re: Recommendation for an electric?

    I got the Eastwood 'Warren Ellis' mandolin about a year ago. The quality is pretty good, especially if you're comfortable adjusting saddle heights and stuff like that. It doesn't really feel like an...
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    Re: Improvising

    Improvisation is different from composing. If it's not, we need a different word for 'composing'. You can revise when you compose, and you can't revise when you improvise, which leads to a reliance...
  6. Re: What instrument is the hardest? My experience

    Totally agree, sadly. If you've been around decent violin players for years it really highlights how lousy you sound starting out. And, of course, it's ungodly loud so you can't exactly scrape away...
  7. Re: Trying to find old article: guitarist exploring pick grips

    Thanks, man! I'm not totally sure this is the same one that I read all that time back (I seem to recall it being in a light gray font on a dark purple background, and to have more info on how long it...
  8. Re: Help! I can't hear the beat when I play a break

    If you can play steadily with a backing track or a metronome, you can play with a band– how sure are you that you're the problem? A don't know how advanced your family is, but some beginner groups...
  9. Trying to find old article: guitarist exploring pick grips

    Somebody linked to a great article here several years ago in which – this may not be totally right – a jazz guitarist (I think a professor?) methodically taught themselves about nine different ways...
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    Re: 3 hours of practice a day?

    I think you have to have a certain amount of perspective about the advice of a professional classical violin soloist. Perlman interprets music composed by other people in the highly ritualized world...
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    Re: Down the Tenor Rabbit Hole... (Help)

    I would buy a cheap used Gold Tone or Blueridge just to make sure you actually like playing a tenor guitar all that much before putting up the money for a vintage instrument. It's a cool instrument...
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    Re: Not all Collings hold their value

    This is extremely common for musical instrument companies- they don't want their dealers to undercut each other and race to the bottom. If you don't sell at their price -- or at least advertise at...
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    Re: Not all Collings hold their value

    Glad I'm not the only one who is always thinking of my 'instrument per hour' price when I'm playing. I've got a weird old mandola and some other oddballs that are probably still around $40 an hour or...
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    Re: Repairing an ugly side gouge/hole?

    Thanks everybody, Mark especially. That burn-in stuff is really interesting, I just don't know if I'd use it enough to justify getting it.
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    Re: Fat fingers/wide nuts?

    Seconding the people who suggest trying a wide-nut mandolin if you can. Not everybody rides the same size bicycle or uses the same length skis, no reason not to try to get the equipment that works...
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    Repairing an ugly side gouge/hole?

    Hi, I'm wary of even posting this since I know that people (very, very skilled people) might have strong opinions about there being a correct way of doing this, which mine probably wasn't. In other...
  17. Close harmony with a mixture of male/female voices- strategies?

    Hi all, this is only peripheral to mandolin but I know there are a ton of good bluegrassers here who sing:

    How do you approach improvised close harmony when you have men and women singing...
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    Re: Solved an Amateur Lutherie Trap

    Interesting! I know a couple local guys that use sandpaper as their last step. Lots of way to skin a cat, though.
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    Re: Solved an Amateur Lutherie Trap

    If you clean up the slot with some sandpaper, that might help too... that or the inevitable set of 80 graduated nut files from Stew-Mac.
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    Re: Solved an Amateur Lutherie Trap

    Yeah, that looks like a platonic ideal of a nut rather than a practical one. I can't imagine any of us have nuts where the plain strings sit half-way out of the nut slot, unless the slot is like a...
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    How do they do frets at big factories?

    I'm curious about this, since I've been trying to practice doing fret-levels on junkers- how do they do fretwork at big factories? Is it very automated? Is there such a thing as 'pre-crowned'...
  22. Re: Cheap electric mandolin- Eastwood, Kentucky, Gold Tone, or...

    Okay, reporting back: I ended up getting the Eastwood Warren Ellis 'mandostang'. It's pretty darn decent- the build feels solid and the electronics and knobs feel better than, say, those on a recent...
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    Re: Eastwood LP tenor

    I need another tenor like a hole in the head but they got those colors EXACTLY RIGHT. Headstock logo looks great, too.
  24. Re: Cheap electric mandolin- Eastwood, Kentucky, Gold Tone, or...

    Thanks everybody, this is really good stuff to know, especially about replacing pickups. So, Mandobird vs. Eastwood- who ya got?
  25. Cheap electric mandolin- Eastwood, Kentucky, Gold Tone, or... ?

    I'm looking for a cheap solid-body 4-string electric mandolin, mainly to use for very quiet practice. I found a local Kentucky which felt reasonably okay, but I thought I'd throw the question over to...
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