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    Re: Locking your mandolin case

    A friend of mine once had a guitar stolen, the thieves took it out of the case and replaced it with random stuff from the room to make up the weight. He didn't find out that it had been stolen until...
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    Black Mountain Slide Ring

    I can't find any posts about the Black Mountain Slide Ring in the forum, and I think they lends themselves to slide mandolin, so here's a heads up for those who haven't heard of them.
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  3. Re: Is anyone else playing a Hathway Baglamas

    That's brilliant, thank you so much. It's plenty to keep me going for a while.
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    Thanks, that's really interesting. Do you know of any method books in English covering that style of playing?

    I don't think that I'd be able to learn to play like that any time soon, but it would...
  5. Re: Is anyone else playing a Hathway Baglamas

    If you want to practice that skill on a budget I can recommend Ashbury Chromatic Dulci-Stick. It's a dulcimer that in the process of evolving into a Greek Tousora, with a small body, a long neck, and...
  6. Re: Is anyone else playing a Hathway Baglamas

    The Greek Baglamas is about the size of a soprano ukulele. There's a regular ukulele open mike across the road from me, and I've been toying with the idea of taking it along and claiming that it's...
  7. Re: Is anyone else playing a Hathway Baglamas

    Yes, as I understand it, the Turkish Baglama was the original, the Greek Baglamas is a mongrel combining features of the Turkish Baglama and Western European instruments, an the Hathway Baglamas is a...
  8. Re: Is anyone else playing a Hathway Baglamas

    Yes, it's his short necked instrument. When I was in Hobgoblin I narrowed down my shortist to a that versus one of his long necked sazs with quarter-tone fretting. When I liked about the DAD tuning...
  9. Re: Is anyone else playing a Hathway Baglamas

    Wass that Hobgoblin? That's were I got it from. It's a dangerous place to visit, last time I had a look round there I ended up accidently buying a chromatic stick-dulcimer.
  10. Is anyone else playing a Hathway Baglamas

    Hello

    Last year I got a baglamas made by the London based luthier Paul Hathway. Does anyone else here play one of them? It's built like a mandolin and tuned like a Greek Baglamas.
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    Re: Vocal Amp?

    The Stagepas 250M is a particularly versitile bit of kit, it's a single speaker version of the Stagepas with a powered mono mixer. It's a cross between a mini PA and a multi channel combo amp.
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    Re: Bouzouki cases

    Have you tried 5-string banjo cases (that's what I use for my bozouki)?

    One problem with this solution would be that the handle would be placed to balance a heavy resonator so you'd need to move...
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    Re: Mandolin to Guitar?

    I'm used to a bouzouki with a longer scale length than most guitars, but the wider fingerboard on a guitar meant I really struggled with the stretches needed until I got myself a Little Martin LXME...
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    Re: Chord changes

    My usual method is to practice the chord changes slowly and deliberately. Fret one chord, strum it slowly to make sure I've hit all the strings cleanly, fret the next and so on. Go as slowly as you...
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    Re: Emulating a bass guitar

    The same could be said about upright bass or just about any acoustic instrument. This is an issue if you are (say) playing with electric guitars and want to be able to dratically change your...
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    Re: Amplifiers

    It might be overkill for you, but if you want to take the small PA route I recently got myself a Yamaha Stagepas 250M which I can recommend. It’s a single PA speaker with a removable built in 10...
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    Re: Having trouble learning faster tunes

    I started learning tunes with Butch's 30 fiddle tunes book and I can say from personal experience that although the fast versions seem impossibly fast to start off with you will get there in the end....
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    Re: Terminology/Music theory...the upbeat!

    [QUOTE=swampy;590405]A quick update.
    Guess who admittedly has not been listening to the music? If you guessed the drummer in question you are correct.
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    How about setting all the students...
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    Re: Staying in tune while waiting to play

    If you do want to tune by ear then a headphone amp with a good pair of covered headphones will let you tune up in the venue.

    I got myself a Korg Pandora many moons ago, it's a pocket multi efect...
  20. Sticky: Re: Invitation for users to use their real name

    Hello Scott

    Could you change mine to Patrick Killeen please.

    Thanks

    Patrick
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    Re: deletion

    If you want to sleep on it before making your final decision your might be better off writing your post in a word processor and sleeping on it before you submit it. That way do don't wake up to find...
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    Re: deletion

    I agree with you. To restate my point more clearly, posting an item to a public forum in the knowledge that there is no delete facilityis like donating a copy of your work to a library. My argument...
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    Re: deletion

    The analogy between deleting a post and letting a book go out of print is a questionable one. If an author decides to let a work go out of print that doesn't give them the right to demand that...
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    Re: deletion

    I agree with the policy.

    The problem comes when someone edits or deletes a post that someone else has responded to. Doing that changes the context for the posts that follow, and with that it can...
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    Re: Tuning an ashory bass in fifths

    I've finally got myself an Ashbory bass so I thought I'd add an update.

    I almost got it into CGDA using the factory strings, but the bass E string had been cut too short so I was only able to get...
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