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Oops! I wasn’t watching my mail. Thanks, I’ll give them a shout.
Hi All
I broke the truss rod on my Fylde Octavius mandola/OM. :crying: Does anyone have a recommendation for a good repair person in south Chicago metro area?
Thanks as always.
Steve
Glen Cronkhite made me a very nice and very protective bag. FWIW
Steve
I tuned my mandola DAEA. it made for easier playing on tunes I’d learned on a bouzouki.
Steve
Glenn Kronkhite makes some fabulous and very protective bags. They’re well worth checking out.
https://glenncronkhite.com/product/mandolin
Steve
I guess I should have had that coffee before posting. :redface: DBD makes a Bminor, not seen a whole lot in the stuff I play. Still, it makes for interesting experimentation in chord voicing that may...
Questions like this can make my brain hurt! I tune my bouzouki to GDAD. Fretting only the A string at B yields GDBD, a G chord. If I strum only the top 3 strings I have a B as well as a G? It’ll...
I knew I was coming to the right place. Lots of good ideas, Thanks!
These old hands are beginning to stiffen up with arthritis. That makes playing my long scale bouzouki more challenging. Is there anyone in the Brain Trust here who can recommend some exercises or...
Glenn Cronkhite makes beautiful and very protective custom gig bags. When traveling I encase it all in a Clam shipping case. Not at all cheap but great stuff. ...
Another option to consider gets you two instruments in one. My Fylde short-scale bouzouki absolutely sparkles as a mandola when I put the capo on the 5th fret. Instant mandola tuning. FWIW
Steve
The original, and still the best.
And one more from my local shop,Down Home Guitars: https://downhomeguitars.com/instruments/goodtime-two-17-fret-tenor-banjo-maple-resonator/
There are a couple of the at Elderly Instruments.
https://www.elderly.com/products/gold-tone-cc-it-irish-tenor-banjo
I once tuned a Fylde (tenor) mandola up from CGDA to DAEA. That helped me switch between the mandola and my bouzouki, which was tuned GDAD. CGDA will give you mandolin tuning on the lower courses,...
Ciaran’s bouzouki was lost on the flight to the states. He had to borrow instruments for a few performances. Happy ending: it was found and returned to him.
Steve
Excellent advice. Thanks for sharing.
Steve
QUOTE=Buck;1739883]Neither UPS nor Fedex sell insurance. They will allow you to pay more for high "declared value" items, but that is NOT insurance,...
FYI, I have used sites designed for shipping bicycles and parts to ship instruments and saved some money. They’re used to larger packages. I don’t know if it’s strictly allowed but it’s easier to get...
They measure all of them with lasers as they pass through the waypoints.
I never realized how the neck/scroll all fit together. Thanks for sharing that.
Steve
FWIW, I play a short scale (23”) bouzouki by Fylde. It really shines when capoed up to 3 or 5.
Steve
Well, I had forgotten about this. Been a long time since I signed up with PayPal. I tend to agree with you. The PayPal fee is not unreasonable and is really no different from what the credit card...
Well, I suppose I should have been more alert in the first place but here's my story, posted as a public service.
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