Not sure why but the link didn't work for me as a link, but if you put the copy and paste the url in your browser ( http://www.mandolinsessions.com/aug08/Mendel.html ) it works fine. Just thought I'd...
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Not sure why but the link didn't work for me as a link, but if you put the copy and paste the url in your browser ( http://www.mandolinsessions.com/aug08/Mendel.html ) it works fine. Just thought I'd...
The instrument I had was made in Romania I think, definitely something different.
I think that I had one of these. It was called something else, but it had the same flower and headstock. Terrible instrument if it's the same. I think I just flat out gave it to someone to use it as...
A tad off topic, but I've thought that that Monroe's recording of the song perfectly illustrates the difference between country and bluegrass in a single song. I LOVE that transition from slow to...
I'm glad to hear that there were folks making mandolins in Italy in 1945!
I'm generally not too susceptible to mandolin envy, and I've never once considered owning an OM. But somehow I can imagine being very happy playing that instrument. If you could post a video of this...
I used one when I was playing with a guitarist who liked to tune his guitar (actually a banjitar) up a half step. I don't have any problem with a capo per se, but I felt like it effected the tone and...
I fit this mold too. I think BG is okay, and I do have a few Bill Monroe compilations that I listen to sometimes. I came to mandolin via violin and an interest in Irish traditional music. These days...
I would also find it immoral for society to limit how a person can spend his or her legally acquired money. I'm not a communist, I am, in fact, a small business owner and I'm very happy with...
I know that each person will have his or her own take on this, but the question that interests me is whether it's ethical/moral to spend that much on a mandolin when that much money could provide...
Sounds like I'm too late to enthusiastically endorse designs three and four... I love the more modern (in typographic terms, which actually means early 19th century) ball ends...
I have a Midmo M-2 and an Eastman 604 (which is like the 504 but just a bit fancier), I don't have a whole lot to say that hasn't been said, but here are my observations... 1.) I prefer the midmo for...
I was 14 in 1989, I remember begging my parents to let me go. Fortunately, I had a friend who also wanted to go and whose grandmother had a home a couple of miles from Alpine Valley, an outdoor...
Couldn't find it, but I'd keep my eye on abebooks.com. It's like searching a thousand used bookshops simultaneously. I'm surprised that it's so rare. That was a pretty big record, I saw that tour and...
Back in 1997, I saw this guy Neil Feather on tour and he was performing music on an organ made out of vibrators suspended over electromagnetic pickups. I hadn't thought about this for years, but...
I saw him in NYC in 1999 at the Beacon, it was $49, which seemed like a lot back then... He played for nearly 3 hours without a break. I think it would be completely worth $90 (if you're a fan). I...
12 years. I lost interest in playing music from 1993-2005. I got too involved in school, work, and other pursuits (photography, mostly). Part of it was that music for me when I was younger was very...
What about "Santa Lucia" or "Come Back to Sorrento?" While they may not be popular favorites, surely they're some of the more recognizable mandolin tunes out there...
I guess someone should tell Willie Nelson that he's been using the wrong guitar.
1974 - 1981 - Green Bay, Wis.
1981 - 1982 - Locorotondo, Italy
1982 - 1993 - Green Bay, Wis.
1993 - 1995 - Bloomington, Ind.
1995 - 1996 - Bologna, Italy
1996 - 1997 - Bloomington, Ind.
1997 -...
When "Out of Time" (the one with all the mandolin) came out, I remember reading an interview in which Peter Buck called it their 'baroque' album.
This happened to me a couple of months ago. Suddenly I was selling a ton of Casio digital cameras, it was a total nuisance and it took Ebay about 4 days to straighten it out.
M. Ward's Post-War album from 2007. No mandolins, but great songwriting that I'd like to recommend.
I'd have to second the ukulele suggestion, they even fit in school lockers! I think you can even find instructional materials and curricula for the uke in a classroom setting, various Canadians have...
I'm sympathetic to nicely bound books (I am a library science student, after all)... and in time, I may buy the Ricordi. But, having a three ring punch and a number of recycled binders, not to...