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Umm, without taking the time to go check the archives, it was in my head that Dan B's usual jig pattern was DDU, rather than DUU....

What's more important the the actual picking pattern is the...

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As to the latter, I have seen folks bid way beyond retail for easily available items just because they got into the heat of the auction competition.

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Okay, so it's not...

Nobody here has yet commented on what I find most amusing about this auction.

Go back & read the title again (it's quoted in the topic-starter). I'll wait....




Weren't the carved-top...

The Yahoo group "Tenor Guitar Registry" has a text file in their "Files" section with recommended gauges for several tunings. I think they all assume a 22" scale, but that's without checking....

All good stuff. My 200 centimes:

If you're an aspiring Monster Player, go with Dan's advice of playing through it. Otherwise:

Take a quick break (five minutes or so). Don't even think about the...

It's a simple scheme, really: 1 is plain, 2 adds top binding & visually upgraded wood, 3 adds rosette, back binding & still fancier wood. The 1 series came in N (Natural) and...um...something else...

I've found that--for me, at least--an easy way to monitor this is to check the tension level in your left thumb. If the thumb is tense, the rest of the hand is, too. If the thumb is relaxed, the rest...

Christmas gifts for me are always a trial to my family--everything I want is either so insignificant that I just buy it myself, or way out of the gift-appropriate range.

For the last several...

This is a lot like what happened when I did buy my Flatiron pancake (a 2M).

I'd voiced a desire for "an original Flatiron" a couple of years before, to Ken Cartwright. He said "Yeah, you &...

I'd say you did, indeed get a good buy (though other posters in this thread might disagree). As I've said before, I paid $600 for my 2M (Maple), with OHSC & a ~$250 "repair" (action adjustment)...

Seems like I've commented on this before, but here goes:

I can't tell you all of the differences, but I do know that the Cadets all had opaque finishes (at least on the tops), and shorter warranty...

I used to have one of these Regal/Dobro mandolins--just from the picture, that could be mine (prob'ly not--I don't recall a crack in the shoulder). I paid Gruhn's about $250 for it (years ago now),...

I posted this elsewhere, but it's topical here, so....

My Vega flat back is very happy wearing TI's, but when I tried them on my Flatiron pancake, the intonation of the A was horribly off, even...

Fuzzy--

That's one of the reasons that I'm sure I'll be able to keep the promise in the long run. If I ever decide I'm not doing it justice, I'll talk to you before resorting to eBay (or even...

When I purchased a tenor guitar at a yard sale not too long ago, it was in DGBE (or close, being a bit out-of-tune even for that). I retuned it to relative fifths, off the G string, to try out. Part...

I went the other way--mando to fiddle. I found that the different scale length, plus the lack of frets, caused me to have to put down the mando for a little while as I was just learning to fiddle, in...

Mahvelous, simply mahvelous.

If I had funds to spare (or even nearly so), I'd already be talking to you about that two-point.

I especially love the maple rosettes.

Interesting that the inlaid logo is an option. On my '81, the front of the headstock is nekkid, with "The Flatiron" stamped/branded onto the back of the headstock. I kinda like it that way....

I play mostly--well, almost exclusively--Irish tunes, but I love multi-part tunes (more than two, such as Foxhunter's Reel, Gravel Walks, Boys of Malin, Jig of Slurs (add "The" as appropriate))....

That's kind of funny--I'm looking at my still-fairly-new-to-me, OM-tuned tenor guitar as a bridge from Irish melody playing to chordal accompaniment....

If that's correct, it's prob'ly a scam.

If it's really a Fylde Touchstone, I'd be surprised if it's cheap by the time the auction finishes. I don't have personal experience with them, but they've...

I've used eBay's "Second Chance" feature successfully, from both sides. As a buyer, you just need to be sure that the Second Chance email takes you to an actual "Second Chance" eBay posting, and that...

In no particular order:

Grateful Dead: almost anything, especially "Brokedown Palace", "New Speedway Boogie", "Black Peter"
Hot Tuna: Hot Tuna, plus "Genesis", "Watch the North Wind Rise",...

I put a set of TIs (I don't remember the number, or where I got them, but the seller, at least, called them a "mandola" set), onto my 17" Trinity College mandola (japanese), and they were barely long...

Niles Hokkanen (mandocrucian, here on the board) has written "The Mandola Sampler". It's still available here, as well as at fine music store such as this one.

NFI. I just found it quite useful....