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    Re: Modernizing an A-4. Yes or No?

    My 1917 A4 has replacement tuners, bridge, and frets. I had it for 20 years until I wore some frets right down to flat. I was a little concerned that the sound might change but I can't detect it....
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    Re: Boston Area Refrets and repairs?

    Glenn Nelson at Mockingbird Music in Berlin MA.
    He did a fabulous job setting up my A4 with banjo frets and an adjustable bridge.
  3. Re: do you own/have experience with a Martin Style 5 Terz?

    I have two Martin 5-21Ts. They are Brazilian rosewood and spruce, louder than their size might dictate, and can sing oh so sweet single lines or chord it like an. octave mandolin.
    I keep one tuned...
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    Re: just starting out - what are my string options?

    If 6 string guitar is a main interest then tune DGBE so it has some crossover. If the mandolin world is your other interest then go with GDAE.
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    Re: Right Hand Mandolin Book in the making!

    I want big print for text and tabs so my old eyes can read the music/tabs from a few feet away
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    Re: An open letter to Classifieds users

    I confess to being not very observant, also to having sold a thing or two in the classifieds. Is there a way to remind me what I sold?

    This site link sits right in the middle of my bookmarks bar...
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    Re: Any Ex-Banjo Pickers?

    Banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, whatever- all ways to get the music inside you out. They are tools.
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    Re: Mandola Insight

    This is all good to hear. I bought a mandola a few weeks ago and thus far have been playing mandolin on it. I have the hand size to get away with it most of the time. I've started thing about keys...
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    Re: Using the Mandolin to practice Violin

    I think there's lots of crossover between them. I had maybe 100 tunes I could play OK on the mandolin when I took up the fiddle and it gets you on the playing field very well. You know what you want...
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    Re: New Guitar--some mandolin content

    When I first started on stringed instruments playing the guitar I would hit a wall and stop a while, sometimes months before I would pick it up again. Then I took up clawhammer banjo and when I hit a...
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    Re: How long, really, until I can unpack it...

    I got a guitar delivered last week in 10 degree New England cold. I have an infrared thermometer and I aimed i at the box and when it hit 50 I opened it and took out the case. When the case hit 50 I...
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    Re: Origin and significance of "The"

    The jgwoods has always found it a bit pretentious and a bit of a joke. His opinion is his own,
    sincerely The jgwoods
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    Re: Who's The Oldest?

    Despite being old I haven't shrunk much- still over 2 meters tall and 22+ stone.
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    Re: Who's The Oldest?

    69 but I feel like I'm 80
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    Re: Unpacking your cold winter delivery

    I received an ice cold guitar once and opened it in my ice cold garage to see if it survived shipment. It was fine so I stuck it back in the case and took it into the house.
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    Re: Wishnevsky Mandocello

    I have one of Wish's solid body ResoMandoCellos. It was made from old piano wood. It has a pick up too. It's rough but- the action is good and the intonation too. Altogether it has been a good way to...
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    Re: The Loar 700 problems ????

    You don't say where you are. If you are anywhere that winter comes then you are running into low humidity and some top sinkage that goes with the instrument drying out.

    If I'm right then you need...
  18. Re: Can this cold dry weather we've been having affect my action?

    It is reliable as can be that all my instruments action drops as winter approaches. My 100 year old Gibson A4 can really drop and I would have thought an old instrument would be stable. Nope, it...
  19. Re: those who have went with a wider nut width-your experience pl

    I play cleaner on 1 3/16" nut width mandolins and 1 23/32 nut guitars. I find 1 1/4" mandolin nut width to be too wide- plays clean but I lose speed with my clumsy fingers. Same on 1 3/4 guitars.
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    Re: motorcycle ride with mandolin

    It's not exactly the same but I took a 7000 mile trip on my Can Am 3 wheeler from MA to NM with a banjo in the front trunk. It was a Nechville with an easily removable neck. It tucked in easily and I...
  21. Re: Does playing Mandolin Help in learning to play the fiddle?

    I'd say 25-30% or more help if you want to play the same tunes on both instruments. You get all the left hand fingering from mandolin, work on finger placement for intonation and a new job for the...
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    Re: Car travel with a mandolin

    Never had a problem between 40 and 100 or so. I leave all sorts of stuff in the car between those temperatures, crack the windows or the sunroof, keep them out of direct sun, not a problem.

    My...
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    Re: Sierra Hull

    Dang that girl can play, and she never hurt my eyes either. Wonderful performance.
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    Re: My First Collings!

    Love mine. Enjoy yours.
  25. Re: New strings. How fast do you tune up to pitch?

    I take them all off and put them back on using an electric drill mounted tuner spinner thingy. I use a post it note placed so the edge is right where the bridge sits then spin all the strings loose...
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