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If you use the Aquila soprano uke strings tuned in fifths, you may find that the E String tends to break after about a week on a concert. You have to put on too much tension to get up to an E. I got...

Has anybody out there ever found any transcriptions of any of Tiny Moore's solos?

Will

I only wish the article had mentioned what a great teacher you are, too. I look forward to the new CD. I wish you'd come down and play in Easthampton MA again -- or stop in at the Black...

OK, I think I figured out what I did wrong. So I'm, going to try to post this mp3 again, even though, now that I listen to it when it's not 1 a.m., I'm not as enthusiastic about the performance. ...

I'm curious whether folks generally use the same picks for playing their emandos that they use for their acoustics. I have been using a Dunlop 2.0 for both. Pretty stiff , but you always know where...

Hmmm. I need to figure out what went wrong. It wasn't supposed to be quite this Zen.

Here's a tune I've been working on for a while that lays pretty nice on the four string. This is my Kentucky, plugged right into the computer through a Firestudio Project DAW.

I play regularly in a small-ish venue, and use a Roland AC-60. I mike it on bigger stages. I got it originally to amplify my Rigel Gypsy-Q (which has a great acoustic sound), but have been using it...

On this subject, where is the best place to find these for sale, and is there any source where you can buy the strings singly to create the set you want,or to ad a C string to a standard set?

Definitely. I found an old ladybug mandolin in my grandmother's attic when I was about 14. My Uncle Carl used it to court my Aunt Irma in the 1920's. I think it was the kind Sears and Roebuck...

Very nice indeed! What is the make of your five-string?

Thanks for all the great suggestions. It appears are a couple of good music stores nearby where I can just take my e-mando in and try some of these things out. I'll print out the thread and put it...

I love the cereal box, but maybe I need a detergent box to get that "clean" sustain.

Actually, I bought a Boss compression pedal, but as you said, it made the tone sound too clean, almost like a synthesizer. I think a volume pedal might work, but I was hoping for something that...

Does anyone out there have a suggestion for an effects box that produces clean sustain for an e-mando? I'm not looking for distortion, just duration. Thanks

Hi. Haven't posted in a while, been kind of busy starting to learn how to play the Kentucky 300E with my band. About a year ago, you all helped me figure out how to introduce a solid body electric...

Check out Will Patton Ensemble. He often has a woodwind player. His daughter is top notch on the clarinet. Great gypsy feel to some of his stuff, especially the Peripherique (spl?) CD.

Check out these guys. I don't know what the heck kind of mandolin he's playing, but it sure sounds like the blues to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yTOyw0fR4s

So, I took my new emando to the regular gig, and everybody liked it. The bass player calls it the Lesser Paul.

I quickly figured out you need a whole different approach to rhythm playing. On the...

I've been using a pretty hard pick on my acoustic mandolins for a long time -- 2.0 mm Dunlops. But on this electric I've had for a few weeks, it seems to make a nicer tone with a thinner pick. It...

Hey, delsbrother --

Yeah, the Rigel has a great pizo pickup. It reproduces the acoustic sound very accurately, especially through my little Roland amp, and it's a solid as a rock -- you know,...

Thanks, posters. I've been playing my Rigel Gypsy Q at at the same brunch gig for about ten years, and just bought a Kentucky KM300E that was hanging on the wall at the luthier's shop when I took my...

I'd be interested in hearing some stories about what happened to musicians the first time they showed up at their regular gig with an emando instead of/in addition to their acoustic axe.
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Check out the little Roland micro cube bass amp. Pretty inexpensive, very clean. I'm using a Roland AC-60 with a Kentucky KM300E I just got, and it sounds very nice, too, but weights a bit more.