What a great treat for some lucky person.
Type: Posts; User: Chris Hasty
What a great treat for some lucky person.
Not to hijack this thread but... Harry Babasin and the Jazz pickers! Wow. Definitely rates high on the coolness scale.
4.67 years. Ugh... I loved being a student, but I was ready to finish. When I went back for nursing I had toyed with the idea of minoring in music, but my degree plan was so stringent that there were...
That is pretty much spot on. I didn't love it enough to spend the rest of my life delivering pizzas on the side so I wouldn't have to live out of a cardboard box.
Like Steve Denver, the first time I went to college was as a jazz music major. I grew up in the shadow of the Lab Bands at North Texas State University and regularly watched many great jazz musicians...
No worries. The only two people I know of that use that tuning are myself and Marla Fibish (and I copied it from her) so I doubt it would be a tuning that people are screaming for from the rooftops....
It doesn't look like it supports alternate tunings. I play mandola DGDA and would totally buy this app in a heartbeat if I could tweak the tunings.
Overall it looks like a very well laid out app...
I would be curious to see how that tailpiece treats it over time. That will change the tension point on that top in a pretty dramatic way I would imagine. Instead of pulling from the bridge, it's now...
Meant to do this for a while now. Please update my name from Hastyman to Chris Hasty. Thanks!
Is this a custom mandola being built? If so you might consider fanned frets.
Of course, to really help you I would need to understand your motivation. I know you said you would like to have a...
It might help string changes, but it would changes the string angle and tension on the cone, which are both pretty critical. As far as I know, this is the only spoon he set up like this so it's no...
Yes it is a spoon. If I had to nitpick and find a downside, the spoon would be it. Only because it makes string changes difficult. However, since I use flat-wounds and spent a great deal of effort...
They are very nice to play and Keith is a pleasure to talk with. I am actually talking with him about a second instrument now, a 5 course that would cover the range of both the mandola and mandolin....
I thought I would post this pic as a new thread so I wouldn't hijack the capo thread...
This is my Commodium resonator Mandola (#29) made by Keith Cary. It is the only mandola he has made, with...
Bernie, it's funny that I had that exact same thought about my tuning as I posted it, but it's more standard than it appears so I decided to roll with it.
I had talked to Marla Fibish at one point...
I've been playing my 18.5 inch Commodium mandola tuned DGDA. Helps with the ITM fiddle tunes as long as I don't get my fingerings mixed up with mandolin tunings.
I have toyed with the idea of a...
Paul, if I might ask... what are the dimensions of that tailpiece from Elderly? I'm mainly looking for center of endpin to edge and edge to string attachment. Thanks!
I read notation, and really don't improvise much since I'm pretty new at the mandolin. However, I really dislike tabs. This whole right brain conversation might explain why. To say I'm thinking...
I've been playing a few months, and something I will add. You have to be intimately familiar with your instrument first. Know how it feels, how that relates to your hand position, and the sounds...
While I know absolutely nothing about the quality of his mandolins, this one looks nice:
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I think there is a lot of truth to this statement. While, in my opinion, my $500.00 alvarez A body sounds great (I've gotten many compliments on it's tone)... I have played a few mandolins that...
Ironically, youtube was a great place for me to start off. I could listen to the piece, emulate it, and play along when I got comfortable enough. Plus it helped me learn the names of songs that...
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I write left handed. Although I believe I am truly been ambidexterous. When I was in Kindergarten I wrote with my left hand on the left side of the page and right hand on the right side of the...