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Hello, Scott. You can change mine from MandoMomma to Betsy Biemann. (The former isn't relevant anymore anyway, since my son now plays the sax.)

I guess I need to start practicing once in a...

When my daughter was about that age, she said that she wanted to play the flute or the harp. I talked with a local teacher who teaches children and teaches several different instruments, and she...

I'm in too!

I just signed up for group lessons this fall, so will need some new picks....:mandosmiley:

Have they stopped making Aspens? Unless I am missing it, I don't see them on the new site.

I bought an almost new Aspen via the MC classifieds a couple of years ago and it cured MAS for...

I love my Weber Aspen, which I bought gently used in the Mandolin Cafe classifieds...:mandosmiley:

Thanks, all! Appreciate your input very much. The Cafe community is an amazing resource.

MandoMomma

Hello, all.

I am going to the March Mandolin Festival (:mandosmiley:) and realized it would be good for me to bring a digital recorder to record tunes that we learn while there. I don't want to...

I am going, along with my 10 year old son, who also plays. Can't wait!:mandosmiley:

This is my first New Year's as a mandolin player. Here goes:

1) Learn a new tune a month.
2) Play duets with my 10-year-old son, who also plays the mandolin.
3) Go to the March Mandolin...

So...I am still in learning mode, having taken up the mandolin this spring. I am looking to buy straps for me and for my son. Two strap-related basic questions:

1) I see the button at the bottom...

My son heard mando
Music, said "Can I learn that,
Please?" Now I play too.

My family has gone to Maine Fiddle Camp for a June weekend for each of the past two years. My kids (now 9 and 11) play the Irish whistle, but last June my son decided at Fiddle Camp that he wanted...

This is very interesting. I did try Googling American Conservatory bowlback and saw on this site a c.1910 mandolin (restored) that had a very similar shaped body and tortoiseshell scratch guard and...

Hello, all. My son's recent interest in taking up the mandolin has made me very curious about an old mandolin that my parents bought several decades ago. (Got some help via another thread on a good...

Well, that didn't work exactly as I thought, but I did put the photo as my avatar, so you can see it there.

My son (9) got his first mandolin (Kentucky 150) a month ago, with some great advice from you all. Here is a picture of his new prized mando with our 2 1/2 year old prized Border Terrier, Ginger. ...

After reading your advice, browsing the Forum, and talking with Robert at Folkmusician, we ended up ordering a Kentucky KM150. It should be arriving in a week or so and we are really looking forward...

Hello, all. While at a music camp weekend last June, my son decided that he wanted to learn the mandolin and he started lessons a couple of months ago. He has shown that he is serious and the folks...