I visited Fiddler's Green a couple months ago. The Ellis F was unbelieveable. The Ratliff F had old strings, but my take was that if it had fresh strings it would have been on par with the Pava. ...
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I visited Fiddler's Green a couple months ago. The Ellis F was unbelieveable. The Ratliff F had old strings, but my take was that if it had fresh strings it would have been on par with the Pava. ...
I have and play regularly an Audie F model, s/n 9 hundred and something. Hardly ever play the Weber F since I got the Ratliff. Definitely would be worth your time and gasoline to go check it out.
Roland White mentioned in a seminar a few years back that he used the 75/74 combination being discussed. I like the combination, but it works a lot better for Roland than it does for me. Looking...
Don't know a thing about the Country Boy model, but since I picked up the Ratliff R-5, the Weber mandolin and the Martin guitars have stayed in the closet.
Scales and appeggios.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Anyone else try to watch this and have "Veetle" take over?
Jerry was still dressed better than more than half his audiences.
swain
Festival Waltz
In answer to John's question,,,isn't it worth a little extra money,,,,?
I would say yes, in my case an extra 10% to 20% more than the dot com or 800 number stores would be reasonable if the local...
When my octave mandolin is out of the case(looks like a banjo case) I always keep it locked to make sure no one puts a banjo in it.
Depends on the geo. In the northeast US a lot are from red pine.
And in the southeast, many are from yellow pine.
Go figure.
swain
While Running-Kilometers
While Driving-Miles, and mph
While Flying-Knots
While Working-mm, Newton-Meters, radians/sec
While Fishing-4 Wt, 4x, 5x, etc.
Replacing Mandolin Strings-Decimal Inches...
Add Roland White to the list of tone gard users. Add me to the list of happy owners. Don't need to worry so much about belt buckles, etc.
Jethro, Dawg, Sam Bush, Frank Wakefield, Roland White
I don't use my Tonerite all the time, so will figure out how much per week I will be asking, and will then put it in the Café classifieds.
That being said, jazztune18, I would guess that by the...
I'd buy the one I liked playing the most.
Learned that the hard way.
Grappelli, Errol Garner, Fats Waller
Do you have specific attributes in mind to qualify an instrument as "professional-grade"?
Throw away half the strings, have your shop guy fix the pickup or install a new one, and then wail away on your 4 string electric.:mandosmiley:
And the race is on!!!:mandosmiley:
Someone at Elderly would probably be happy to play it over the phone for you. You might not be able to hear as much detail as you want, but I've used phone demos to pick between instruments, and...
This guy would just play it.
I'm very happy with the sound of a small volume maker's F style with a spruce top sawn off-quarter showing somewhat diagonal "waves". He wouldn't have built it or shipped it if he thought it was...