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    Re: The Oft Discussed Rogue RM-100A...

    I bought one several years ago just to see what an oval hole sounded like adjusted it and like the sound a lot better than any Johnson I have played for the money i don't think you can beat Musician...
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    Re: Alternative Designs

    So do a lot of others National with their resonator someone here with a bedpan mandolin 4string 5,6,10 ect with pickup with out How about one with strings on both sides different tuning two songs at...
  3. Re: Good luck with this one ie, what is he thinking?

    He is thinking (there is one born every min )
  4. Re: Fender classic pick users - old versus new picks?

    I have been using them for years But have found them a little heavy for my National Resonator unless I want to Drown the Banjos??
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    Re: Baritone uke to Tenor/Octave mando GDAE tuning

    Yes I did that a coupe years ago nice instrument. I was at a ragtime show a one of the players was playing a tennor and I ask him what was the difference and ( he said the price) I thought that was...
  6. Thread: Bone saddles

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    Re: Bone saddles

    Yes I stole my dogs Bridge for my cheapie and It sounded a lot better Dog was a little put off so I gave him what was left ( dog bone is the same as the bone one buys for nuts and a he## of a lot...
  7. Re: I am looking for a mandolin shaped like a clasical guitar

    Not a classical but lke a small fender electric tella the Gold Tone G110 new around $600
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    Re: Suggest a caption for this photo

    Kitty checking the key
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    Re: Who has more then one mando

    Wife and I are retired and I'm disabled! we cannot travel and have special diets so dinning out is forbiden? So we play music? and at an elderly age why shoun't we try to enjoy whats left of our...
  10. Thread: Say What?

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    Re: Say What?

    What they say is ( theire's one born everyday )
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    Re: Spiral cut maple description

    Come on this is something they have used for years to mack plywood sheets
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    Re: Was this resonator mando a good idea?

    One never knows but resonator mandolins are in a class by them selfs great for jazz,blues and ragtime and If you want to be heard over the banjo
  13. Thread: Starter

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    Re: Starter

    You will get a lot of advice here including set up take your time the advanage of a cheap mandolin is you can fool around with it and if you decide you don't like it give it to a school if you don't...
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    Re: Songs for Cinco de Mayo??

    And another on AS here I come
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    Re: Songs for Cinco de Mayo??

    How about I want (you) to go home and Back home in old mexico
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    Re: Easiest, Most forgiving mandolin ?

    How do I get one of those that plays it self possibly than I could really play
  17. Thread: tremolo kit

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    Re: tremolo kit

    I don't know about a wamo bar but I have played with a distortion pedal and a wa wa pedal made some strainge sounds
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    Re: capo for mandolin?

    I just play the chords the singer requests other wise ????? I really hate it when these?? come up with keys other than the song was written in ( played with a group that the Ladys did that to every...
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    Re: Six string guitar conversion - Tenor Guitar

    Yes I reduced the neck of a garage sale guitar and removed to tuners. took off the i=6 strings and retuned GDAE It has a nice deep sound
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    Re: ukulele as a mando

    Just for kicks when people ask why My response is why not I have tuned my mandolins like a banjo and my banjo like a mandolin I don't play that well but I have fun I have change most everything...
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    Re: Tuning for slide mando?

    I do it tuned G D A E the resonator is loud and I just slide the A E strings
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    Re: Playing Bluegrass How

    Why no replay doesn't anyone here play bluegrass or just to good to reply
  23. Thread: BGplaying help

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    Re: BGplaying help

    No replys I guess no one here plays bluegrass or are to good to understand what I' m saying Time to trash the MANDOlINS and play the drums
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    Re: All Bluegrass sounds the same ?

    If someone thinks all bluegrass sounds the same they haven't heard me play My bluegrass sounds like Rap on my little mando banjo or mayby if sounds like?????????????????????
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    Playing Bluegrass How

    :( I have been playing bluegrass a couple of years with a local group. This is new music to me and It was suggested that the mandolin just played chops on the 2--4 beat, The bass player plays all 4...
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