Cafe Archives

The best to offer from past years of the Mandolin Cafe. Some of this information was originally published on the internet as early as 1995.

• Free Mandolin Cafe Case Stickers
• Mandolin Magazine Archives database
• The O'Carolan Project
• Favorite Spoofs
• Texas Swing Mandolin Chords
• Vintage Mandolin Postcards
• Are You A Bluegrass Redneck?
• 2006 LoarFest Panel Discussion sound files
• Virtual Monroe Visit
• Standard Notation
• Mandolin Glossary
• Pat's Chord Shapes
• Daniel Coolik's Mandolin History of Mandolin
• A Brief History of the Mandolin
• Vintage Gibson A Guide
• Homer & Jethro's Playing It Straight
• Homer & Jethro's It Ain't Necessarily Square
• Homer & Jethro's Kellogs Ad
• Miscellaneous Homer & Jethro Pictures
• Random Bad Bluegrass Band Namer
• Guide to Mandolin Chords on this site
• The Last Page on the Internet

Archived Lessons

• Octave Mandolin by John McGann
• A Django Reinhardt Style Mandolin Lesson by John McGann
• Texas Style fiddle tune chord progressions by Pete Martin
• Four-Finger Closed Position by Ted Eschliman
• Vamps. Creating Energy with Diatonic Triads by Ted Eschliman
• Vamps. Expanding The Diatonic Triads by Ted Eschliman
• Vamps. Scurry Dominants by Ted Eschliman
• Vamps. Circle Of Fifths by Ted Eschliman
• Vamps. Minor Modal by Ted Eschliman
• Modes made easy by Niles Hokkanen
• Pat's chord shapes by Pat McClintock
• 12 Essential Jazz Chords
• Two-finger chords
• Texas swing
• Swing guitar